[bash-scripting] Forum Topics

First, it has been a LONG time since Ive been here. Good memories from when I was young. Anyways In a monitoring system I have, I had a plugin that remotely checked a SMB share and if the file hasnt been modified in 1 day, it should return a warning. …

trying to use sed command unsuccessfully c:\dct\ is what I want to have replaced with *raw sed -i 's/\c:\dct\/*/raw/g' adm2014.do i think the espace characters are throwing me off.

Hello DaniWeb / Linux Users and Programmers, I am 90% new to the world of Linux. I was instructed to edit a running program. The purpose of editing this program was to follow the format of the other running program. But it is hard for me to understand because some …

I am trying to understand one test script, which includes [CODE]if [ ! -f mahout-work/reuters21578.tar.gz ]; then echo "Downloading Reuters-21578" curl http://kdd.ics.uci.edu/databases/reuters21578/reuters21578.tar.gz \ -o mahout-work/reuters21578.tar.gz fi[/CODE] What does the condition of [CODE]! -f mahout-work/reuters21578.tar.gz [/CODE]mean? And what does [CODE]curl http://kdd.ics.uci.edu/databases/reuters21578/reuters21578.tar.gz \ -o mahout-work/reuters21578.tar.gz [/CODE]stand for? Thanks.

I am writing a simple shell script to automate a simple backup of a website and it's database. This is the working code: [CODE]#!/bin/bash # creates a backup of the mysql & webdata for a specific website. TODAY=`date +%A` # these variables cannot contain any spaces and must be modified …

what I'm trying is to write program that accepts list of user as its argument 1- If a user or more are given as arguments, the script should reset files permissions as follows: a. Directory ~/share to 750 (if it exists). b. All regular files inside ~/share to 744. c. …

Hi, as a bit of background, My Uni have lately implemented a CGI script so you have to log in to be able to use the wireless. This would be OK but they are terrible programmers and instead of timing out after a period of inactivity it will time out …

Hello all. With help on forum i've got the ideia of making the script to check if the file was created today and if its so,print its name. Here it is: [CODE] #!/bin/bash for file in *; do filedate= "date -r $file +%Y-%m-%d" currentdate= "date +%Y-%m-%d" if["$filedate" == "$currentdate"]; then …