> Now I want a shell script to automate this process.
Give us an idea of the kinds of repetitive commands you type in (and as skanke points out - which machine you type them on).

Perhaps then,...

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Lemme put it this way, I give you an answer.
33% chance you don't understand the answer at all
33% chance that you know it already
33% chance that there is something useful.

If you want to play...

How are we supposed to help, when you don't show what you're capable of doing yourself.

> plz just dont refer the man pages of linux plz
Why not? Sooner or later, you'll have to get to grips...

Well you'll need to call chdir() in the current process.

Each process has it's own "cd", so calling a process to change the current directory will only have a limited and local effect.

Looks like you've got a crappy date then, and you need to use the perl way you know.

$ date '+%m/%d/%Y':'%H:%M:%S' ; date --date='now -5 minutes' '+%m/%d/%Y':'%H:%M:%S'
08/26/2009:18:25:41
08/26/2009:18:20:41

Well how do you run a single test case at the moment?

How do you run several test cases? Is it typing in a somewhat repetitive command?

Post some examples.

And how much time have you spent reading manuals, trying things etc?

Use a different separator.
Eg.

sed -e "s@DATEST\@$DATESTART@g"

I can't figure out where the real separator is in the middle of the expression.
But you get the idea.

sed -e "s/DATEST\/08/25/2009:07:41:41/g"
One or more of the / in your dates needs escaping.

Step 1

MPUSED=`lsof | grep $MOUNT | awk '{print $2}' | sort -u`

This makes sure that each PID which might have open files is captured only once.

Step 2
Then do

for i in $MPUSED; do

I take the reference in your first post is for this?
http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato

First, do you have a complete bash, or is that a cut-down version as well?

The answer (maybe) to the first...

> #include "/home/yourdir/myInclude/header.sh"
Don't do this.
Absolute paths to header files are a disaster waiting to happen.
If you reorganise your workspace, or give the code to someone else,...

Windows comes with a "Task scheduler" which can be used for this.

> i actually FTP a compressed file from UNIX to Windows server
Did you use binary mode for the FTP transfer?

Is your next question going to be
"How do I do x in shell"
where x is some perl statement involving the USE of $dgs ?

There must be a reason for opening the port, which means there's going to be...

Use a while loop and the 'shift' method to process each argument in turn.

Use http://software.frodo.looijaard.name/getopt/

So what have you done so far?

Try this at the command prompt
for /?


The perhaps
if /?

mkdir /?

If you have a line
"their therapist is over there"

and you're searching "the", what would you want
0 - nothing matches the actual word "the"
1 - the line contains "the" somewhere
3 - there are...

Case labels are basically simple regex's.

So you might be able to do this

[0-4]*) echo "F”;;
5*) echo "D”;;
6*) echo "C”;;
7*) echo "B”;;
[89]*) echo "A”;;

You mean put the current working directory into the prompt "like DOS" ?

Or just type
pwd

So change the name in the find command.

Well you could read the intro guides on how to post code, perhaps format the script so it's easier to read.

As opposed to one massive 1-liner which no-one wants to look at at all.

http://www.rt.com/man/chmod.1.html

Piping works, if you can do this

open -e

/path/to/file

That is, if you just type in the "open -e", it gives you some kind of prompt for a filename.

If it doesn't do that, then piping...

find -mtime

Well you could have used code tags.

You seem to be managing at the moment.
Keep digging away at it :)

Well it's where I would start looking, if that's any use to you.

http://bashdb.sourceforge.net/bashdb-man.html
By convention, a -- option turns off all further option processing, and treats the rest of the command line as parameters.

The shell will allow you to create multi-line awk programs, which in this case would allow you to only read the file once, AND be sure that the $4 you see printed is the $4 being summed.

awk...

Strange, that would have worked - post your latest code.

I would have hoped after 40 posts that you would have figured this out.
Or at least read it.
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/announcement113-3.html

Why do you need the password?

The easiest way to get the password is to ask the user for it, and explain why you need it.

passwords are usually stored as hashes (a one-way function)....

Just put
ls
in there for now.

It's not magic, it's just a list of commands you want done every time you either login or create a new shell.

We're only going to throw you so many bones before we expect you to start reading the manuals and figuring out how to do this stuff.

In fact, just go read the manuals. No, you won't remember the...

sed, awk, or perl

Copy the example dot.bash_profile to your home directory as .bash_profile

Then start uncommenting the bits you would like, and adding any new things you would like.

Yes, you're using tr wrongly.
tr just translates (or deletes) characters. Not lines, or things matching lines.

You could try
grep -v $remEmp $dataFile > temp
mv temp $dataFile

which finds...