Need a bash script that will ask the user: Which Files Would you like to copy?
Then the user would input the filenames (space seperated, all lowercase)
The script would then cp each file to /data/backup/ and also wc the files to std output. (to see how many lines each file has)
Should go something like this...
if my user has to enter the name of months to carry out a search how can I limit the input values to only the month names and nothing else?
so far my input criteria for the user is this:
i would like it so the user can only enter the months in the way i have stated. otherwise they would... (11 Replies)
Hi,
Lets say I have a script "ss" which does this
read abc
echo $abc
read pqr
echo $pqr
Now if I want to pass and argument to only "abc" how do I do it.
If I do
echo "somevalue" | ss, it does not prompt for pqr and its value comes out as blank.
Any help is appreciated
Thanks
P (6 Replies)
I need to write what I thought would be a fairly simple 2-line UNIX script. It can be written PERL, csh, ksh...or whatever is easiest.
The entire script will be:
Begin Scipt
source MySourceFile
execute MyExecutable.exe
End Script
The problem is that MySourceFile can not be... (1 Reply)
Hi Friends,
I am wrinting a shell script MorningChecks.sh which will call another script StartServer.sh. But the latter script requires user's inputs to complete. I want to automate this.
So can you please let me how this can be achieved?
Any help would be highly appereciated.
... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am using solari 10 OS which is having bash shell.
I need a shell script which takes user home directory and name of the file or directory as a input and based on that copy the files accordingly to the other directory.
example:I hava a machine1 which is having some files in a... (8 Replies)
I want a script that will prompt a user to enter 10 numbers and out put them into a file. This what I have so far, but isn't working. I'm guessing it's something easy I'm not seeing. Thanks for any help.
#!/usr/bin/ksh
echo "Enter 10 numbers"
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
do
read .... ... (8 Replies)
Hi,
Am trying to store the user inputs into a file, but the below code will store only the first line of the values. I need to store all the user input values which may contain one or more lines. Thanks in advance.
echo "please enter file names";
read name;
echo $name>/tmp/test (11 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
1) I really cannot figure out how to pass multiple user inputs in a script. really need your help re this. below is the script.
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#!/bin/sh
# script name: ask.sh
echo "Enter name: \c"
read NAME
echo "Your name is $NAME\n"
echo "Enter age: \c"
read AGE
echo... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I am new to awk and I am trying to figure out how to print an output based on user input.
For example:
ubuntu:~/scripts$ steps="step1, step2, step3"
ubuntu:~/scripts$ echo $steps
step1, step2, step3
I am playing around and I got this pattern that I want:
... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am new to bash scripting and i wanted to make a bash script that will generate a password for a user. The user must enter his/her name and the url of the site the password is used for. And the script will generate a password with those two elements in the password. So if the url is... (0 Replies)
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shtool-echo
SHTOOL-ECHO.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-ECHO.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-echo - GNU shtool echo(1) extensional command
SYNOPSIS
shtool echo [-n|--newline] [-e|--expand] string
DESCRIPTION
shtool echo is an echo(1) style command which prints string to stdout and optionally provides special expansion constructs (terminal bold
mode, environment details, date, etc) and newline control. The trick of this command is that it provides a portable -n option and hides the
gory details needed to find out the environment details under option -e.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-n, --newline
By default, output is written to stdout followed by a "newline" (ASCII character 0x0a). If option -n is used, this newline character is
omitted.
-e, --expand
If option -e is used, string can contain special "%x" constructs which are expanded before the output is written. Currently the
following constructs are recognized:
%B switch terminal mode to bold display mode.
%b switch terminal mode back to normal display mode.
%u the current user name.
%U the current user id (numerical).
%g the current group name.
%G the current group id (numerical).
%h the current hostname (without any domain extension).
%d the current domain name.
%D the current day of the month.
%M the current month (numerical).
%m the current month name.
%Y the current year.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool echo -n -e "Enter your name [%B%u%b]: "; read name
shtool echo -e "Your Email address might be %u@%h%d"
shtool echo -e "The current date is %D-%m-%Y"
HISTORY
The GNU shtool echo command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 1998 for Website META Language (WML)
under the name buildinfo. It was later taken over into GNU shtool.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), echo(1).
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