Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys, i really need some urgent help on a few things

I'm an extreme unix novice,

Can you guys please help me with a couple of questions.

I am in no way asking anyone to do it for me, but i am really asking for some extremely in depth help. I know alot of this is very second nature to you guys, from jsut reading over the forums. I am finding it impossible.


My question is:

i have to Print all the processes that are currently running, by invoking ps, and sort them in reverse order using the COMMAND column of the output as the key.

This can't be hard, but i cannot do it no matter what i try.

Please, if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated.

Is it an assignment ?

I work for a web design company in Bendigo, and im trying to learn it myself through some online tutorials etc. i don't learn it at uni or anything, i'm finished all that.

Not really an assignment, as it's not.. due or anything, but it is work that i want to do.

This isn't gonna be a once off, im sure this will be one of many annoying questions ill be asking over the next few months while i learn it.

Can you help me with figuring it out ?


One more question while im here.

how do you Print a long listing of the files in a specified directory for a specific month, my specified directory i assume is just ../troysunix

So i have to have a menu i suppose where i can input which month i want to check.

Eg. Feb, and it will show me the files that were in ../troysunix for the month of feb?

But i cant figure out how for the life of me.

Code:

ps -axeo comm,pid | sort -r

Thankyou so much, now i've gotta try and get that into my script.

how do you Print a long listing of the files in a specified directory for a specific month, my specified directory i assume is just ../troysunix

So im making a menu, i suppose where i can input which month i want to check.

Eg. Feb, and it will show me the files that were in ../troysunix for the month of feb?

But i cant figure out how for the life of me.