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My program was correct but didn't work for some strange reasons. After I cleaned it up (added tabs and braces) it worked perfectly.
thank you for reply mate :)

It worked man thanks a lot!! can you tell me whats the difference between my program and yours? I tried to put curly braces earlier but didn't work :/

I want to print 4052 slashes using this C program.
#include <stdio.h>

void main()
{
int i;
for (i=0; i<4052; i++)
printf ("/");

}

When i compile this via gcc am getting this error :...

Please check my script. How can i supply values of $f3 to $num?

The previous suggestion worked for me however, now instead of a txt file with one integer per line, I want read a csv file and apply script to get the statistics of marks. How would i extract values...

I knew i had to specify a file, then i tried adding "num=$1" that didn't work. But your suggestion worked perfectly! thank you!

I am trying to make a script to read marks from a file then find out how many of them are above 40 (passing marks). However my script is getting stuck at "read num". I dont understand whats the...

wow i didnt knew there are forums which help in homework O.o will post there next time.

yes! yes! that was the last problem now code is working as it was designed for. Would you believe i have to submit this code tomorrow as my sem1 assignemnt! phew! what a close call!

Rudi, A BIG...

still one problem, if selected not to overwrite, it doesnt create user_old folder but overwrites existing files.

Do you want to overwrite the file (y/n):
+ read answer
n
+ '[' N == N ']'
+ mv...

I noticed that and after correction :
./add_user_rudi userlist /filelist /files /
./add_user_rudi: line 33: conditional binary operator expected
./add_user_rudi: line 33: syntax error near `"0"'...

please check the attachment

following this script, if answer is yes, the files are being copied to user dir but if said "No" then no files are being copied or backed up. and no user_old folders are created.

modified the code as suggested, this is error log :
./add_user_orig userlist /filelist /files/ /
./add_user_orig: line 34: conditional binary operator expected
./add_user_orig: line 34: syntax...

ok first problem is solved after implementing your solution. the script now checks if files are already present, if yes then asks to overwrite, if not then copies new files to dir. however if...

This is ful log report using ls|wc -w after assignment old=_old. Its showing that the dir is empty but still asking to overwrite. Return code after ls|wc -w is also 0.


root@bt:~# bash -vx...

log showing return code after cd $4$user and old=_old

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If possible, could you please modify the script for me? It would be great help.

Heres the error log :

http://s2.postimage.org/guoq1gr2x/error_log.png

i tried putting double quotes but no luck.

PS: neha is first username in userlist.

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theres one more problem in the script, whenever we run the script it says "file for user already exists", even if the user is being created for the 1st time. I think the problem is here :...

I tested the script multiple times, it copies old files to the user_old dir regardless of the answer chosen by the user i.e. in both cases.

I have understood most if the script now but got a doubt in this section :

if [[ $answer -eq y || $answer -eq Y ]]; then
mv $4$user $4$user$old > /dev/null
...

thanks i will try and see what i can learn from it.

Hi guys,

I've a simple linux script (made by my friend), which adds users to the system from userlist file. it also creates user home dir and copies certain files to the directory. To be honest,...