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I am running CentOs 5 and every time i try to restart my iptables "service iptables restart", I get this error message:

Flushing firewall rules: [ OK ]...

Ok heres my problem. I was in vi editing a quotaname.1.gz file and everything was working fine. Now when I try to vi or even cat that same file or any files for that matter in the same directory...

Can you use an if [ test ] statement after an else?

example

if [ -O $1 ]
then
echo "word"
else

if [ -O $2 ]
then
echo "word"

when I run my program and enter 2 arguments at the command line it is not checking to see if the 2 arguments are files or not.

I have tried

if [ -f filename ]
elif [ -f $1 -o $2 ]

I guess I...

I am trying to test arguments to see if they are files in any directory.

I have :
[ $# -f 0 ]

but it's not working

What is the symbol for "or" ?

I am trying to say: enter Y or y

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I have this while loop and at the end I am trying to get it to tell me the last argument I entered. And with it...

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I am running a test command and if the user is not found you have to type exit and it wiil exit. Ok I did that. But...

I am running a test command and if the user is not found you have to type exit and it wiil exit. Ok I did that. But if the user is found it is supposed to finger them. But my problem is it makes...

that worked except now when it counts down it stops at 2.
5
4
3
2

The last command line you entered is $1.

Can I get the 1 back? So it reads

5
4
3
2
1

The last command line you...

I have this while loop and at the end I am trying to get it to tell me the last argument I entered. And with it like this all I get is the sentence with no value for $1. Now I tried moving done...

thanks that worked.

I am trying to print command line arguments one per second. I have this

while [ $# -gt 0 ]
do

echo "6"
shift
echo "5"
shift
echo "4"
shift
echo "3"
shift
echo "2"
shift
echo "1"...

Hi I need help putting these directions in a shell script. The directions are:

The text: Please enter a user name to find. THe program then checks to see if the user exists on the system and if...