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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Referencing a range of parameters? Post 50787 by Relykk on Sunday 2nd of May 2004 05:11:01 PM

05-02-2004

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I thought I had it pretty much all set minus some minor modifications, but I guess I was wrong. All I'm trying to do is write a simple script that will append the text from one file to the beginning of all files I list as parameters.

What I am attempting is to be able to type the command:

$ myScript file1 file2...file10

and have the contents of file1 appended to each of the files listed after. Obviously, if there are less than two parameters an error must be generated, which I have accomplished successfully. I just don't know how to get the script to ignore the first parameter as part of the loop. I think that is my only real problem other than the error I'm getting in regards to the else statement part of my script.

Am I at least in the right ballpark with this one, or just plain lost in sauce?

#!/bin/bash

if [ $# -lt 2 ]
then
echo "Error: insufficient number of parameters."
exit 1
fi

until [ $# -eq 0 ]
do
if [ ! -rw $1 ] then;
echo "Error: permission denied."
else
cat $1 $* > /tmp/tfile
mv /tmp/tfile $*
shift
fi
done
exit 0

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NAME

       uudemon.admin,  uudemon.cleanu,	uudemon.hour,  uudemon.poll  -	Administrative shell scripts for polling remote systems, cleaning up spool
       directories, reporting status to the system administrator, and routine invocations of the uuxqt and uusched daemons

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       All the scripts can be run from the command line or can be run automatically by the cron daemon. To automatically run the  scripts,  remove
       the comment character (#) from the beginning of the relevant line in the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/uucp file.

       This  script  reports  status  to  the system administrator. It issues the uustat command to find out the status of uucp jobs. It mails the
       results to the uucp login ID. The script may be modified to send mail to any login ID such as the uucp administrative login ID  (uucpa)	or
       root.  This script cleans up the /var/spool/uucp and /var/spool/uucppublic directories by running the uucleanup command. The uucleanup com-
       mand is run with the following parameters: -C7, -D7, X2, -o2, -W1.  This script runs the uusched and uuxqt daemons in the background.  This
       script  polls  the  systems  listed  in	the  /usr/lib/uucp/Poll file.  The uudemon.poll script should be scheduled before the uudemon.hour
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FILES

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RELATED INFORMATION

       Commands: cron(8), uucleanup(8), uusched(8), uuxqt(1)

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