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Yes you are right in both of your answers. I do need to use *.*.* and it needs to compare against the value $2.
Thankyou I got it all working :)

Yeah i got it working eventually. However when i try to use my script now it is telling me incorrect use.
So i type in
myscript file.* test.*
and i get "usage file1 file2" as if i am using it...

That's great i understand a lot better now :)
My usage is a lot better now i have done what you said but it does not like end of the if

syntax error near unexpected token `fi'

Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
I am still a bit puzzled though. The code for the existing file i don't understand how to implement this. Here is the code i have already:

#!/bin/bash

case $# in
0)...

Ha Ha
Silly me it was a typo!
The script is for files with extensions so when i was testing it yesterday i was using

q.1 q.2 q.3

not

q1 q2 q3 which has no file extensions so would not...

Yes i have tried this already. This does not give the error however does not rename the file where as yesterday when i did the
myscript q.* l.*
it would change the filename
:(

Hello,

I have created a dosrename script and it was working fine unitl today. I can't think what i have changed (don't think i have to be honest). The error is when i run the script it says the...

Hello All,
I'll try to get it right this time lol

I am trying to do some validation on my script which renames files.
The ones i am struggling with are:


e.g.

1. myscript myfile myfile2 ...

I am being rather silly today oops

Sorry typo found please ignore

sorted1 sorted2 sorted3 sorted4 etc up to sorted14

Hi,
This might seem like a really stupid question but i have created a shell script and at the end of the script i want to remove most of the file i create. So I have:

rm file[1-4] test[1-9]...

Hi,
Is there a way to get join to join 2 files even if in one file one of the records does not exist?
i.e. 1st file
aaa 50
bbb 60
2nd file
aaa 40

So i want to join the 2 files together and...

Thanks Tytalus :)
I wasn't sure weather to post my next Q in a new post as I have searched the forum for a solution but couldn't find it. Basically i want the numnbers to be rounded off to the...

Hello All,
I am trying to get the average of a set of numbers using awk. I only want to average the numbers on the first row of the file then put the average on the end of that row and then on to...

Your an absolute genius! It works perfectly!!!!
I don't really understand it all fully though. Could you explain?
Also if you wanted to do it without loops how could this be done?
I know how to...

Hi All,

I have four different files in four different directories.
Each file contains exactly the same format
logincode Forename Surname TutGroup Mark

Basically i want to grab all the marks...

I used this command and the result was blank. Here is the data i am using from a file.
13/11/07 $50 new shoes
Here is the command i have used
tr ' ' '\n' < a file | grep '^[[:alpha:]]' > temp...

Thanks a lot for the answers they really helped and was easy to understand. What about if the file had dates, money and text? As in if you wanted to extract them three seperately, but all the...

Hi All,
I have created a bourne script that basically wants to split a file up in to different parts. I have this working if the file has all the information on different lines but if it doesn't...