Search Results

BEGIN{
printf ("%s\t%s\t%s\t\n", "First Char", "Last Char", "Total Chars");
}
{
chars = split($1, line, //);
charline = line[chars];
firstchar = line[1];
...

the uid displays as the number and not the username...how do i get the username instead of the number?

yea that does make more sense...thanks!

#!/bin/bash

echo "UserName PID Command"
ps -ef > ps.temp
grep '^[a-z]\{2,3\}[0-9]\{4\}' ps.temp > ps.temp2
cut -f1,2,8 ps.temp2
rm ps.temp*

I am having some problems with the cut...

thanks a lot :)

#!/bin/bash

dnum=0
cd rc.d

while [ $dnum -le "6" ]
do

echo "rc$dnum.d outputs"

egrep -r '^[K|S][0-9][0-9][a-z]+' rc$dnum.d | sort -n +3

((dnum++))
done
...

{ printf "%s %6.2f\n", UserName, pay > payroll_report | sort -nk2 payroll_report; }

this is what I have but it doesnt write the payroll_report file and gives a syntax error for the pipe...help??

if [ $i -le $c ]
then
echo "Creating Backups..."

if [ -f $f.1 ]
then
cp -v $f.$i $f.$j
...

how would i go about creatng a backup of a file everytime a script is run so that the next time it is run the old backup gets pushed back and the most recent backup is 1st.
(new)backup.1...

Is it possible to redirect errors at the command line when you run the script such as bash scriptname & 2>/dev/null?

thanks worked!

Accept command line input of a directory
keep a .logfile of the contents of the directory inputed
if a .logfile does not exist create one for the file that is missing a .logfile and create a...

#!/bin/bash
{ [ $# -ge 1 ] && [ $# -le 5 ]; } || {
echo "Must enter between 1 and 5 parameters"
exit 1
}

for P
do
echo $P >> /tmp/task3
done

echo "SORTED: $(sort...

#!/bin/bash

[ $# -eq 1 ] || {
echo "Must Input Date: mm/dd/yyyy"
exit 1
}

FDATE="$1"
OLDIFS="$IFS"
IFS="/"
set $1
IFS="$OLDIFS"

[ $# -eq 3 ] || {
echo "Must...

nvm on the errors just noticed i was missing that quote!

yeah not looking for an input line want it right off the command line. (shell scriptname date)

i'm trying to use IFS and separate the input by the "/". script currently looks like...
#!/bin/bash...

when i input a month of 13 now i get it bumped to january. i do the input from the command line, so i need to read the month from there and determine if it is over 12 and display an error stating...

thanks. that worked. do you know how I would make it work so if 13 was inputed as the month it would print an error?

FILENAME=$( find -type f )
CHARS=$( wc -m $FILENAME )
echo "$FILENAME $CHARS"

put that in the do and it worked

xargs...not what i was looking for
i figured it out.
thanks tho

Running bash how do I input the date in the command line like 3/20/90 and get an output formmated like March, 20 1990.

Write a simple for loop that processes each file in the present working directory (PWD) and outputs the filename and number of characters in that file. Hint, you will use the cat and wc commands. ...