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It's just a simple script that asks the user to input their information, and confirm that the details provided are correct. [...]
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Excellent, "break" worked a treat! Many thanks.
Any suggestions as to where to find some decent tutorials on using "while" loops? I don't just want to throw a messy script together and call it quits, I actually want to learn how to do this properly?
Appreciate the quick reply though.
Let me give you a few tasks that will help you experiment toward your goal as highlighted in read
Before you utilize any input validate it as something you were expecting. e.g.
How would you validate that the user have entered a proper gender? What if the user enters "Neutral" or any other variation of modern gender answers? What if it just pressed the ENTER/Return key?
How would you validate an age? What if the user enters 159 or 0 or just the ENTER/Return key?
How would you validate a name? Would you accept "Shakespeare's Hamlet" inputted as string for a name?
I have a folder with lots of file. e.g. a.txt, b.txt, c.txt.... I want to put these files from the source directory and place them in a destination directory in a specific order, such as /destination/a/a.txt, /destination/b/b.txt, /destination/c/c.txt, ......
Please help. Thx :confused: (3 Replies)
Hey all I'm working on a script that will scour a directory of 6000+ files for a line that at the end has a number.
Something like 'The number of outputs is: 39200'
I'm trying to devise a script to add all of these numbers up, so far I have the grep statement that pulls out each individual... (7 Replies)
. ./testFile.sh
url=http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s= suf=&d=5&e=9&f=2009&g=d&a=1&b=4&c=1999&ignore=.csv
wget $url$s1$suf;
sleep 10;
cat header.txt > $s1.txt;
chmod 777 $s1.txt;
sed '1d' table.csv?s\=$s1 >> $s1.txt;
rm -Rf table*
Very new at shell scripting as you can see... (3 Replies)
Hello there
Been using Unix bash scripting for two days now so am very new to this. I am currently doing a project now and i'm basically making a noughts and crosses game (or tic tac toe).
I have created the board using an array. When I try and check to see if the array is empty using an If... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I'm new to Sheel script and I need your help for a script I need to develop (for me).
Indead, I have a software which log all entry from internet and save it in text file.
But, the log is practically unreadable because every 256 characters jump to a new line (even if the message is... (5 Replies)
1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
Arguments:
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I am given these three arguments. $1, $2, $3
The first argument is the path to a directory.
So, how would I go into the directory and compare files?
I... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a script that I wrote on a bash shell, I use it to sort files from a directory into various other directories. I have an variable set, which is an array of strings, I then check each file against the array and if it is in there the script sorts it into the correct folder.
But... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to monitor CPU load of few processes, with the same name.
The output that I get from top is the following
28171 root 20 0 1089m 21m 3608 S 103 0.3 15:16.89 /opt/ppp//h264rtptranscoder.bin --videoPort=14504 --audioPort=14505
27589 root 20 0 1060m 23m... (3 Replies)
Hi everyone,
i have the following script.sh:
foo='lsusb | grep Webcam | cut -c16-18'
sudo /home/user/public/usbreset /dev/bus/usb/001/$foo
when i try to call this script from python using subprocess.call("script.sh", shell=True) it seems that only 'sudo /home/user/public/usbreset' is being... (6 Replies)
Hi all
I have the folloing process that needs checking often:
ps -ef | grep ih
bscsrtx 206 15901 0 11:28:10 pts/6 0:00 fih -r4
bscsrtx 218 15901 0 11:28:27 pts/6 0:01 aih
bscsrtx 29763 15901 4 11:27:16 pts/6 0:59 rdh -prih
root 429 27268 0 11:30:15 pts/td ... (13 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
line
line(1) General Commands Manual line(1)NAME
line - Reads one line from standard input
SYNOPSIS
line
STANDARDS
Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry standards as follows:
line: XCU5.0
Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about industry standards and associated tags.
OPTIONS
None
DESCRIPTION
The line command copies one line, up to and including a newline, from standard input and writes it to standard output. Use this command
within a shell command file to read from your terminal. The line command always writes at least a newline character.
NOTES
The line utility has no internationalization features and is marked LEGACY in XCU Issue 5. Use the read utility instead.
EXIT STATUS
Success. End-of-File.
EXAMPLES
To read a line from the keyboard and append it to a file, enter: echo 'Enter comments for the log:' echo ': c' line >>log
This shell procedure displays the message: Enter comments for the log:
It then reads a line of text from the keyboard and adds it to the end of the file log. The echo ': c' command displays a : (colon)
prompt. See the echo command for information about the c escape sequence.
SEE ALSO
Commands: echo(1), ksh(1), read(1), Bourne shell sh(1b), POSIX shell sh(1p)
Functions: read(2)
Standards: standards(5)line(1)