Shell Programming and Scripting

hello

i want shell script.

i have a source.txt

/home/user409/public_html/test/
/home/user09876/public_html/xdsss/
/home/user9765/public_html/320xxx/
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.
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maybe 1000 lines

i want .

1.read a source.txt
2.untar special.tar.gz into these directory in source.txt
3.i want to change untar all files ownership rightly
4.chmod 755 untar all files .

ex)
!!!!!! first line
untar special.tar.gz -xvfz /home/user409/public_html/test/
and cd /home/user409/public_html/test
and chown -R user409:user409 *
and chmod -R 755 *


!!!!!!second line
untar special.tar.gz -xvfz /home/user09876/public_html/xdsss/
and cd /home/user09876/public_html/xdsss/
and chown -R user09876:user09876 *
and chmod -R 755 *
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Pls put all these commands in a script file and change the permission to execute mode, it should work fine...

it is 1000 lines ;;

I think what was ment was put the above commands you gave into a script and read in the directories from the file, ie.

Code:

while read userdir
do
..
your commands
..
done < source.txt

so your command above to change directory

Code:

cd /home/user409/public_html/test

becomes

Code:

cd $userdir

etc.

How to strip the user dir/name is another question, sadly I cant answer at present

How about changing ownership?
maybe untar file is root..

Hi,
check this out !

while read line
do
untar special.tar.gz -xvfz $line
cd $line
chown -R user409:user409 *
chmod -R 755 *
done < source.txt

no
these directory is not under user409.
each directory's ownership is different.

/home/user409/public_html/test/ ------>ownership:user409
/home/user09876/public_html/xdsss/ ------>ownership:user09876
/home/user9765/public_html/320xxx/ ------>ownership:user9765