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Hi.. im a newbie in shell scripting, and also new in this forum.. i understand the command below is just reading from /etc/passwd and getting whatever in field 1 and 3 (which are username and userID) after the cut the format will be username:uid my guess,its making the array with …

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hi, Is it possible to run a gedit command in the terminal that will create a text file automatically and save it in my desired file extension? For example, if I run: gedit file.txt by default, it will open a null document named file.txt. But all I want is to …

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[COLOR=#000000]Hi Code gurus!!...my first post in this forums and I m new to shell scripting too!...I need a shell script to accomplish the below, any input will be greatly appreciated..[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Below is a sample content of a text file, [B]file1.txt[/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]AMPS,2324,Subscriber,Unknown,SingleDay,20070413,20070413,[/COLOR] …

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Hi all, I am new in shell scripting and I would like to make a bash script which will inform me if one of my friend is already logeed in. If a friend is logged in I want to take as output USER1 : is in. else USER1 : last …

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awk '{print NR SEP $0}' SEP="/ " exfile1.txt > try2.txt here is a awk scritp which copies the contents form one to anthor it works well, but how do I change it to copy the contents in to several files ? can any one help please

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I'm trying to add a zero at the end of the data that start with 62018 (it will always start with 62018) UNB+UNOA:1+5030917029608:14+5000119000006:14+070509:0850+62018000100020[B][U][COLOR=red]0[/COLOR][/U][/B]++INVOIC any help would be appreciated. Thank you JG

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Hi i'm using Cywin bash shell, I am trying to scan my entire hard drive for an executable that contains text references to an ocx called ezVidC60.ocx (it appears to be used by both malware and non malware programs, I need to work out which). In Windows the dll and …

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Hello everyone, Given a list of output that looks like this (from NetBackup bpimagelist if any of you are familiar), I need to pick out the last full backup closest to the end of the quarter (3/30, 6/30, 9/30 12/31). 10/20/2006 21:24 INFINITY 146144 64213523 N Full Backup 10/13/2006 21:46 …

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hey guys, can anyone tell me what's wrong with my code? im trying to test if the input ($no) is a number: [code] read no echo $no | egrep - c "^[0-9]*$" | wc -l > y [/code] y now should be 1 if the user enters a number but …

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Hello Master Scripters, I am in scripting nursery and I am trying to write a script that will replace string a with string b. I can get my script to replace single strings with no problem, my issue arrives when one of my strings has two words. I am pretty …

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Hi, I'm new to shell scripting. I need to make a script to add on to my cronjobs. The script must get the value of load average from my server and if its greater than 10 it should stop my apache service. I cant find a way to get the …

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hey, guys im new to UNIX and i need help.. I need to write a script which will tell you if you entered an even (e.g., 2, 4, 6...) or odd number (e.g., 1, 3, 5...) and then give you the summation of the number you entered. For example, if …

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i am looking for a good tut for shell scripting if anyone know's a good please post here thanks :)

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hi, i have just started with scripting and read several tutorials. But i have some doubts, 1) How do i print the file access permission(FAP),... not changing the FAP... but printing it ?? 2) how to search for duplicate files in current directory ? 3) how do i validate a …

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Hi All, We now have a Log file which has time stamps of all the scripts ran. It has start time and end time. I now have a requirement to send mail to the Admin after the script finishes running. Can some one help me with a Script which will …

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Hi, I was just wondering if there is any difference between the following below: [B]1.[/B] function[B] func_name() [/B]{ //bash statements } and... [B]1. [/B]function[B] func_name [/B]{ //bash statements } NB: diff b/w 1 and 2 is that there's no () in 1... Also how can a function be defined inside …

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Hi all, anyone tried HLS firewall? [URL]http://homelansecurity.sourceforge.net/[/URL] Basically, i am designing a web based front end (using php) for this program so i have completely 'turned off' custom.conf. The idea is that for instance if i want to block icmp pings, i'll just click a check box say, which then …

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i wrote this script, and everytime i run the script the code deletes and i want to know why EDIT: i also chmod 755 if anyone wanted to know [code] $ cat > ispostive #!bin/sh # # Script to see whether argument is postive # if test $1 -gt 0 …

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Hi, im in the process of developing an iptables firewall for personal use...Being a newbie in shell scripting im trying to adapt a code i found here:[URL]http://homelansecurity.sourceforge.net/script.php[/URL]. thanks to [J. Howard.] but dont quite understand this block of code below especially the content of '$1' variable as related to the …

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hi DW Shell Script Kings :) i have some problem in a step of my assignment. thats i can read the file with this : [CODE] #Read all text from file echo -n "Enter file name: " read fileName while read inputline do echo $inputline done < $fileName [/CODE] how …

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I am using an array (clmlist01). I have 61 of these and have 4 or more references to each one in a block of code that I do not want to have to hardcode 61 times. With that being said, I am creating a varible and going through a for …

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1) I need to create a simple bash shell script that will promt the admin for a user name and then create the user account and change password... thx a lot......

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Hi Experts I've less idea abt unix shell script. my requirement is the shell script should take a input of a file name and shud check if that file name is present in the particular folder which is hardcoded. if not then wrtie the file there or if found write …

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I wrote a script as below #!/bin/bash echo $1 > temp cat $2 >> temp mv temp $2 # this command helps us to retain the original name of the file # now how to append the script so tht it now inserts the first argument into the middle of …

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Hey guys, i am about to throw it all in because i just cannot get this to work :S. All i wanted to do is search through a file and find a string and replace with an argument from the command line. So basically i have a file which has …

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i need to find if the system has the latest version of a particular package and install if it dosent. how do i compare the versions? assume that i use rpm to find the installed version and a separate file has info of the required(latest) version. how do i do …

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I want to mount windows share folder in linux. I m using Samba.. please tell me i need to do some thing on windows side or not.. I m able to see linux folder in windows ... but not reverse... i given command.. mount -t smbfs -o username=guest //1.7.9.1/Build_stage /mnt/ntserver …

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Hello, I'm still new to linux, and im looking for some helpful ideas. What I'm trying to do is I need to write a script that will take a text file, which has paragraphs and create another text file which extracts every individual word from that orignal text file and …

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hi can anyone please write me a shell script that checks whethera filesystem is full or not hoping to get replies. thanks in advance...

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hi friends,,, I have two type of files one .txt format another one is .idx format.. txt file have 7 columns delimited with "|" idx file have 7 columns demilited with "," i have to compare the txt file 2nd and 3rd column with idx 3rd and 4th column. Here …

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