1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, Today, as a root user, i want to copy recursively all files and diretories in a source directory to a destination directory using the following command, cp -r /home/smith/* /home/bob/ However, I carelessly missed the '*' out when I executed the command. Now, i noticed a... (1 Reply)

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Hi Gurus, I had a question regarding avoiding duplicates.i have a file abc.txt abc.txt ------- READER_1_1_1> HIER_28056 XML Reader: Error occurred while parsing:; line number ; column number READER_1_3_1> Sun Mar 23 23:52:48 2008 READER_1_3_1> HIER_28056 XML Reader: Error occurred while... (0 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Below is my menu options code. It allows user to pick one of two option. I can get the first option to work, because if it is selected it just "breaks" and carries on with the script. What i want to know is if a user selects option two how do i get that option to ignore all the other script and... (6 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hello all i have a big problems for me if i have more files as example test.ghrt.part01.rar test.ghrt.part02.rar test.ghrt.part03.rar test.ghrt.part04.rar test.ghrt.part05.rar test.ghrt.part06.rar test.ghrt.part07.rar test.ghrt.part08.rar test.ghrt.part09.rar test.ghrt.part10.rar... (13 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

the idea is to create script with menu and when option 1 or2 is pressed program should clear screan display info and get back to menu.... I managed some code but getting errors... #!/bin/bash choice1=ls -l|awk'{print $9 $1}' choice2= ls | wc -c choice3=exit while do clear echo "... (8 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

EDIT : System used : Any Linux distribution. Hello everyone, I m having quite a headache trying to figure out why I m having a 2 columns output in the following code : #!/bin/ksh menu_rotation() { #Variables CHOIX1="Rotation 1" CHOIX2="Rotation 2" CHOIX3="Rotation 3" ... (11 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi all i am a newbie to this is there any examples on creating a main menu with 3 sub menu main menu -> option a , b and c a menu -> option 1 ,2 and 3 b menu -> option 1 ,2 c menu -> option 1 ,2 i am getting headache as my code kept getting unexpected EOF ---------- Post... (0 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi all i am trying to get help with writing a script using case statement to display menu as 1) Authentication log 2) System log 3) Messages 4) Dmesg 5) Boot log Q) Exit When selecting the menu by 1 or 2 or 3 o 4 or 5, it should display the last 10 lines of the log files, if... (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a special case that awk could be used but I do not have the skill. Trying to create a final output file (indel_parse.txt) that is created from using some information from each of the two files (attached). parse rules: The header is skipped FNR>1 1. 4 zeros after the NC_ (not... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I have a question regarding while loop and existence of files. I am running under ubuntu 18.04 bionic, have around fifty video files inside the directory. script: for file in *.mp4 do /root/bin/ffmpeg -i $file \ -i $(basename "${file/.mp4}").bs.srt \ -i $(basename... (12 Replies)