You've posted it to wrong forum..
Post it here (http://www.daniweb.com/forums/forum72.html)..

Not clear what's the problem?
What's meant by "so that users can execute those by keeping the script inside the sudo menu" ?

Or use sed

1. You set the umask using umask command.
2. If you want to set "default" umask you add appropriate command (e.g. umask 002) in some initialization script. E.g. .profile or .bashrc etc.
3. Why?...

Does this help ?

#!/bin/bash

file_with_workstations_list=/tmp/input_list.txt

while read workstation_name
do
#do you stuff with workstation_name
echo "Read workstation name: "...

What in the name of thundering blisters you think guys here are for ?
Do you work ?!!
Post your code if you have a problem.. We're here to "help you do it" not "do it"..

With the special divine powers bestowed upon me I can see your makefile and see that on line number 3351 you have an extra comma which is causing this error. Remove it and it should work.

You could consider [mis]using logadm.
See "man logadm"
It gives you all that you need.

If you just wanna create file without any contents use the command that is meant for it. :)
Use "mkfile", or simply "touch" if you don't wanna complicate things.
If you want to write something in...

I don't think it's possible though I'm not 100% sure.
Here is what I found in the advanced scripting link I refer to.

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html#PARAMSUBREF

...

This is the Shell Scripting forum..

It's a common error to do:
number_of_lines=`wc -l file_name`

To be precise:
number_of_lines=`wc -l file_name | awk '{print $1}'`

Read this (http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/announcement8-2.html).
This is what I'll tell you..

#!/bin/sh

hardcoded_folder="xxx"

#expected args:
# $1: Relative path of file to be...

>> now how to append the script so tht it now inserts the first argument into the middle of the file and also the original file must retain its original name.
Not clear what you wanna do??
append...

Means look up "man df"

I didn't really get what you wanna do, stupid it may sound but if what you want all 250 .temp_as_$fname/IDX_Issue.txt and .temp_as_$fname/TXT_Issue.txt files concatenated into one single file (or 2...

Use awk (hint: Use getline()). Post your code and I'll correct it.