Shell Programming and Scripting

i have to start someware

If you are not allowed to use the correct tools for the job then I suggest you kick up a fuss.
Unix utilities are there to be used not ignored because of someone's prejudices.
You have my sincere sympathies

i assume he is doing this, because he wants me to grasp some concepts, he did say i can use sed and awk once am confirtable doing stuff without them

i have only being using unix for about 2 weeks now after all.

can we get to the problem in hand please

and can the find function be used to display something like the 1st string of 10 characters from a line?

not exactly, but something to start with:

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

echo -n "please enter file name : "
read file

echo "      READ WRITE EXECUTE"
getfacl "${file}" | while IFS=':' read what junk perm
do
   case "${what}" in
      user|group|other)
             echo "${what} $(echo ${perm} | sed -e 's/[rwx]/ YES /g' -e 's/-/ NO /g')"
             ;;
   esac
done

that help me out a LOT, thank you, thank you all