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THis is my file named mycron which I add it to the crontab entry later to run every 5 mins and this works. But I havnt done the last part - to run another script if everything succeeds.

Thanks...

This is my task - pls help

Write a script that will run every 5 min and check if a particular file has appeared in a particular directory. Once it appears then rename the file and move it a bkp...

Thanks Panyam ... thats much more flexible !

Thanks for the reply dinjo ...

but what if the path is read from the terminal... ie, $path can be anything - like, /home/myfile.txt
/home/bliss/myfile.txt
/home/one/two/myfile.txt...

Im trying to extract a directory from a path entered by the user

Lets say the path is
path=/home/bliss/files/myfile.txt

i wanna extract "/home/bliss/files" from $path ... how can i do this?

I use Fedora

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Hey guys ... its working ... thank u :)

I created a file called mycron in /home/mrudula with the following :
0, 5, 10, 15 * * * * (echo "Hello mycron") > /dev/console

then I tried to add this file to the crontab entries by the follwing...

I just tried a simple thing - to display time on the terminal every 5 minutes .. this is my crontab entry for it - but it doesnt seem to work ... y is that?

pwd
/usr/lib

contab -e
no crontab...

Thanks for the wonderful explanation Rob !! Now lemme try to work it out ...

Hello all,

I want to run a script every 5 minutes. How to accomplish this task?


Thanks in advance
Mrudula

No it doesnt work :( :(

Thats almost the same code i have ...

Alberto, I had my .bash_profile in /home ... now ive moved it to /home/mrudula ... i logged out and logged in again.

To open a new terminal, i just click on the shortcut to the terminal on the...

When i start a new terminal do i have to be in /home for the msg to be displayed? Im now in /home/mrudula when i start a new terminal ... if thats reqd, how do i change this?

Hey thanks!! That works - source .bash_profile prints my msg !! Can u pls tell me something more on 'source'

But i just tried to open another terminal - but the msg is not displayed .. but when i...

Thanks Dev. It displayed /bin/bash which means im using the bash ... But y isnt the msg displayed from .bash_profile? Help needed !!

Thanks for your response Dev.

First - how do i know which shell i am using?

I renamed the file .profile to .bash_profile. I logged in again but still its not displayed.

Thanks to all. Im still not getting the msg.

I use fedora - boots fedora - it asks for password when i click on my login account - after typing the password it comes to the desktop - then i open...

Thanks Amit. I changed the profile name to .profile as u said. Now I have /home/.profile

But I logged in again and opened the terminal but it doesnt display the msg i have in .profile. What must b...

I am just a beginner in shell scripting so please forgive me for my mistakes.

Yes, that's the profile name i gave welcome.profile in the dir /home

Code:

echo Welcome to Fedora !!
echo Today...

I have created welcome.profile in /home and it does have the reqd permissions to read ... i tried to log in again but still it doesnt show my msg :( ... y is that

Thanks for your response Amit.

I created the .profile file. But without me executing the file, I want it to display the file contents. Can u pls tell me how I can achieve this? Is there any boot...

Hello all,

I would like a message to be displayed on the shell when someone opens up the terminal - something like a welcome msg with date and time. I know how to do this by running the shell...