wow, thanks sknake. those 2 articles give me exactly what i need. = )

hi,
basically i am trying to write a quick script to remote copy something as follow.

"" scp user@192.168.1.5:/var/tmp/file.txt /var/tmp/newfile.txt ""

if i do above cmd on the shell, i...

thank you, that works perfectly in bash. Now i am trying to translate it into perl. i guess i'll post my another question in the perl page.

hi,
i am trying to write a script to add 100 users and with certain things created. however, all the book and tutorials online recommend and only show the way to use passwd user after creating a...

hi, basically i need to find out how many lines are in a file. would someone please refer me a quick command?

i don't think wc would work since i need the line number.

thanks

I had a similar script in solaris and it had no problem. I wrote this one in freeBSD and it gave me strange output. Can anyone please tell me why? thanks a lot


#!/bin/sh
#This is a shell script...

Mike,
thanks again, and it surely works. Would you explain a little bit of what you have done?

cat <<EOF | mailx -s "subject" target@address
is it like, you cat whatever in...

hi,
can anyone give me a brief example using mailx and heredoc to send an email?


#!/bin/sh
mail -s "subject" target@address >>body
hello all,
this is supposed to be the body of...

Mike,
thanks again for the help. i am more experienced after all these misconceptions.

if [ "$1"="-s" -a -n "$2" ] # if $1 is string "-s" and $2 is not null
then
string="$2" # then string="$2"
else
echo "error"
exit 1
fi
echo $string

just to echo myself... if at the beginnig i change everything separated by space , then
foo a a:b a:b:c will be "a a b a b c"

from there if i do the for loop and case above.. it will eliminate...

if i run the program >foo a a:b a:b:c it should result in a:b:c .. the uniq didn't work in the program.. i already made it line by line..... ==''



#!/bin/sh
result=$1
shift

for next...

so is there a way to eliminate the duplicates?

this is a done version of the previous thread. it concatenate all the arguments if they are not the same... however some case will make it a:a:b:a:b:c i try to change all the : into space and...

I try to simply concat the arguments if they are not the same..... what is wrong with this simple code for concat???



#!/bin/sh
result=$1

shift
while [ "$#" -ne "0" ]
do

just wanna thank mike for the follow up.... i was banging my head to get to sed to work until i saw the first post (thank to who posted too)... and i looked it up "basename" (i m pretty new to shell...

Question 1 I actually found it the answer true somewhere on a unix tutorial website.... however, i don't get what it meant by the largest pattern; to match with . or * , * is probably the larger...

this is homework and i probably shoulda mention. However, it is all open book open notes and free to discuss with classmates or anybody else. There are totally 42 questions and I am not sure about...

hi, i had a few unix questions that I am not sure about the answers. if anybody can give a try... that would be great.

1. In sed, when you do pattern matching, the largest pattern is always...

hey all,
just to echo myself.... instead of banging my head for solution of the sed and tr wutever.. it could be done by just :
path=/home/admin/foo
dirname /home/admin/foo

thanks...

Mike,
wow... you are genius! That is really helpful and I had never thought about using the saving to register.

However, i need the dir part of the $path but the last file. ...

cut works if I know the exact input path="/home/admin/foo"

but if path is an argument.... then it won't know cut -f what field.

what i need is ...

path="$1"
and if $1 is a...

The code "named mywhich" below does basically the same thing as the "which" command in sh does. however, if i do >mywhich wrongcmd wrongcmd2 wrongcmd3

it will only returns wrongcmd3 not found...

thanks alot... yes, i was writing my own version of the which. I have one more question and i think i can get it done. I'll post the code in another thread. Thanks for the help again.

thanks, and it definitely helps. I actually figured that out after a while. I have another question if anyone helps out, it would be so great.

say file=/home/admin/foo
and i want to delete...

hi,
does anyone know how to check if certain character is contained in the argument?

for example: > foo /home/myname

how should I check if the argument contains a "/" character?

thanks

first of all, what can i do to make my command works like the "ls, cp, mv" ?
I always do vi myScript.sh and then chmod +x myScript.sh and I have to execute it like ./myScript.sh ...

thanks very much. It definitely answered all I need to know. Thank you.

hello, I am writing a script to send email to all the users. Can anyone provide the syntax or internet source in reading line from a dir or text document?

if users are under /home like:
...

can anyone tell me how I can print the first or the last character from a sh file ?

i have done research on regular expression and the grep... i couldn't find any cmd that i can use to achieve...

actually, I don't quite get what it is actually questioning. I think it is asking how I should print out my current directory???

I had my answer pwd, cd . ,,, can you explain what the question...

What four ways can you specify the current directory in your PATH? for sh

This is a question that I couldn't get it right. I thought pwd is one of the way but it wasn't.

can anyone help?...

I know I can do " sed 's/old/new/g' filename to make the change to standard output.... however, is there a way that it would save the change to the file instead of just showing to the screen? ...

I am currently taking shell scripting online, my professor has emphasized again and again not to use csh. I haven't learn in depth the difference between csh and sh yet. Can anyone explain abit what...

would anyone please tell me how i cp the whole directory to another directory without the originalDir name....

ex: say the original contains multiple directory contains multiple directory.. and...

i used vi:
%vi shellProgramming

and then i typed the shell script in the vi and saved with :wq

However, when i run the vi file ...... %shellProgramming

my unix says "command not...

can anybody please give some quick reference in how to insert characters or line of characters to a file... and how to exit the insert mode in the regular expression.

ex:
ed try.txt
1,$p ...