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Old 03-19-2017
Help with creating a simple shell script

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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:

Write a shell script that accepts two arguments. The two arguments are the
name of 2 files.
• If the arguments are not 2, display “need 2 arguments” and quit.
• If one or both of the arguments are directory, display “No directories
please” and quit.
• If one of the two files does not exist, display “filename: no such file” where
filename is the name of the missing file, then quit. If the two files do not
exist, repeat the above for the 2 files, each in a separate line and quit.
• If the 2 files do exist, then display one of the two phrases, “The two files
are identical” or “The two files are not identical” then quit.




3. The attempts at a solution (include all code and scripts):

Code:
{
printf "%s\n" "$1"
cat "$2"
} > tempfile.$$
mv tempfile.$$ "$2"



4. Complete Name of School (University), City (State), Country, Name of Professor, and Course Number (Link to Course):

Concodia University, Toronto, Canada , Hamza, CS1032

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Last edited by Scrutinizer; 03-20-2017 at 01:57 AM.. Reason: code tags
 

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MKCOVER(8)						      System Manager's Manual							MKCOVER(8)

NAME
mkcover - HylaFAX continuation cover page generation command SYNOPSIS
/var/spool/hylafax/bin/mkcover qfile template result DESCRIPTION
bin/mkcover is the command invoked by the facsimile server when a continuation cover page is required for an outbound job that is about to be retried. It generates a single POSTSCRIPT(R) page that is imaged according to the remote capabilities and transmitted as the cover page. The arguments are: qfile the job description file for the outbound job. template the cover page template file, as used by the faxcover(1) program. result the filename where the resultant POSTSCRIPT document should be written. The default mkcover command is a shell script that uses awk(1) to parse the job description file and generate the cover page document. The template file may be optionally compressed with compress(1), pack(1), or gzip(1); the filename suffix is used to decide whether or not the template file contains compressed data. SEE ALSO
faxq(8), hylafax-config(5), sendq(5) June 20, 1994 MKCOVER(8)
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