1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a really, what I hope is, simple question. I'm looking for a simple way to see whether a file exists or not and then perform an action based on whether it exists or not. An example of what I tried is as follows: if then { echo "File mysql exists" ... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Im trying to make a very simple find the first file with the .zip extension in a specific folder and open that file. The folder path and file name will vary every-time and it may contain spaces. If I try to look For this example the folder directory is /Users/username/Desktop/testfolder/abc... (6 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I would like to create a script so that it will ask me the following: 1) What is the ip address? 2) What is the gateway address? 3) What is the hostname? and then put the answer to the below kickstart file (kickstart.cfg) Here I included the kickstart.cfg: # Kickstart file... (9 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I'm trying to run a script file with multiple commands that I would normally type into the command line. The commands are: #!/bin/bash diff Test1.o0 /usr3/ronelso4/Desktop/verificationKPC/Test1.o0 > differences2 diff Test1a.o0 /usr3/ronelso4/Desktop/verificationKPC/Test1a.o0 >> differences2... (1 Reply)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I use Rsync to copy files to a remote folder in a command like this rsync -aNPHAXxrvh --protect-args --fileflags --force-change --delete $file user@remotehost:/Volumes/backup That works great with passwordless key exchange ;) Now I'm trying to open a remote file using this command ssh -q... (5 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a log file containing data on emails sent. Looks a bit like this for one email: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: 12 Jun 2008 14:04:59 +0100 From: from@email.com Subject: xcf4564xzcv To: recip@email.co.uk Size = 364 Jun 12 14:04 smtp_234sldfh.tmp I need to... (5 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all! This is my first post and I'm very new to programming. I would like help creating a simple perl or bash script that I will be using in my work as a junior bioinformatician. Essentially, I would like to take a tab-delimted or .csv text with 3 columns and write them to a "3D" matrix: ... (16 Replies)

8. Homework & Coursework Questions

This is the problem: Write a script that will make a backup of a file giving it a ‘.bak’ extension & verify that it works. I have tried a number of different scripts that haven't worked and I haven't seen anything really concise and to the point via google. For brevity's sake this is one of the... (4 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello guys, im new to to unix/linux i have a text file like this: person1@test.com iisiiasasas person2@test.com 123w2 3233 sajsja person3@test.com jsajjsa sajsjasaj person4@test.com I want to extract only e-mail address and get rid of all other stuff, i want an output like this ... (4 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

We have the data looks like below in a log file. I want to generat files based on the string between two hash(#) symbol like below Source: #ext1#test1.tale2 drop #ext1#test11.tale21 drop #ext1#test123.tale21 drop #ext2#test1.tale21 drop #ext2#test12.tale21 drop #ext3#test11.tale21 drop... (5 Replies)