Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I am planning the following to do. On my linux system I've got different users in the /home/ directory. These users have file limitations.

So every user below the /home/ directory should get a text file in a seperate folder /home/$user/files/ which tells him how many files he is already using.

For example:

Code:

Dear User, you are currently using X files in the Linux System. Please be aware that the permissions for you is set to 100 files.

The X for the files I know how to get:

Code:

find /home/directory -type f | wc -l

But some little problems are still unclear for me.

1. How can look like a functionality which do the file creation including the Message for every directory in the /home/ directory?

2. How can I own the files to the related user? witch chown?

3. The file should have an automated filename with numbers with different numbers per User, how can I realise this?

If you can help me this will be greatful.

Just as a side question: Why limit the number of files instead of the total size of the directory (which can be done via quotas)?

Because this is for a free training group and if the good people have time they create file after file and when the next lesson begin I have to clean it up and only need seperate files. That while there a limitations for file numbers this is only the the pople can create a serveral numbers of files before the system get spammed