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bakunin
Yes! One more converted! ;-)
Seriously: i am glad you like it. What i appreciate most about Korn Shell is the possibilty to set the variable FPATH, which works similar to PATH - though not for binaries but shell functions. This way you can designate a directory with functions written in shell which you can use from any of your scripts. This way i built a "library" over the years with functions for repetitive tasks: writing a log, create/remove space for temporary files, check if the script is run with root authority ....
Sounds good i am going to get into some more scripting over the next few weeks ;-)
The important thing i like about KSH is POSIX compliant!
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You are welcome. Ask as much as you wish. Here is a tip you haven't asked: Barry Rosenberg, "KornShell Programming Tutorial" and "Hand-On KornShell93 Programmming". These are not only very good books about the topic but also great fun to read. You might want to give them a try.
I hope this helps.
bakunin
Funny you mention books I was looking at a few online today
I will add those to my book list to pick up in the near future.
Tell me bakunin, have you or do you use Conky or perhaps something else that you may suggest I look at. I have settled on Lubuntu as the Linux platform I prefer (at least at present). I have a number of Virtual machines that I run and Lubuntu if very good with low resource allocations. In the past, I have played with Solaris (when it was SUN and I liked it a great deal as a Unix Platform) and I did have a have a passing look at SUSE before Novel got hold of it.
Anyway, I digress - how this original script thread started was I was looking to use Conky to monitor some of the services I use on my HTPC Lubuntu system to so at a glance I can see if there is anything I need to give attention to...
And Stomp and other visitors are now reading and starting to roll their eyes as we have really gone off topic