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Jed is my favourite, for most purposes.

This is why copy and paste was invented:)

I must need new glasses, I can't see the link.:)

Isn't Fmurphy's line doing what you want?
When I run it I get what I think you're asking for.
du -h D*
492K Desktop/Postmodernity_files
172K Desktop/116-system-restore-disk_files
149M ...

Thank you.

How about this,
cat *.CLT > 11021000021.CLT

Chubler_XL, (https://www.unix.com/members/302085178.html)I don't understand the reason for the for loop. Could you please explain that?

By script do you mean a commandline program? If so, I recommend alpine. You can set it to open a gmail box.alpine gmail - Google Search (http://www.google.ca/search?q=alpine+gmail)

You could open the file in an editor and remove the hash mark. I'm not familiar with apt, but if it's similar to yum, it'll have an option to enable a specific repository. With yum, I'd just use...

Doesn't Suse have a native tool for this? Fedora does and a Suse repository can't be too different.

If you want to search a file for a pattern within it, you might try grep. The -f tests for a file's existence.

if [ -f filename ]
then grep pattern
do something
done
fi

It works for you then?

Can you post that section of your script?

Bash is a program and putting it all on one line as you seem to have done would run it with all those things as arguments to the bash command.

I don't understand this script, what does bash script do? You could put the echo on the same line with a semi-colon, ie,
bash script; echo "what's 1 2 3 4"
Do you mean 1 2 3 4 to be options? If...

Have you got a space at the end of your test brackets? Yours seems to end with -lt "1"] Without the space bash thinks that the bracket is part of the rest of it.

Hi Doug, it would be best to do this as a non-privileged user. It's considered "best practice" to reserve root for things that actually require it, thus reducing the results of screwing up.

If you just want to strip off the "tar.gz", you should look at sed.
That's want you want? To have an output of xyz for ever xyz.tar.gz?

Can you not delete the partitions on the USB key? I've never had these problems with many installs of Fedora to USB keys. Have you tried unetbootin? Another way to do it would be to use a livecd and...

Does your OS have a program called timeout? It's one of gnu-coreutils. Run firefox with timeout set to kill it after a certain period.

That'll just tell the OP who's logged in now. I think what is asked for, is a script that will log or perhaps send mail when someone logs in.
Przemekny, You'll have to monitor certain logfiles, I...

What are you trying to echo? At the least, you should put quotes around cat | cat <&3. But that will just display it.

Actually, it works for me without the ticks or quotes. The OP was missing the plus sign.

[kurt@Heimdal ~]$ date +%d/%m/%Y
07/10/2010