On the printers script using awk, I must have got lucky. As when I do a
I get the following results
& the awk command I was using, only grabs the part I needed after the word printer.
I did read online that awk with the $0 would grab the whole line. I've never really bothered with scripting as I've always had Casper to help with MAC management, now I have some time on my hands I want to have a play with with whats under the bonnet.
It isn't that you were lucky; the script using lpstat will work perfectly. However, using:
takes more system resources and runs slower than using:
But if you need to process lines of output from awk that contain more than one "word", the default word splitting performed by:
won't work (as you found out using the output from awk '{print $0}' and found that you were processing individual words instead of entire lines).
On the other hand, read can be used in a while loop to process individual words, entire lines, or groups of individual words from lines that are being read.
I have to do a directory clean up on several machines. The task is as follows:
go to a particular directory (cd /xxx)
1. create a directory ' SCRIPTCLEANUP ' ( i KNOW IT)
loop through
2. List the directory
3. if directory and start with 'DQA' leave it,
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I need to know how I would be able to clean out the trash can of a single "dumb" user every time the MAC is turned on.
Back ground.
OS 10.3x
G3 Mac
Two users configured...
1) Root or Admin (superuser)
2) student (Simple no access to anything but shared folder for files etc.)
The problem... (4 Replies)
Hello guys,
this script partially works but it's still pretty ugly and, moreover, if the month is jan/feb/mar... it doesn't work at all.
Could anyone say me how to correct, cut and clean a little bit?
#!/usr/bin/ksh
egrep -v -e "^\s*#" /file/permission | awk '{ print $1 }' | sort | uniq... (3 Replies)
Hi,
nevermind. I think I've found the answer. It appears I was looking for index, match, sub, and gsub.
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Hi i need a unix script to do the following tasks.
My folder structure is /home/MSTR/test and will have the following folder within it
Cache
Lookup
Source
Target
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Hi,
I would like to clean up by unix mail mail box thru some script command.. I do know how to delete from mail box ...
e.g.
$ mail
? d*
? quit
But I need to clean up thru some command which I can use in my script before sending any email..
Thanks in advance! (1 Reply)
Hello All,
I need a script that would delete files which are more than "X" number of days old, also if there can be a log file of the deleted files for reference.
I am from windows background hence finding it difficult. Any help is much appreciated
Regards
Wert (4 Replies)
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