Summary: hi guys, i really need some help asap. Im taking an OS class and we barely skimmed over Linux. We were asked a homework question that for the life of ...
Summary: i need help with a shell script that passes a variable. why does this not work?: echo $`echo 1` i want this to produce the same result as echo $1 bu...
Summary: Im starting to learn bash. i lvoe it. im trying to do something but want the easy way arround. I made this script: #!/bin/bash #Author = MrJake # #Des...
Summary: hi, I want to write a shell script which will execute some commnds in the script and create a resulted variable with all the results. e.g. -----------...
Summary: I have a shell script for applying security patches. The last thing I do in the shell script is restart the system in case any daemons have been updat...
Summary: I am trying to write a script(for use with cron) for our fileserver that will check to see if one or another usb external hard drive (SDA or SDB) is c...
Summary: Hi. I have two data files a.dat and b.dat. a.dat contains : s:b: h:g:wq and b.dat contains c:b d:b f:b w:r My output should be : s:b:c,d,f h:g:wq,r. H...
Summary: Hey guys, I need help really bad on this one script, it's for my class project and I am new to Unix and writing shell scripts. Can anyone PLEASE tell ...
Summary: To start a program in another window, you should be able to run something like: myshell "whatever command" So if the shell you use is 'bash', then it ...
Summary: I have been given an assignment for school, and well, I have no idea how to do it. Linux was not a pre-requisite for this class, and our book does not...
Summary: I need some help with a BASH script. I am just learning shell scripting and this assignment I have been given is difficult. Anyone that can help it wo...
Summary: Hi all. Just started using this ver of Slackware and have problem with using mailto in a shell script (used mail in the past and it worked fine). If...
Summary: I really need some major help with this Lab Exercise, I need to write a shell script to accept a file name and a directory name from the user. The scr...
Summary: Whenever I eject tapes it asks me "are you sure" and I have to hit the enter key to accept it. Is there a way to automate this. How would I tell shel...
Summary: Can any one of help in finding a coding standard for shell scripting. If any site is available for the same please mention or any existing doucument i...
Summary: Hi I'm new to shell scripts, so I'm hoping someone can help me with the following problem. I'm trying to write a shell script (bash) using Red Hat 7.1...
Summary: Hi, Can anybody help me with a function to get a 'C' program to run a shell script ? I imagine that you would need to use one of the exec functions bu...
Summary: I have generated a list of urls in a text file, the urls are seperated by a comma. I need a SHELL SCRIPT to read in each line of the text file and the...
Summary: hi I have a file f1. I wish to write a script in it that will help me add a word, w1 to every line in another file, f2... I dont want to traverse line...
Summary: Hi Friends, I am new to *nix I have a Shell Script like this in tomcat.sh file: for i in ${TOMCAT_HOME}/lib/* ; do if [ "$CLASSPATH" != "" ] ; then...
Summary: I would have a question on the command "getopts", if I want to perform a command with an unlimited argument such as: foo -cd {filename1 filename2 ...
Summary: How to write bourne shell script that will prompt the user for a number and which can be ended only by the user typing STOP. The script should igno...
Summary: I find bash shell script runs on unix does not run on linux(SUSE). For example even the following simplest one gives me an error on SUSE,but unix. I...
Summary: any1 got any idea how to write a bourne shell script that will print a file and then email a user the result of the printing, including a list of the ...
Summary: I am wanting to test the validity of a credit card number eg. xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx where x is a number between 0 & 9 inclusive. Can you write a linux shel...