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I thought I had it pretty much all set minus some minor modifications, but I guess I was wrong. All I'm trying to do is write a simple script that will append the text from one file to the beginning...

Thanks. I had something similar, but I just need to work out some bugs. I was trying to combine comparative operator commands, but I guess what I have will work as well.

I can't seem to find anywhere how to syntactically reference a range of parameters in the script I am trying to write.

My script requires at least 2 parameters to run, with parameter 1 being the...

I just would like a simple script that I could use over and over that will search the sulog and print to the screen any failed attempts for whatever the date is at the present time.

I tried...

I would like a simple shell script that will allow me to display to screen all unsuccessful su attempts in my sulog file, for the present date.

I have been trying several different combinations of...

Thanks for the info nitrile. Believe it or not, I had just figured that out for myself, and I was just coming back here to tell everyone never mind.

Thanks again!

I am confused with how to restore archives. I just figured out the use of tar, but now after trying it with cpio, I'm unsure of some things. Firstly, is it necessary to cd to the directory you will...

Thank you!

I created a relative backup of my home directory using tar into a file named backup.tar.
No problem there.
I checked it out using the table of contents command to list the contents of the...

Thanks Ygor for your help.

I had to make some minor modifications to the flag script to get it to work for me, but all is well now, and the headache is now gone.

Thanks again!

Yes, but that isn't a problem at this point. Thanks though.

Sorry Optimus! I'll remember next time.

Ygor, I tried implementing the loop you showed to me, and two things are happening:

1) I keep getting prompted whether or not the UID is already...

As many of you on this forum already know, I have asked quite a few questions already that were probably elementary compared to your knowledge of Unix, but I have been searching through countless web...

Thank you!

Anyone know which configuration file stores the users who are not permitted to use the at command?

Thank you both very much.

Oops, I mean >>, sorry.

Thank you, and I apologize for my impatience.

I thought that << was to append, or is it true only in certain circumstances?

Yes...No...Maybe? Anyone???

I'm trying to create a crontab entry that will run the who command once per hour Monday-Friday. Any command output should be appended to the file whoison.log in my home directory.

This is what I...

No, I mean, I want to be prompted to enter the values myself, and then once the information is collected the script should append a passwd like entry to the file passwd.user in my home directory.

Anyone have a simple shell script that will prompt and accept screen input for each field that is required in the /etc/passwd file?

Hey, sorry man! I didn't mean any harm. It's just that I already specified that I had no knowledge of programming.
I have no idea of what to do with that script to modify it, that's all.
For...

Ygor,

I like your pic by the way. Pretty cool!

Thanks for the reply. I can see where you're going with that, but what I had in mind was something like this which I wrote in my version of pseudocode:

For each file listed as an argument
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