1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I am very new to UNIX and Shell scripting, I need to run a script to check for file's and directoires permissions and change the permissions if necessary. I appreciate your help.. Thanks (7 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello; I have a directory that is collecting log and act files. I need to write a script that will remove these files once they are 30 days old. I have read through a number of threads on this site that have given me a great deal of information. However I have what seems to be a unique... (7 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

From within a directory, how do I determine whether I have write permission for it. test -w pwd ; echo ? This doesn't work as it returns false, even though I have write permission. (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a script called check.sh. I have to pass a file as input to this script. How can I validat whether the file has read permissions or not within the script. Thanks in advance (1 Reply)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Can you help me to find a way to check that the level of the permissions givven to Others is not higher then the permission given to Group that is not higer from Owner permissions ? (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm new in Unix shell scripting and i need someone to help me to make Script that run all time watching my directory that files uploaded to it via FTP (/mydir/incoming_files), if any files exists in it then (if many files exists, then sort files and load them ascending) it‘ll checks the size of the... (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Is their a way to check the read and execute permission on a file on OTHERS and GROUP rwxr--r-x I am trying something like: if ( || ) then .... fi The code above only checks the permissions of the owner of the file but not for the GROUP and OTHERS. I will really... (5 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello. The last days I extended an open-source C++ library by some faster functions. This library provides a lot of short test programs which guarantee that the library works exactly. The compilation of each test works in a Makefile automatically. What I need is a shell script which... (5 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, How do i check if I have read/write/execute rights on a UNIX directory? What I'm doing is checking read access on the files but i also want to check if user has rights on the direcory in whcih these files are present. if then...... And I check if the directory exists by using... (6 Replies)

10. Solaris

we want to allow user to FTP files into a directory, and then the program (PLSQL) will read and process the file, and then move the file to other directory for archiving. the user id: uftp1, group: ftp the program run in oracle database, thus have the user Id: oraprod, group: dba how to... (2 Replies)