Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey guys,
I have some trouble trying to add qualifiers like 'usrquota' & 'grpquota' to a specific field in the fstab through scripts. But im not able to add it to filessystems of my choice.

What im trying to do is to prompt the users about what filessystem they want the diskquota to be on, and then edit the desired line with the the qualifiers ONLY.

I have been trying commands like 'cut' and stuff but it doesnt work.

dplate07,
best rgds.

Strange that "users" set quotas. Usually you can do that on Linux for example with edquota and don't really need a front end asking you parameters. Anyway here you go.

One of many ways - take it as a start and try to readup and try out the things missing.

Example:

Code:

$> cat infile
/dev/sda1               /                       ext2    defaults       1 2
/dev/sda6               /home                   ext2    defaults       1 2
/dev/sda5               /var                    ext2    defaults       1 2
$> awk '$2 ~ /^\/home/ {sub(/$/,",usrquota",$4); print; next} {print}' infile
/dev/sda1               /                       ext2    defaults       1 2
/dev/sda6 /home ext2 defaults,usrquota 1 2
/dev/sda5               /var                    ext2    defaults       1 2

For keeping a formatted output you might want to work with printf instead of print though.
Variables you got via read for example from your "users" you can use with the -v option inside awk for example.

If those "users" may not be root etc. you might want to setup sudo for them so they can use edquota instead.

anyway just to clarify with u, so can i grep the one line like for example "grep hda7 | sed s/defaults/defaults,usrquota/" will this have the same effect like ur command above?