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Thanks for the reply. With a few additions including this everything is working smoothly. Appreciate the help.

I had allot of help with the below script, and its been a long time since i've done anything with shell scripts so I am having some trouble.

I am trying to zip the trace folder after it is copied...

Well that makes sense. Im very new to shell scripting, and it doesn't help that i keep leaving and coming back to it.

Things are working appropriately now, back to messing around with different...

Im using a script that writes a random line to a text file then executes another shell script. My problem is that the lottery shell script will not execute. Im not receiving an errors when running...

Im trying to make a script that prints 2 messages to a screen session, one after the other.

screen -x session44 -X stuff "`printf "Test 1\r"`"

This works fine, but adding a second lien with a...

Also i was wonder why you removed exit 0 from the script and exactly what it means as well as esac. Thank you.

Awseome, works well :)

So i assume where i have mtest.txt i can also jsut specify a path to a directy containing a tex file, like the following. home/test/user/mtest.txt.

Thank you for your...

cant seem to get ifthanwhile's example working. When i execute the shell script i get the following.
./cc.sh: line 8: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
./cc.sh: line 8: ` 2) echo 'test2/'...

Yes, that's exactly what i wish to do. Thanks for the info i,ll try it out.

Wonderful, thank you so much for your help you've made my dreams come true :)

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Could I request some more...

Hi, im trying to make a shell script that basically runs a random shell script form a list of shell scripts i specify. Im not very good at writing shell scripts, and am new to linux.

Thanks in...

Im not quite sure i understand how to use that line. Im better at disassembling something to figure out how it works, not getting the pieces and putting it together.

Either way i appreciate the...

For example instead of adding the word foo to the last line of the txt fiel which is what i initiially wanted i want to have a list of words that it can choose from.

foo
hello
cat
cow...

Seems easy enough.

Would it be possible instead of replacing it with a pre defined name, have it choose a random name from a txt file or just specified in the script that it puts onto the last...

Im trying to make a script that simply adds a word to the last available line in a txt file without overwriting any previous lines.

Ive googled this and there are great examples but no one explain...