Maybe. You should post WHAT doesn't work. I guess you're using a recent version of bash?
You read in a file name, but never read FROM that file. I bet you get a "command not found" error for the $(dir), and user_dets are never assigned to.
Try e.g.
and report back.
In the bash below I am asking the user for a panel and reading that into bed. Then asking the user for a file and reading that into file1.Is the grep in bold the correct way to apply the selected panel to the file? I am getting a syntax error. Thank you :)
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I need a script to add the following two users ids to the permissions for various files: IIS_WPG and IUSR_CowGirl. I am fairly familiar with scripting but haven't been able to figure out how to do this via a script. Manually doing it is slow. I don't want to create users but only add them to a... (2 Replies)
I need a script to add the following two users ids to the permissions for various files: IIS_WPG and IUSR_CowGirl. I am fairly familiar with scripting but haven't been able to figure out how to do this via a script. Manually doing it is slow. I don't want to create users but only add them to a... (2 Replies)
I have a tab delimited text file,
id name distance
1 3325167 0.334561754018
2 3290488 0.389444269458
3 3288794 0.392312701782
4 3347602 0.392532202097
5 3295355 0.394394169485
I need to add a line after the header line. The first and third field of... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I after some assistance please. Below is a file I need to read and for each line write an output.
My input file looks like this
2 20008 2003-08-26
2 20032 2003-08-26
2 20041 2003-08-26
2 20037 2003-08-26
2 20050 2003-08-26
6 ... (6 Replies)
I am attempting to insert multiple lines of text into a specific place in a text file based on the lines above or below it.
For example, Here is a portion of a zone file.
IN NS ns1.domain.tld.
IN NS ns2.domain.tld.
IN ... (2 Replies)
Hi I am trying to write a bash script to add a line of text to the middle of a file.
The way I worked it out was to calculate the number of lines and divide by 2. The file I am using is called newfile and it just contains lines of data.
The new file I have created I have called midfile and... (7 Replies)
Hi All
I am making a script in which.I have a problem i try to discribe.
File1 content need to be append in file 2 but such as if content already exist then dont add.
File1 IS Like this
myname
yourname
hername
hisname
File2
%AddNameHere myname yourname hername hisname (3 Replies)
Hi,
I wanted to add specific text to each row in a text file containing three rows. Example:
0 8 7 6 5 5
7 8 9 0 7 9
7 8 9 0 1 2
And I want to add a 21 at the beginning of the first row, and blank spaces at the beginning of the second two rows. To get this:
21 0 8 7 6 5 5
7 8... (4 Replies)
Suppose content of my first file:
first line
second line
third line
How can i insert text between "first line" & "second Iline"
Any help?????/ (7 Replies)