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Thank you. That worked perfectly. I owe you a beer. :)

Hmmm... Bash doesn't parse whitespace with a read.

lev@sys09:~$ read line; echo "$line"
test
test


You can imagine what this does if you're using a shell script to read a list of unknown...

I'm not voting because:

a) It's a horses for courses
and
b) I can't make up mind ;-)

What does surprise me that the "shiny-shiny" kid on the block, which is doing very well on HPD on...

There's something about Ian's partner that you seem to have inside knowledge of. Pun not intended.

Sheesh! Call yourselves unix geeks!?! Where's the coffee?! ;-)

(For something stronger, I prefer cognac)..

A mismatch in tar versions can cause this.

Also, if you're dealing with a text file can I recommend compressing the file? Tar doesn't compress, it simply creates an archive.

bin and daemon are users. 'nologin' is precisely that; the effect is that nobody can login with the user bin or daemon. Which is a very good idea.

The following may help:

[Chapter 4] Users,...

These are fairly clear instructions and examples.

I agree that scp's syntax can be a little odd at times if you're new to it.

scp (http://amath.colorado.edu/computing/software/man/scp.html)

If they have "no experience" I would humbly suggest that they're a user, rather than any of the above. ;)

Apropos the original question I would give a qualified recommendation to Teach Yourself...

Thanks for nothing.

:rolleyes:

You know that doesn't work. bash/sh use if/fi constructs whilst csh uses if/endif for starters. As I said in the first post ;)

Not in this case.



Which is what I requested in the first post.

Because some users (boffins) want it. More than one person will use this script, and some are pretty tied to their preferred shell, and ne'er reason nor rhyme will convince them otherwise.

I...

This is actually quite a famous problem. I quote verbatim from "Classic Shell Scripting"



And here's the code, right from the book



#! /bin/sh
# Read a text stream on standard input, and...

... Am I glad to find this forum (and vBulletin too, nice!)..

OK, here's my issue. I have been handballed a bash script, not pretty but functional. I need to change to csh and zsh. For the csh I...