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apologies, this is what i have

cat $1 | awk -F, '{print $1 "," $2}' | sed '1d' | sed 's/IE//' | sed 's/^\(.\{7\}\)/\1 /' | sed 's/^\(.\{9\}\)/\1 /' | sed 's/,/ /' | awk '{ print $4 " " $1 " " ...

Hi guys
I am looking to convert this kind of entry in a txt file

26/04/2008

to

April 2008


Note : this is not using the date command , these are date entries in a file

can i do this...

excelent thanks . i really like the read -n1 buffer

can you explain the following to me ?

grep -v grep
if [ -n
read -n1 buffer
case $buffer in

You do need to catch the proccess id (pid) of the passed argument ($1) into a new variable, and 'kill that'..

How can i catch the process id of the passed arguement ? I just need to awk for the...

I want to use the awk command like in my above script

using awk as i just want to get familiar with the command

Hi Guys
I am running a small script to find a process id , ask user if they want to kill the process and then action it Yes or no

Here is what i have

#/bin/bash


ps -l | grep -i $1 | awk...

awsome thanks for all the help. working fine now

Your first case above is what i am using and thats not working. It works ok if user enters input but not working if i just press enter and enter nothing

yeah i fixed the outputs, thanks

I must be annoying you so apologies for that

yeah i thought that myself that it should be $dir so last time now i promise, here is my code

If i enter a dir then it works fine but its now not...

but i dont want to supply parameters calling the script. I just want the script to execute and ask the user what dir they want to check

if the user just presses enter without entering a dir then...

parameter count, yes so if 0 then set dir to pwd and if 1 (the user enters a dir) then set dir to that value ?

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ok . i must be missing something here. i thought that the case statement would change dir to $pwd if there was no entry by the user and if there was 1 entry then it would change dir to that entry $1 ?

entering the answer to be read into dir

user is asked what dir - if they type in a dir then the script isnt acting on it, its still acting on pwd

thanks for your help. I have it all working now except for if the user specifies a directory. The script still runs on the current directory. Any idea why $1 isnt being interpreted ?


#/bin/bash...

thanks guys

I am just trying to find read, not "at least read"

Ok i have added the following at the top of the script

case $# in
0) dir=${dir:-.}
esac
echo $dir
fileread....

When i...

im getting bad substitution on that

case $# in
0) dir=${dir.-.}
esac

Hi GUys

I have a script where i am counting the number of files that the user has read permissions to in a folder . They are asked for this folder at the start

if they dont enter anything then...