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Thank you Frank. I am running the dd command and tailing var/log messages to see if it shows anything. My gut tells me there is nothing wrong with the disk and the problems resulted as of the...

Do you have the command line for the dd?

How do I check for physical damage on red hat linux hard disks? I tried smartctl /dev/sdb but it came back so fast saying it was ok. Is there a better linux command to check for bad sectors or...

No help, very disappointed. OK, I'll stop asking and figure it out myself.

Anyone?

How do I add the option to change the path in a menu? I have this script. The user chooses a number and had the option of doing something, looking for log files etc. There is a possibility they...

Sorry, I have one more urgent request. My manager has asked me how to add a time variable. In other words, the user of the script must be able to choose a time, say 10-01-09 to 10-03-09. Can you...

This works great. Thank you all so much for your help.

6) echo "enter your search criteria here"
read var_1;
cd /home/demo/current_release/logs/current
...

I guess my lack of scripting combined with my flu are making me dizzy. If I add a line to the menu, such that is says input here your search criteria. How then do I pass it to the read?
echo " ...

This is what I want to do.


Get the word and search as variable.

So that I can have an option in the menu for the person to enter a keyword and do the search on that keyword. I think it needs...

Hello:

I need help adding a key word search to my bash script. I have the following script. My boss whats the user to be able to add a search word e.g. unknown failures for the script to search...

My script is almost done! Thanks everyone for your help and support.

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Sorry, it was working fine. Then...

So easy and I tried the stupid curly brackets and every combination but the one you showed. Thanks so much.

No, but thanks. I am fairly new at scripting. Like maybe 2 days. :p



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Another dumb question. The...

Thanks. I did figure that out earlier and work through the issue. You are completely correct, my logic was asking for the number of issues and the number of issues was 0. Thanks for your help.

What is wrong with my menu script? Do I need to continue with the read statements? All I want to do with option 4 is to cat some /var/log/files and awk out a few lines? How do I do that please?
...

OK, I now have a menu script I got here from someone else. I want to change the menu a bit though.

It looks like this:


$ cat...

Thanks, I already did and already have an answer, please close the thread. Thanks.

Can someone show me how to create a menu? I want a script someone who is not unix literate can use, with some simple commands like ls -al a directory or find files based on a date, does anyone know...

Can anyone please help? Thanks.

I'm sorry, I don't think we have a syslog server. This is a small operation. I just need a menu to parse through the logs, maybe pick up the date and hostname and put them in variables to use with...

I would like to parse through some logs looking for things like exception or failed (grep -i failed). Ideal would be if it were in a menu format so someone without unix ability could just choose...

If I understand you correctly, then I would simply put this:

./logcheck3.bash /var/spool/mail

in the logcheck3.bash script?

Thanks.

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Thank you very much.

I'm getting there and I really appreciate everyone's help. Thank you all.

I tried Av's and Dan's code and they both worked. The last thing I tried was dan's awk statement, which produced this...