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Feels like self learning more than anything, plus I am a special case I use to work in their web development section using .NET, so I request a change in departments to do something more...

I did ask why I can’t use SED and AWK, the answer I got and I quote “we want our trainee's to learn more about the operating system to start with, and when we feel that you’re comfortable with...

Sorry if I caused confusion on what I am trying to achieve
1) I need to find out users currently logged on to the system.
2) I need to find out what processes they are running.
3) I need to print...

thx again, its work, but i am not allowed to use awk :o

there must being a simpler way to view logged in users and what processes they are running :confused:

thx again.

how would i feed the usernames of the currently logged in users to the userID variable?

here are a few line from the /etc/passwd

jasmeet.manik:x:1422:100:Jasmeet Manik:/home/jasmeet.manik:/bin/bash
pascal.morano:x:1423:100:Pascal Morano:/home/pascal.morano:/bin/bash...

yay it works, thank you vgersh99 :D

thx for the quick reply

now i get

userID->[] username->[uucp]

am bit confused on what junk does here :confused:

am getting this

userID->[] username->[Michael Jackson]

and its printed for all users, and there is no useID

is junk used to ignore or...

cool, thx man :b:

I have a question though, this programme will be ran by a few people, if one of those people where to change a process name or amend a users name, will this outcome be effected?

that did the trick thx, now i guess i must link the the user IDs to the name some how :eek:

Thx for all the help so far, I really appreciate it, this is the last task I have to do then I am no longer a trainee ^^, which means I can use whatever utility I want. :O

I need to write a script...

that help me out a LOT, thank you, thank you all :b:

i assume he is doing this, because he wants me to grasp some concepts, he did say i can use sed and awk once am confirtable doing stuff without them :rolleyes:

i have only being using unix for...

i have to start someware ;)

I started working here last week, and it’s a trainee position, where I am expected to under take a course which is involves doing these tedious tasks as part of the job, my boss is kinda my teacher,...

how would i search the strings like rwxr-wr--, or put it in a variable. if i can achieve this i can just search the string for certain characters and print out statment based on those characters.

I could do this easy with awk, but my unreasonable employer wont let me use with awk or sed :(.

He wants a simple script to view it with yes no so other non IT related departments can understand...

Hi
I am trying to use shell script to display file permissions, and I can do it fine for the current user logged in, but now I want to view all file permissions for the Owner of the file, Group...

thanks everyone for your help it works like a charm now. :D

ok i am using this now, it works fine, but all i need to do is restrict the lines shown by a user, so am trying it with $USER for now.

#!/bin/bash/

x=0
while read line
do
x=$((x+1))
echo...

if it was only that simple porter :cool:

if am not using SED or Awk, i have no idea what am doing in these situations.

Trying out grep and am confused as hell
I am using $user to save time.
Is this a valid method? xx is the file with contents

grep –i xx $user

So form what am reading I need to use pipes...

This is looks like something I can :)

I have a question though, the “while read line” statement, how does this get information from the file, is it from this “done < "file"”?.

sorry if am...

Assume xx is the file with the relevant contents.
#!/bin/bash
Lines = wc-l << xx /* the number of lines from the file */
Number=0
while (($Number > $lines+1))
do
Number=$(($Number+1)) ...