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The time like a clock. Basically, i am making a menu driven programme and i would like to have a "clock" on the top of each menu page.

The only way I have been able to make it work at the minute...

Yes... that's not what i want. By current time, i meant constant current time. Not the time when the script is run. I want the time to constantly update while the script is running.

Hi all,

Basically Im trying to put the current time in a script in BASH. Tried the watch command, but its not really what I want.

I will have lots of things in this script, current date and...

urm... it doesnt at the min however i could awk in the date aswell if that would help

Sorry, it was late last night, and I wasn't being very clear. (I actually posted the entire wrong situation).

In that file there is a column with a list of times (as above), and various other...

Hi all,

I have a list of times:
...10:02
15:34
20:05
01:51
06:55
09:00
05:52...

That's just part of the list (its huge).

How do I go about selecting certain times, e.g. just...

Never mind, realised I was being stupid and not using quotes :-)

Hi all,

Im being a bit thick,

I have output:
(06:15)
(01:12)

Showing the amount of time a user has been logged in, how do i delete the ( & ) using sed??

Cheers

thanks guys,

All methods work. Thanks for the idea of getting rid of all the system users, never thought of that!!

Cheers!

Hi,

Is there any command for showing offline users?

The only way I can think of doing it (as i cant find a command) is getting a list of all the online users, and comparing it to...

ahhh, the was encasing it in [...] that i forgot.

Many thanks!

Hi,

I am trying to write a script to show the status of a Network card.

Variables:

chosennic is a read variable
statuss=`/sbin/ifconfig $chosennic | grep MTU | awk '{print $1}'`...

Perfect, thanks cfajohnson!

Hi all,

I am trying to create a file that shows the CPU usage, constantly updating (similar to TOP).

So far i have a file (called test) containing:
echo "The current CPU usage is:" `ps -e -o...

if there are always 3 slashes piping into the following will work

awk -F / '{print $4}'

Not sure if that's what you wanted, but I'm a beginner too. Hope it helped a little

I wanted to virtually send the command Ctrl & C into my script, as the case statement doesn't always end properly sometimes.

Unless there is a foolproof way to automatically end a script that I...

Sometimes it works fine the way it is.. just sometimes it takes me entering Q a few times before the script will actually end.

Is there a command to force end a script? Like virtually pressing...

Hi all,

I am trying to end a Menu script. Can people suggest various methods please?

At the moment I am doing:

quit=n
while [ "$quit" = "n" ]
do
...Code
Code
Code...
read userinput...

Hi all,

I have programmed in VB before, and have recently moved on to Bash.

In VB there is a command:
SendKeys {F12} > "Show Help"
SendKeys {Y} > "Answer Yes"

Is there any way of doing...

Thanks, that has listed all the unique users, how would I then calculate the amount of users, like who -q shows #users... any thoughts?

No... no joy :-(,

who|uniq outputted exactly the same as the who command without the pipe.

I am trying to show how many users are logged into one of my systems. Using who -q it gives me a user count, but some users are logged in multiple times.

Is there any easy parameter that I can...