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Thanks, works a treat.

Oliver

Apologies, just wasen't sure which forum was appropriate, and also which one receives more attention.

Again, apologies

Oliver

Hi guys,

Probably an easy one, but how do you sort a directory so that the files come first, then subdirectories?

ie ./dir1 contains

file 1
subdir 1
file 2

i need it to become

file 1...

Hi guys,

Probably an easy one, but how do you sort a directory so that the files come first, then subdirectories?

ie ./dir1 has

file 1
subdir 1
file 2

i need it to become

file 1...

Excellent, just what i was looking for!

Much appreciated

Oliver

Hi guys

I'm trying to move an empty directory to the $TRASH directory. Say the directory i have is ./hello/hello1/hello2 and i'm in hello2, and i want hello2 moved.

this code:...

Hi guys,

I've been trying to get this part of my script to work for ages and now it's getting me annoyed!! So i thought a fresh group of eyes could see where i'm going wrong!

The idea is...

Thats a really useful script Jack, saved me quite a few times now ;)

Did you by any chance finish it so that it does all the directories stuff? ie the

rm -ir foldername
?

Thanks in...

No problem!

#!/bin/bash
AUTHOR=`grep $USER /etc/passwd | cut -d":" -f5`
DATE=`date '+%Y/%m/%d'`
read DESCRIPTION
cat << END
#!/bin/sh
####################################
## Program :...

Hi jim
Thanks for the interest, it was when starting a new file in vi to automatically insert the header, but i worked it out.

Thanks though

Oliver

hi
Is there any way to automatically insert a predefined header into a file?
It would include the file name, author name, date and a description, the description entered on the first line of vi.
...

Hi all,

I'm trying to assign values to multiple variables, is there a way i can just change the number of the variable? ie

read$num=YES
write$num=NO
ex$num=YES

where the $num can be...

Ok, so i got the CASE working, but it won't accept the variable i put in!

Can someone tell me why it won't work? It just keeps falling to the catchall case, but if i use $2 instead it works fine?...

Hi

I'm trying to display the permissions, owner and group of a file. So far so good!

Script 4
#To determine the permissions, owner and group of a file
#Syntax: script4 filename

LINE=`ls...

Thanks tmarikle!
There is 1 problem for each code you gave me:

1st code:
I get a 'nawk does not exist' error, changing it to awk works but i'm thinking that the nawk adds the users name above...

Hi guys,

I'm writing a script to display all the current logged on users and the processes they're running, output to a file. The output will look similar to this:

User1 (Real name not login...

Thanks for the advice

Thanks Apoorva, this works great! As for the first question, if the owner name isn't cut short with you, maybe the columns are too small on mine, is there any way to widen...

Hi,

I'm trying to assign the permissions, owner and group of a file to seperate variables, but using

ls -l filename | awk '{print $1 "\t" $3 "\t" $4}'

gives the owner as tom.ja instead of...