Summary: Please help me on two shell scripts: 1. the script simulates the ls -l command but prints only three columns of our choice. 2. the script makes a fil...
Summary: Hi, I'm running out of time and my shell script needs to: a)The user must be prmpted for the name of a directory containing some files. b) If files of...
Summary: Under Korn shell 1. write a script to backup a list of files 2. write a script to finds all soft links to specific file. Your kind help would be app...
Summary: I am struggling. Please help!! I need a shell script that searches for a string (and makes a backup file and substitution) but only if the string is f...
Summary: I am new to Unix and working on some simple shell scripts..Q. Create a script file that sums the numbers passed to it as arguments on the command ...
Summary: Hi, can anyone help me, I am doing an assignment and I'm having trouble figuring it out. First of all. I am using the Bourne shell and I need to displ...
Summary: I need help on writing 2 shell scripts: 1) Write a shell script, to be called `keep', that will take any number of file names as arguments. It sho...
Summary: I want to write bourne shell script called clean.Clean should move all files in a specified directory that has not been modified after the specified d...
Summary: i need to make a shell script that will take in two parameters: a directory and a size. it'll look somthing like this: filesize [dir] [size] (*where...
Summary: Hi, I'm new to shell scripting (ksh). I have a file called buildnumber.txt that has the value 1 inside it: #cat buildnumber.txt 1 I need to write a sh...
Summary: Hi, I am very new to Unix (taken one week of class so far) and have been given an assignment that I find impossible to accomplish. It seems like a...
Summary: Hi everyone... I posted about this before, but I'm still having some problems. My script below reads (or trys to at least) read in lines of a file an...
Summary: Hi All, I want to move the records with certain pattern from one file to other. Could you please anyone suggest me, what is the exact command (or sh...
Summary: Hello Linux users, can someone help writing script for follwing issue. I have one text file(abc.txt) which get updated when some third party program ...
Summary: Hi~ I'm running NetBSD-1.5.2 on the i386 platform w/ wscons enabled (virtual screens 0 thru 3) and am trying to add some C-shell scripting to my ~/.cs...
Summary: I need some shell scripting help please. I have an environment whereby the application is performing log rotation automatically. I would like to gzip ...
Summary: I need to write a shell script that find all files named user.cgi and move them to the /tmp directory, sending standard error to the bit bucket in one...
Summary: Hi, There are a number of login-id's connected to my system. When i run 'ls', i get the entire list of all files of all login-id's. I want a shell sc...
Summary: Here is a Korn Shell script that will also do what you want. It uses the built in features of the shell as opposed to calling awk to do the work. #!/...
Summary: Hi, I need to run a command and hit 4 times in response to the prompts after the command is run. I don't know how to do this in a shell script. Could...
Summary: Good afternoon, I need to create a Bourne shell script to have a pop up message display user's history every time they log in my system. The pop up ...
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: I'm completely new to shell programming. As this is quite urgent, please offer your help. Thanks a lot! If there is a text file which contains: 1. Amt...
Summary: I want to drive a shell script that will search a word in a text file and then display the line contains that word. For example: I have the file name...
Summary: I'm stumped with this program I'm working on, can someone help. I'm new to UNIX and wanting to learn. The program I'm working on is to: Write a Korn s...