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Thanks sorry it took so long to respond. That is a big help. Also I just used sleep and set a default time interval of 10 minutes.

I have a script I want to run in the background, and I have looked it up but I am not exactly sure how to do. First of all to run it in the background do you have to put something in the script or...

Thanks a bunch. If I have any other questions I will be sure to ask.

I need to find what users are currently logged onto the system that is easy just a simple who | awk '{ print $1 }' (thats all I need for the part), but I also need to find how long they have been...

Except I have to use the kill command. One of those pesky requirements.

EDIT: Sorry I didn't see your explanation at first. Thanks a bunch that was giving me a somewhat hard time. I'm fairly...

Hey I need to write a script that can kill itself. I have to use the command kill within it.

So I have gotten my head around to that I need to use ps to get the PID but I have no idea how to...

Thanks for the info. I used a cat and just read the file first first so I knew exactly what I needed to replace beforehand, which is why what I used worked.

All of the other information was a lot...

Nevermind I figured it out I did


cat addresses.txt | \sed -e 's/Ave./Avenue/' | \sed -e 's/St./Street/' | \sed -e 's/E./East/' | \sed -e 's/Ter./Terrace/' > addresses4.txt


and that worked...

I really hate to do this, but I am completely stumped. I have to create a sed script that will change the abbreviations in a file to the full word. I really just have no idea where to start. All I...