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Think this is a pretty simple problem, but I've been thinking about it for a few days. Let's say that I'm going to have to output the contents of a file as the body of a mailx message.
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I'm interested in knowing more about setting up the sudoers file... hope to receive some advice here.

Let's say that I have 3 users, with usernames user1, user2 and user3. The...

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I'm in need of some help in coming up with this command which requires me to append 5 strings together:

1. echo "Status from system:"
2. `cat logs.txt` (i need the output of...

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Is there a way to prevent users from being able to execute commands less a select few? For instance, I wish to allow the user to be only able to execute 1 command, which is exec a.sh. He...

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How can I check if a particular user id belongs to a group?

(ie. how to check if the current user `whoami` is part of the a certain group? do i use the group name of group id?)
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I'm currently making use of the $HOME/.ssh/rc file to launch an automated shell script immediately after the user has been verified through ssh.

The current problem that I'm...

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I'll just like to know if it is possible to launch a shell script automatically upon a user's successful login into ssh from a remote host, without adding a command parameter to the...

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Seems like I've been looking into the wrong things... my apologies on that. Here's a description of the real deal:

Consider having a line which resembles this in your script file:

ssh...

Hmm... care to show some examples?

I'm using more in the command more "$rootdir/batchfile.log", so is this syntax correct within ssh, or must I add more quotes?

Alright, managed to fix the TERM environment bug...

Add the following as the 1st 3 lines of your script

#!/bin/ksh
TERM=xterm
export TERM

However, I'm still puzzled as to why the "more"...

It's alright to have ssh in interactive mode, though I'm running into some environment trouble after ssh-ing into the shell...

Seems like I'm getting the message "TERM environment variable not...

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Just like to ask if it is possible to do the following:

1. Have a shell script that calls ssh username@destinationhost
2. Upon successful verification, we ssh into the destination host...

Hey, thanks a bunch guys! Wouldn't have foreseen this since I'm more of a Java and C programmer than a shell scripter :)

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I'm having a rather peculiar problem involving parameter passing with declared functions in my shell script. Hope to get some advice here.

A brief description of my code is as follows:...

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I'm in the midst of writing a login component for a series of shell scripts. What my login script does is this:

1. Prompt for username and read in username
2. Prompt for...

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I'm pretty new to the use of mailx, having been using mutt most of the time. I'm interested to know how I can use mailx within a shell script to send out a formatted email with the...

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I'm interested in printing out only the prefix of a formatted set of filenames. All files of this type have the same 8 character suffix. I'm using KSH.

Is there a command I could use to...

Suppose that I want to allow the user to have a choice between:

1. Terminating the shell completely
2. Or closing the subshell and going back to the previous shell script that called it.

How...

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How can I use sed to perform a substitution if the string that I'm going to substitute is stored in a variable:

Let's say:

sed 's/abcdefg/good'

VS

tmp="abcdefg"
sed...

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I have a shell script which calls other shell scripts, depending on the input.

Within a.sh, I have a command which calls b.sh (ie. ksh b.sh)

Normally, we use the exit function to...

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I'm currently writing a shell script menu which is dynamically populated from an array. Have a question to ask about the filtering of invalid input. I'm using KSH.

A brief...

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I've been getting a little frustrated over my scripts as I'm not too experienced with powerful commands such as awk and sed. Hope to find some guidance here.

I need to extract...