Re: Cron (was Re: [newbie] newbie script help)

2004-01-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 04 January 2004 22:00, robin wrote: > > For those who think life is too short for vi, there is also kcron. > and Webmin Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.man

Re: Cron (was Re: [newbie] newbie script help)

2004-01-04 Thread robin
Paul wrote: On 01/04/2004 08:32 PM, mike wrote: I'll probably post back on the running the "cron" part but, I'll research it a bit more before I panic. :-) Your friends there will be: man crontab man 5 crontab and perhaps also man cron It is not difficult, just something you need to get used t

Cron (was Re: [newbie] newbie script help)

2004-01-04 Thread Paul
On 01/04/2004 08:32 PM, mike wrote: I'll probably post back on the running the "cron" part but, I'll research it a bit more before I panic. :-) Your friends there will be: man crontab man 5 crontab and perhaps also man cron It is not difficult, just something you need to get used to. "su" to

Re: [newbie] newbie script help

2004-01-04 Thread mike
Paul wrote: On 01/04/2004 07:30 PM, mike wrote: I think I understand the function is to take the oldest which is the first argument if it exists rename it to the second argument. Yup. So it cd's to my file directory and sees if wireless_stat3.tar it would filetest 3 4 (rename file3.tar to file

Re: [newbie] newbie script help

2004-01-04 Thread Paul
On 01/04/2004 07:30 PM, mike wrote: I think I understand the function is to take the oldest which is the first argument if it exists rename it to the second argument. Yup. So it cd's to my file directory and sees if wireless_stat3.tar it would filetest 3 4 (rename file3.tar to file4.tar) and 2 to

Re: [newbie] newbie script help

2004-01-04 Thread mike
Paul wrote: Hi Mike, Your script to 'logrotate' the files could look like this: #!/bin/sh filetest() { if [ -f wireless_stat$1.tar ] ; then mv -f wireless_stat$1.tar wireless_stat$2.tar fi } cd / filetest 4 5 filetest 3 4 filetest 2 3 filetest 1 2 The filetest function takes 2 arguments

Re: [newbie] newbie script help

2004-01-04 Thread Paul
Hi Mike, Your script to 'logrotate' the files could look like this: #!/bin/sh filetest() { if [ -f wireless_stat$1.tar ] ; then mv -f wireless_stat$1.tar wireless_stat$2.tar fi } cd / filetest 4 5 filetest 3 4 filetest 2 3 filetest 1 2 The filetest function takes 2 arguments, being the o

[newbie] newbie script help

2004-01-04 Thread mike
Greetings and Happy NewYear, I would like to write a script to accomplish a task, and then run it at regular intervals (I'll start another thread for that). The thing is I know zero about programming and in process of learning. I have a stand-alone firewall (mdk9.1) with no X installed, and a wi

Re: [newbie] script help

2003-01-02 Thread Mark Weaver
MG wrote: Hey Mark, I was just using "./HW" as in: [mike@avatar mike]$ ./HW What I gathered was if the script was in a directory, that was in my PATH, I could just use the name of the script instead of the whole path. I looked in my /home/mike/.bash_profile file and it said: [mike@avatar mike]$

Re: [newbie] script help

2003-01-01 Thread MG
Thanks Chuck! It works, I believe I understand now, thats why I got a "No such file or directory" it could not see it in the folder I made. again appreciate the guidance. Mike On Wednesday 01 January 2003 04:54 pm, you wrote: > Here's the rub, by type ./HW you are telling bash to run it in the >

Re: [newbie] script help

2003-01-01 Thread Chuck Burns
Here's the rub, by type ./HW you are telling bash to run it in the current directory. Also, path's are NOT recursive, so when you put it inside a second folder inside the ~/bin directory, it will not see it. Put the HW script directly into your ~/bin directory, then then type just HW (NOT ./HW)

Re: [newbie] script help

2003-01-01 Thread MG
Hey Mark, I was just using "./HW" as in: [mike@avatar mike]$ ./HW What I gathered was if the script was in a directory, that was in my PATH, I could just use the name of the script instead of the whole path. I looked in my /home/mike/.bash_profile file and it said: [mike@avatar mike]$ cat .bash_p

Re: [newbie] script help

2003-01-01 Thread Mark Weaver
MG wrote: Hi all, This question is not really Mandrake specific although I am using Mandrake8.2 (and like it alot!)...anyways trying to learn the bash shell. I wrote a small script (the "Hello World" script) and named it "HW". I did a "chmod 755" to it, so all could read and execute it. I made a /

Re: [newbie] script help

2001-04-05 Thread Michael R. Batchelor
>> listen <010:atm1.7530> >> listen <010:atm120.7080> [...] >> How I can extract of the second column since ':' to '.' >> example: >> <010:atm1.7530> atm1 >> <010:atm120.7080> atm120 > >cat datafilename | gawk -F: '{ print $2 }' | gawk -F. '{ print $1 }' > outfile > or $ cut -f 2 -d : datafile|

Re: [newbie] script help

2001-04-05 Thread Civileme
On Thursday 05 April 2001 15:52, you wrote: > Hi to all, > > If I have a file with the following data: > > listen <010:atm1.7530> > listen <010:atm120.7080> > listen <010:nac1.7506> > listen <010:ist1.7508> > listen <010:tar.7501> > listen <010:nacpos.7510> > > How I can extract of the second colu

[newbie] script help

2001-04-05 Thread Hipólito López
Hi to all, If I have a file with the following data: listen <010:atm1.7530> listen <010:atm120.7080> listen <010:nac1.7506> listen <010:ist1.7508> listen <010:tar.7501> listen <010:nacpos.7510> How I can extract of the second column since ':' to '.' example: <010:atm1.7530> atm1 <010:atm120.70

[newbie] script help

1999-07-21 Thread Robert Sheskin
I have a little log analysis perl script that I am trying to run. When starting form a terminal it works fine with the following in an executable script; #! /bin/bash echo "Mail Stats Log Analysis" echo "" su - root -c "DISPLAY=$DISPLAY; export DISPLAY; aterm -bg black -fg yellow -e perl /usr/bi