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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using the Finger command in a Script Post 44219 by apolishuk on Tuesday 2nd of December 2003 11:57:17 AM
Old 12-02-2003
Using the Finger command in a Script

This is my senario.....

The user enters a userid into linux.
((I have have already scripted the command to read this userid.))

I need help in writing the script so It reads the userID and in conjuction w/ the finger command displays to the user "no plan" on the screen (so the user reads/sees "no plan"). I hope I am explaining this good enough. Im a beginner. Please help!

Thanks
Aaron
 

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MAKE_SHA1(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      MAKE_SHA1(8)

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NAME
make_sha1 - Generate SHA1 checksums for given set of users. SYNOPSIS
make_sha1 [ -C config-file ] [ -D md5_dir ] [ -k count ] [ -f input_file ] [ -m offset ] [ -M modulo ] [ -v ] [ userid... ] DESCRIPTION
Generate SHA1 checksums for messages given set of users. Works as incremental update: reads in existing set of SHA1 checksums from sha1_dir/u/userid (hashed on first letter of userid) if that file exists. Scans account looking for new messages, and then updates record. The SHA1 checksums which are generated are used to test integrity of the master, replica and backup systems on Hermes. OPTIONS
-C config-file Read configuration options from config-file. -D sha1_dir Read and write SHA1 checksums from sha1_dir, overrides configuration file setting of the same name. -k count Concurrency level: run up to count asynchronous child processes. -f input_file List of accounts to process: use in place of command line arguments. -m offset Regenerate given fraction of the user database in combination with -M below. -M modulo Regenerate SHA1 checksums for given fraction of user database. Allows for rolling consisency checks. -v Verbose mode. FILES
/etc/imapd.conf AUTHORS
David Carter (dpc22@cam.ac.uk) CMU
Project Cyrus MAKE_SHA1(8)
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