Hey there,

If you're doing this for C, you can just use quotes instead of the angle brackets, like

#include "/home/yourdir/myInclude/header.sh"

If you're using a shell and your includes are...

Hey Chris,

It looks like just a simple typo in Aia's reply. Just change $8.2f to %8.2f and you should get "1.20"

, Mike

Hey there,

You could use the output of netstat and pipe that to a line count. Something like:

netstat -an |grep "[2]3"|wc -l

althought that might give you some false positives and you...

Cool,

Good job :) I was going to suggest this for your if statement, but I guess I should have read farther down ;)



Either way's good :)

Best wishes,

Hey Richard,

For both of those, you can capture the output of your test commands using backticks (will work in any shell) or the $() test in bash

For instance, you could take your statement:
...

Hey,

Glad I could help. In the process, you taught me a cool trick. I never knew you could do that... all those years.... exiting over and over again just to get out of a terminal session. It...

Hey there,

Sometimes it will work if you just replace your exec call with a simple direct call, so instead of:



just do

<-- Since you're not exec'ing (i.e. replacing the current process...

Hey there,

This should work:



Best wishes,

Mike

Hey There,

Also, at the end of your code if you change:

echo "${name}:${phone}:${address}" >> addressbook.txt

to

echo "${name}:${phone}:${address}" > addressbook.txt

Good deal :)

Glad to help!

, Mike

Hey There,

You're probably running into an issue with -p if you're just using a plaintext password. It expects the password to be encrypted using the crypt program (apologies if my assumption is...

Hey there,

That can be done. Try this first though, since I find that "human readable" output is usually off. I would grab the information in kb and convert that to Mb. It will probably be more...

Hey There,

You coud use the output of format, although if you wanted to automate, you'd have to pipe the right commands to it and then do some processing on the other end, eg, for disk 0:


...

Glad to have been part of the solution for once ;)

best wishes,

, Mike

Hey there,

Just in case you have to do it the second way, this form works in bash 3.x (possibly earlier versions) and avoids the variable scoping problem while maintaining the integrity of the...

Hey, ok, I see where you're coming from now :)

Actually, if you don't know where a particular process logs to, figuring that out from the process itself can be done, but it's not necessarily...

That's an excellent suggestion, comatose. I also didn't realize what a huge pain this whole thing was for you, glamiss.

I think leaving the nice value at 0 (default) will make your program hog...

Hey there,

I'm sure what you're shooting for but, maybe:

LOG=${PROCS}.log

$LOG "0"

or

Hey there,

If you're running syslog-ng, look into that. It has a history of doing exactly what you're experiencing.

Otherwise, since you know this action is recurring (something is chmod'ing...

Hey There,

Two things, I think:

1. You're not stripping the literal dollar sign from the figures you're trying to add

2. Since you're invoking awk twice, you need to include your BEGIN...

Hey There,

It might have to do with the user agent string that wget passes to the site (I think it's something like wget-version). You can manipulate the --user-agent= variable to pass anything,...

Hey again,

I sent you another PM - I think we have it this time (there's only, I think, one other option ;)

, Mike

Hey again,

Yes, I did and (thank you so much for the find output) I realized that I have been misunderstanding you this entire time. I wrote you back via PM so as not to take up too much space,...

Hey there,

Very basicly, it's an integer used to identy an open file in a process. In Unix/Linux/Posix 0, 1 and 2 are generally reserved for STDIN (standard input), STDOUT (standard output) and...

Hey There,

Another way to go about it would be to do the math incrementally, within the loop, to avoid any possibility of losing the variables value when you exit the loop due to scope issues. ...

Hey There,

Okay - good :) As long as all you got back where directories and they were all named events1, events2, etc. If possible, can you PM me the output? If you're getting back any results...

Hey Again :)

Actually I was just asking if you could run either of those command from the command line (outside of the script) and see the output from those :)



all by itself should be good...

Hey,

Don't worry. You don't sound dumb. If you were dumb, you wouldn't ask questions ;)

Actually if you could do the find command with your full path and then the same with $EVENTDIR, that...

Also, as Salem pointed out, don't forget to use the preceding $ character when you're extracting values from your variables.

Best wishes,

Mike

Hey there,

Well that's good news of a sort, since it's bringing us closer to an answer. Since that gives you same result from the CLI, I would take a look at this find statement:



on its...

Bummer,

BTW, can you let me know exactly what distro of Linux or Unix you're using? Then maybe I can replicate the problem just the same.

Also, I know these simple questions (no offense), but...

Hey There,

JUST FYI - IMPORTANT NOTE FOR YOU - You dotted out the top path, but didn't dot out the path in the bash -x output. If this is material you don't want put out for public consumption,...

Hey again,

The next thing to try would be to leave your cron entry the same, but on your shebang line in the script, instead of

#!/bin/bash

use

#!/bin/bash -x

Hey There,

Probably this line:



should have been written as

Hey,

No problem, glad to help out anyone who's willing to give it a shot and gets stuck. Happens to all of us :)

Here's a rewrite of that script (I didn't fully test the way it will work with...

Aia is correct about crontab -e. It does do checking, which is why I put that at the other end of the pipe :)

Basically the reason your script failed is that you need to actually put the control...

Hey There,

You can also use "diff -r -y" if your version of diff supports it. This will give you output like:



Just another option if you can use it :)

Best wishes,

Hey There,

You can work it in where you like, since you setup a lot of variables, but generally, I suppose, you could use the code



right around this part

Hey, Great - I hope it works out :)

Just to answer your questions:

mgolvach@tlaum-pc1 ~ is just my command prompt from my x86 linux box

The DO NOT COPY header is put in there by crontab. ...

Hey There,

I think I get what you're going for. You could use this inside your script to do what you want, I believe:

find /path/to/events -name "events*"|while read x
do
zip -r...