Shell Programming and Scripting

Wow,

Very nice,

Thank you so much. It worked like a charm. now to dissect what you've changed. I want to learn how to do this better.

Thank you for your input methyl.

Thank you all for your help,






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I keep getting an error on the output part of the script on the bottom.

I took it out. What does output have to do with the script. It still gives me the same output without the error though.

Thanks.

I've removed the line "output" from my post. It came from post #1 .

With hindsight I realise that the first line of the script in post #1 is missing and would probably have been part of a function called "output". The poster in post #3 twigged this but broke the script with the addition of "ls".
The function "output" would only have worked if the {} characters were in the right place. There are other variations in the syntax for a function - including just leaving white space after the { as an earlier poster suggested.

Code:

output ()
{
bdf ........
}

Code:

output ()
{ bdf ........
}

Cool thank you...