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hey, can't you use something like this for your command file?

#!/bin/bash
MAILDIR="/var/spool/mail/firstname.lastname"
TEXT="hey"
DESTDIR="$HOME/Mail/hey"
find "$MAILDIR" -type f | while...

how are you doing with Lab 6? I don't believe I have to change any of the file codes he gave in the Week 8 Notes (http://spot.pcc.edu/%7Ecdjones/200804/CS140U/03%20-%20Plans/week8.html) right?

...please...?

Is there a command for finding all files on the system named ".bashrc" that modify the PS1 variable? I'd like to list the full file name(s) and the protection (including the full path).

thanks. the previous command didn't really work that well even with the correct path.

I'm trying to display the full file name (including the full path) and file size of all files whose name (excluding the path) is longer than 10 characters.

I came up with find path -type f -name...

Hey, what's the best way to use grep to list all userid's on the system that do not contain the "." character (period). Also, could I edit the same command to list all the userid's on the system that...

I'd like to list all userid's on the system that have a .bashrc file in their home directory with a command like "cat /etc/passwd | grep -f", however I'm not quite familiar with using grep. Any...

What would I have to edit in that command to get exactly what I need?

Any help developing a command to find all files on the system named ".bashrc" that modify the PS1 variable. I wanna list the full file name, including the full path, and protection. Nothing else.

Is there anyway to achieve "find /home -name "*.bashrc" 2>/dev/null" and "PS1="\n>"" in the same command? I just wanna add a line to the previous command to change the PS1 variable to ">".

BASH shell:

I'm trying to create a copy of the /etc/passwd file named "./copy-passwd" that contains only the entries for userids that have a home directory in /home/inst, and then change each...

anyone?

I believe the command I'm looking for is something like /etc/passwd | sed, but I'm not familiar with using sed to create a file by changing the properties of another file.

Is there a command for creating a copy of the /etc/passwd file named "./copy-passwd" that contains only the entries for userids that have a home directory in /home/inst, and change each entry in your...

which out of atime, ctime, or mtime are the closest to diplaying only the files created within the last 24 hours. is it even possible to find only the files created in the last 24 hours, because I...

BASH shell, I'm using the Bourne-Again shell.

What is the correct command for finding and displaying the largest file on the system?

I don't know how to specify "largest" with "find", and pipe that to something that will display the file...

I figured finding and displaying the largest file on the system would be a small and simple command that actually finds and displays only the largest file on the system.

it doesn't matter which command, I just want to find and display the contents of the biggest file without any other information.

cat, ls, find, more, or less aren't exactly doing that with | xarg...

what is the correct command for finding the largest file and displaying it without any error information?

I can find it, but how do I display it in the same command?

hey, I'm trying to create the command that will create a file named user.txt that contains the output of the command cut -d: -f1,5 /etc/passwd, and displays itself afterwards.

I don't know how to...

I'm trying to display the userid's in the /etc/passwd file, but not display any other information from the file

ls lists to much information

thanks

what command can I use to display the userid's only of a file; specifially the /etc/passwd file?