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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi,
I am totally a newbie to any programming languages and I just started an entry level job in an IT company. One of my recent tasks is to create a script that is able to show the log file of linux service (i.e. ntpd service)
lets say, if I run my script ./test.sh, the output should be... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: xiaogeji
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2. OS X (Apple)
I need to find a file using Applescript. Applescript is so slow. Someone on the Apple forums gave me some unix code and it works for the most part. The ls command is really list and not find but when it works, it returns the path to the file instantly, NOT 45 seconds Applescript takes.
here is... (11 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
Ubuntu server 11.10
can anybody help what is problem with my shell script?
#!/bin/bash
#script to find out currently logged on user is root or not.
if ]
then
echo "You are super"
else
echo "You are awesome!"
fi
When I run script, I get following output
./uid: line 3:
I... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: kaustubh
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4. Programming
Hi folks,
I would like to get familiar with shell script programing.
The first task is:
write a shell script that:
scans your home-folder + sub-directory for all txt-files that all users of your group are allowed to read and write
then output these files sorted by date of last... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: rollinator
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am trying to automate the killing of named processes of which I found a good solution here on the forums but as I am pretty much a begginer to linux I am having an issue. The code I found is:
kill $(ps -ef | nawk '/monitoreo start/ { print $2}'}
but what I want to do is replace... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: TylrRssl1
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all,
I want to write a shell script to list the contents of a directory and number them and write them to a file.
For example, if I have a directory temp and the contents of the directory are alpha, beta and gamma. I want to write these filenames to a file "test" in a numbered manner.
... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: grajp002
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Can someone help me write this shell script?
I am completely new to shell and as a fun task my uncle has challenged me a problem (out of all other people). Basically, all he wants me to do is to create backup file in a folder that is named “disables.”
This is what he said: create a shell script... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: hotcutiepie05
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
My problem looks like it should have a simple solution but it seems that after many days of research I cannot find a good solution. What I have is an input file that contains lines of information. What I need is to extract specific information from that file. What I know is that somewhere in the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: eback
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Q1>How do i read and write to file in shell script. Here is what i want let's assume the filename as "file1"
Read file1
Check the content of file1 which can be either "0" or "1"
if(content == 0)
{
execute a command
}
flush file1(remove all contents in it)
write "1" in to... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: perk_bud
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm sure this is an easy one but I can't seem to get it working. Given the following:
for oldName in `ls *.JPG` ;do
newName=<confusion here. how to make sed perform 's/.JPG/_thumb.JPG/g' operation on $oldName>
done
Could someone show me what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks
Ken (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: ktoz
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