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Neo,
I am not familar with wrapper scripts.
I was thinking a longer way of doing things would be do write a bunch of if, elifs and write something like if
if [ "$1" -eq January ]
then
cal 1...

Neo,
I am not familar with wrapper scripts.
I was thinking a longer way of doing things would be do write a bunch of if, elifs and write something like if
if [ "$1" -eq January ]
then
cal 1...

Neo,
I know that much, but
I meant so I could type cal mar, or cal March.
Any suggestions.

Thanks,

theA

I have this idea.
I have a variable for the start of someones log in time,
(start=`who am i | cut -c30-34`)
and a variable for the log out time or present time,
(end=`date | cut -c12-16`)
but...

I am trying to configure the cal command to recognize the month names.
When you type: cal - you get the calander for the current month of the current year.

Is there a way of making the system...

Hi,
I want to list all the words in my file on a separate line.
I am using the bourne(sh)/bourne again shell(bash).

Thanks,

theA

Hi,
I'm back!
Ok, I'm trying to use a variable with a value of a unix command.
So when I try a=`ls`, then echo $a I get the correct answer.
But when I try it with a pipe:
a=`ls | wc -c`, then...

This is wat I have, I used "elif" before but it worked the same. Ok the first 2 if statements work but the last 2 don't. For example here are the files in your dir:
10 11.txt 12 14.txt

When...

Another book I saw while browsing at Chapters was

"Optimizing Unix for Performance" -Author Amir H. Majidimehr

Seemed very interesting, I was just wondering if anyone has read this book and...

Another book I saw while browsing at Chapters was

"Optimizing Unix for Performance" -Author Amir H. Majidimehr

Seemed very interesting, I was just wondering if anyone has read this book and...

Actually this isn't really working:

I used:

if [ ! -e "$1" ]
then
echo "Database file \"$1\" does not exist!"
exit 1
elif [ ! -e "$1" ]
then
echo "Database file \"$1\" does...

Hi,
I was wondering how everyone has gotten good their training in unix. Did anyone specialize in college/university or take a course at a computer institute.
At my college you can't really...

Hi again,
OK - I figured it out on my own, this is funny when this happens!
if [ "-f" = "*txt" ]
then
echo
fiBut thanks for trying!

added code tags for readability --oombera

Hi,
First off I usually script in the bash shell.
Ok, in my script I am checking to see if the filename has a .txt extension.
So I was trying:
if [ ! -e "*txt" ]
then
echo "Must contain a...

Neo - I know that part - that's what I'm using for my other "if" statements.
I just don't know how to have it recognize if the file is in my dir.

Usually I prompt so when you echo the question...

Hi,
I am writig this script and usually I have prompts like:
echo "Enter file name: "
read "$filename"

So later when I want verify the name to something I can:
if [ "$filename" = "penski" ]...

I just started reading about sendmail.
What I wanted to know is - is it possible to have an auto response for my hotmail account/@home/sympatico account -
or? As I stated I just recently started...

Thanks everyone, and Neo please post the networking books as well, and as many as you can that are worth posting about.
Keep them coming!

theA

Thanks everyone, and Neo please post the networking books as well, and as many as you can that are worth posting about.
Keep them coming!

theA

Another good shell programming book I saw on my quest on
getting the best unix shell programming book is:
"Linux and Unix Shell Programming" by Tansley David
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Another good shell programming book I saw on my quest on
getting the best unix shell programming book is:
"Linux and Unix Shell Programming" by Tansley David
...

I'm just looking for really good unix book on programming in all shells, and system adminstrator books, and well as just all around really good books on unix.
I know the "Unix Shell Programming"...

I'm just looking for really good unix book on programming in all shells, and system adminstrator books, and well as just all around really good books on unix.
I know the "Unix Shell Programming"...

In my script let's call it myfile, I want to have an option where the script changes the time format(military to standard). But to have the script change - you run the script but instead of at the...

This is sort of the same question I recently asked:
In my script I'm outputing lines of various symbols.
When I run my script it prints the information vertically.
I need my script to print out...