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what does that have to do with mail??

ive got mac os x 2.2 and my flash download says i need 6.x to use it, but on my old mac i had a mac classic version of flash(before the hard drive got wiped out) and on jaguar 2.2 you can go classic...

is there a way to make my script wait before doing something without using the "sleep _" command?

i have mac os x 2.2 jaguar and Mail wont open any links? When i click on them it just does nothing. does anybody know why/how to fix it? please help me..

thanks, blip

that helped, thanks.

im still getting an error when i run it. this is what happens when i run it and enter "1" in the first prompt(should there be any kind of tags around what im posting here, oombera?):


Purge:...

thanks for the help. and ill try to remeber code tags and to format my code in the future. but how do you format code in vi? i cant make indentations all i can do is single spaces. do you know?

ok, i tried to write a script called purge.sh
which searches current process' for a specified user running a process with a specified keyword. it also prompts the user to see how many times to purge...

how do i do an or in an if-then statement? i tried:

if [ $variable = "letter" || "other_letter" ]; then
bleh
fi


how????

that helped, thanks alot, perderabo. but why do all those "(,)"'s go there?

to anyone reading this, i also made another mistake:
"while [ $query_number > "0" ];"
should be:
"while [...

ok, i wrote a script called purge.sh
which i referred to in another thread. It prompts the user for a keyword and a username and then kills all of the entered username's processes containing that...

ok, i have a script which i use to search my process' for specific keywords and kill any process containing them. there is a prompt to enter a keyword for searching and another prompt for which user...

its not homework, I just got a new imac so im trying to become more familiar with unix and learn some stuff.

Worked great, thanks.

I've come to like vi, but I am plagued by not being able to delete characters. I can delete lines with the ":delete" command but I can't find a way to delete single characters. anybody know?????
...

well i have yet another question.:rolleyes: I tried to write the information entered in my prompt to a file with:

$prompt_info > /dir/file

it returns "./prompt.sh:WhateverIEnteredInThePrompt:...

That worked perfectly, thanks.:)

Ok. I thought it did something so I wasn't removing it. But it doesnt stop the terminal from going to the next line.I'm using macosx 10.2.2 jaguar with a tcsh shell. do you know how i could...

that works when i run it with "source file.sh", but the history command doesnt seem to work when run with the "./file.sh" command. Can you help me out?

Great! its working almost perfectly. the only problem is that its printing the "\c". How do i get that to not print?

I have macosx 10.2.2 jaguar and it comes with tcsh, how would i change it to bash or something?

nordsk hensk, would you know what command i can use to prompt the user for input? I want to prompt a user for their password and cant figure out how.

ok, ive got another question: I want my script to execute when a user logs in. Putting it in Startupitems wont do what I want because that only executes scripts on computer bootup. I need a script to...

Thanks alot cbkihong and perderabo, alot of your suggestions helped out a ton!

I think I may be doing something wrong, but I tried what you suggested. I control-clicked(i have a mac, no right clicks) on the desktop and it brought up the options: Help, New Folder, Get info, and...