Its been a minute since i've been here, but i finally figured it out. Here is the end result:
something about the while loop wasn't working. I had it echo the filepath before it began and that showed me that although running the find by itself as suggested showed all the files, the second time through the loop it returned an empty string instead of the next item in the list.
That's when I decided to put it in an array and loop through it. Thanks for the help, especially that first bit with the comments showing what each line did. Helped me crack the code so to speak
I'm new to Unix. I'm just looking for really good unix documents through Internet as pdf format on programming in all shells, and system adminstrator documents, and well as just all around really good documents on unix.
Thank you (5 Replies)
hello everyone, i am still trying to get this script to work, but with no luck. It is a little beyond my knowledge of scripting at the moment. The beginner book i have has an exercise listed that asks me to write a script tha allows for user input.
For example " what is your name: " and then you... (3 Replies)
I was wondering if someone could tell me where I could learn everything about Unix/Linux
and I was also wondering what the differance between Unix and Linux was :confused:
Ive never used it, never seen it.. But Im interested in learning :D (3 Replies)
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Hi friends,
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hi guys,
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Hi there,
im just having a hard time understanding why this code does not print anything that is suppose to print:
score = raw_input ('what is your score? \n')
try:
if 1.0 == float(score) >= 0.9:
print "A"
elif 0.9 > float(score) >= 0.8:
... (1 Reply)