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Hi,

First *_* : it represent a string in two (or more) parts as follow :
Note that the * represent whatever char you want.
(of course, *^* is the same but with ^ instead of _ )

Secondly...

Can you post your code please?
How do you want the file's content to be printed? in the terminal (in this case maybe a "more file.txt" could do)?

Ok, I think I need to apologize... Indeed it works. I must have written something bad when i tried it..

Thanks anyway!

well, in this case, the shell will says that there is too few arguments for "rm"

thanks a lot Jean-Pierre, you save my life! :D:b:
And maybe you could save me a 2nd time if you say me hox to remove all those files...
I tried
rm *
but it always says "argument list too...

Hi all,

I have a script who generate as an output a lot of files (the number is highly variable : 500 to more than 10000).
At the end of this script I need to do a "chmod" on all those files. I...

Ok, tanks for your answers both of you!

Hi all,

I have a script with those two lines :
test -f $PWD/mysetup.txt
. $PWD/mysetup.txt

I understand the first one, but could anyone explain me the role of the second one? All the thing I...

#!/bin/bash

var="00:00:10"
varbis="00:00:09"

if [ $var = "00:00:10" ] ;then
echo same
fi

if [ $varbis != "00:00:10" ] ;then
echo not the same
fi
exit

be careful to let spaces...

[ $yourvariable = "00:00:10" ]

are you running your_script_name.sh arg1 arg2
or your_script_name arg1 arg2?

Just to write something cleaner, you could do something like:
if [ "${option_count}" -eq 1 ] ;then
ACTIOn_TYPE=$1...

Thx for your answers. I found another solution : contacting my computing office ^^. Files restored!

Hi every body,

well, i made quite a big mistake... In a script, I created a directory called "$PWD" ( it was unwanted...). nothing very frightening with that. The problem is that I wanted to...

here is the script I wrote :
#!/bin/bash
stty erase ^H

testlogin()
{
local log=$0
if(test $login != papa);then
exit 1;
fi
}

echo -n "login? "
read login
testlogin $login
echo"still...

Can you post the script you wrote corresponding to "some command" plz?
Where does the parameter of your DoExit function comes from?

Hi, if I'm xell understanding, what you want is that if you have no arguments in your function DoExit, you exit the main program.
In this case, you can test the exit value after your function :
...

Hi, i try something like this :
nombre=13.5

if (test $nombre = {*.*}); then
echo "ici"
else
echo "la bas"
fi
exit 0;

But it doesn't works..... Whatever value I put in nombre, it returns...

You can use this function even with a script who needs parameters.
Indeed, in the example of "sleep 67", "67" is a parameter.

I use it withe a script who has 10 parameters and it works very well!...

How are you using this function?
if you are doing something like this :
code code
code code
code code
elapsed
I understand why it doesn't works. You have to specify on which script you want to...

Thx a lot Jean Pierre,
I tested it and it works.... in bash shell. And i need it for a csh script and here it doesn't work (snif..)
When I just copying the script it send me this error :


and...

ok, thx a lot for your answer.

Another question : what is the difference between real time, user time and system time?

And I just realized that if forgot a part of my question previously so I...

Hi,

I have a simple question. How can I get the execution time of a script and maybe put it in a variable?

Another question. How can I get only time and not date and put it in a variable? I...

Hi,

There's something I don't understand.
is
redirects.virgin-atlantic.com.confthe name of the file? In this case, what is the use of
> temp?

Another question : this script is written...

thx, and for the csh, it's not a choice... or i need to translate a whole csh script in bash... qiute boring!

Thx again for your answer

Hi everybody,

In a csh script, i need to run 4 time the same prog with different parameters. What i want is to run them in parallel. for this i use the command

toto1.sh & toto2.sh & toto3.sh &...