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i want to count the number of words in a file and then redirect this to a file


echo 'total number of words=' wc -users>file


THis isnt working, anyone any ideas.

yeah i dont think im getting the right one. i want the one ps with no options gives u but for all the users. my trouble then is going to be printing there real name along with there processes, anyone...

I am trying to write a script to list all users and their processes. I cant seem to find out how to link the PID to the user. For example if i run ps -a I get a nice list of all the processes running...

yeah thats what i did thanks man

Got It Workng Woohoo

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this is the only way i can think of to do this but there must be a better way or else im gonna end up writing 200 lines of copy and pasting code.


echo ' READ WRITE EXECUTE'


own=$(ls -al $1...

grep `whoami` $1 >> file

this lets me take out the username from a file and then i move it to a file but i need it to do one step at a time because i want the occurences to be numbered like
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learning unix online, then i send off scripts to be corrected. and they said not to use awk or sed

can it be done without using sed or awk?

zsh 4.3.4%

what does that do? i cant use sed or awk

whoami | grep < $1 | echo $1

trying to write a script that finds out who the user is and then takes occurences of that username from a file that is passed as an argument and then displays it

What do you want to insert?
I want to insert the first argument, which will be a line of text

Where do you want to insert it?
In the middle of the second argument which is a text file


What...

#!/bin/bash
echo $1 | cat - $2 >> /tmp/$$ && mv /tmp/$$ $2

im trying to get the first argument to go in the middle of the second argument which is a file, anyone any ideas. i have only managed to...

not allowed use awk or sed

yeah i know but i want to save the output to the file of the second argument? any ideas

#!/bin/bash
$1 | cat >> - $2

I am trying to write a script that takes that takes two arguments. The first being a line of text, the second being a file you create. The script should take the...

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sh filename

and it gives me an error saying the file doesnt exist but it definately does.

Is it possible to pass a string as an argument from the command line?

I know I can pass a word in but can I put a line of text in with spaces and fullstops or do I just put it in brackets or...

Ok so i had to create a file and put some random text into it which i did.

THen u make a script which takes 2 arguments.

The first being a line of text, the second being your newly created...