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Oh right that "." , no wonder i feel like im forgetting something.
Thanks a lot Scrutinizer

Hey, i got this 2 file. When i try to pick option 1, which is test1, it says ./test: test1: not found.
Any idea on how i can fix it?



#!/bin/sh

QUIT=0
`dirname $0`/testfile

while [...

haha yeh ill try to remember that, used to java coding..

Thanks for the warning methyl, jim mcnamara and chakrapani

ah... i found the problem.. im in directory path2 and i go and type all the path...


directory = `dirname /path1/path2/path3/file.txt`

if [ -w "$directory" ]
then
echo $?
else
echo...

ok now that's funny.... it shows no such file or directory..., dont think i got typo..

using bourne shell, unix

yeh it's showing drwxrwxrwx

ah right, that's true haha..

tried that doesnt work too, still showing i dont have permission... even tho its showing that everyone got full drwxrwxrwx permission...

-w "filename"

is suppose to return 0 if the file got write permission and 1 if not right?

for some reason... when i test it, it keep returning 1 even after i set full 777 permission to that...

lets see, for example

<title>NICK</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Thanks alot for helping.</p>]]>
<date>today</date>
<link>hi</link>for my program i output
...

hey 1 more question, how do you strip tags like <p></p> from output of xml with perl?

i already strip the CDATA but the annoying <p></p> still there

substr work great.. thanks alot guys

Hey guys, can help me out with this?

How do i limit output for xml to 50 character?
i tried *below* but doesnt work, it still print more than 50 characters.

Thanks in advance

printf...

thanks again itkamaraj and ctsgnd

thanks ctsgnb, for the sed, still learning to use sed. That sed code will become handy to me .

@ Carlom - yes as balajesuri said, it's not supported. no such option

@balajesuri , oh i see, need to write that down for future reference.

Thanks again CarloM and balejesuri

ah great... hmm sed , time to look up sed

btw the size of directory without sub is
du -S
that's what i got from the linux library i've been reading.
but for some reason when i type that in my...

is there anyway i can ask grep to only get the first line?
as in the top command line

line 1 <-- just grep this line
line 2
line 3

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i see so that's why brackets doesn't work but
t=`expr $t + $s`
should work on bourne too right?

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oh i...

bracket doesn't work, maybe cause it's sh? but backticks work
not on this (below)
i though this is suppose to work? judging from http://cis.stvincent.edu/html/tutorials/unix/bshellref
i'm...

u mean?

s=`expr ls -s Documents | grep Music | awk '{print $1}' ` doesnt work too.. i even tried {Documents} {Music}
none work

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first of all.. sorry about all the question bombing.. im bored atm so im currently playing around with sh scripting hehe

s = `expr ls -s Documents | grep Music | awk '{ print $1 }' `
t =...

oo.. so du still the best for size stuff

ah ic... thanks again

great thanks methyl

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same as ls -s? ls -s default 512 too right?

just to confirm
du from sh show sizes as multiples of 512 byte right?

hmm if i use
ls -Rs | grep /

does it print out all it's sub directory and it's size?

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oo it's just...