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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Basic help improving for in loop Post 302904290 by bacarrdy on Tuesday 3rd of June 2014 09:53:46 AM
Old 06-03-2014
you want to do somethink like this? i dont understand what you cant to do
Code:
for dirs in $(ls /Users | grep -v Shared | grep -v shared_space) do

if [[ -d "/Users/$dirs" && ! -L "/Users/$dirs" ]]; then
#copy the config file from source to destination
/bin/cp "/Applications/tn3270 X.app/tn3270 preferences" /Users/$dirs/Library/Preferences/;
chown $dirs:$dirs /Users/$dirs/Library/Preferences/tn3270\ preferences;
fi;

done


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Mod Comment Please use code tags next time for your code and data. Thanks

Last edited by vbe; 06-03-2014 at 11:05 AM..
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ncurses5.4-config(1)					    BSD General Commands Manual 				      ncurses5.4-config(1)

NAME
ncurses5.4-config -- report configuration and linking information for ncurses SYNOPSIS
ncurses5.4-config {--prefix | --exex-prefix | --cflags | --libs | --version | --abi-version | --mouse-version | --bindir | --datadir | --lib- dir | --mandir | --terminfo | --terminfo-dirs | --termpath } DESCRIPTION
The ncurses5.4-config utility reports ncurses configuration and linking information. The options are as follows: ---prefix Reports package-prefix ncurses5.4-config was installed with ---exec-prefix Reports executable-prefix ncurses5.4-config was installed with ---cflags Reports C compiler flags needed to compile with ncurses ---libs Reports libraries needed to link with ncurses ---version Reports release+patchdate version ncurses5.4-config was installed with ---abi-version Reports ABI version ncurses5.4-config was installed with ---mouse-version Reports mouse-interface version ncurses5.4-config was installed with ---bindir Reports directory containing ncurses5.4-config programs ---datadir Reports directory containing ncurses5.4-config data ---libdir Reports directory containing ncurses5.4-config libraries ---mandir Reports directory containing ncurses5.4-config manpages ---terminfo Reports $TERMINFO terminfo database path ---terminfo-dirs Reports $TERMINFO_DIRS directory list ---termpath Reports $TERMPATH termcap list EXIT STATUS
The ncurses5.4-config utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. BSD
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