This is an AIX scripting question but I'm hoping somene can help

XtremeDawg · 12-19-2003, 11:30 AM

We have a script that has the following lines:

case $1 in
t | "") grep LINE= */.profile|
awk -F"/|=| " '{printf "%.3s \t %s \n",$3,$1}'|
sort | more
exit 0 ;;

The grep portion pulls the following from a file:

EXAMPLE 1

felicia/.profile: then LINE=113; export LINE # TERMINAL_NUMBER set by

EXAMPLE 2

butch/.profile:LINE=47;export LINE

The output it gives looks like this:

felicia
47; butch

We want it to look like the second line of the output for all. WE think the problem is in the awk command but don't know how or if we can fix this.

Anyone that can help?

crabboy · 12-19-2003, 12:58 PM

It looks like felicia's LINE assignment is in an if/then statement. You can either change the if/then or the script.

Code:

OLD:
if [ whatever ]
then LINE=45; export LINE
fi

NEW:
if [ whatever ]; then
LINE=45; export LINE
fi

Or change the script. This one below can handle both cases. I usually don't mess with awk given it's complexity and I can never remember everything. Here I use cut.

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

HOMEDIR=/home

searchProfile()
{
   for i in `ls -l $HOMEDIR | grep ^d | awk ' { print $9 } '`; do
      PROFILE="$HOMEDIR/$i/.profile"
      if [ -x $PROFILE ]; then 
         ALL_LINE=`cat $PROFILE | grep "LINE="`
         if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
            echo "No LINE for user $i"
         else
            NUM=`echo $ALL_LINE | cut -d '=' -f2 | cut -d ' ' -f1`
            echo "$NUM $i" 
         fi
      else
         echo "No profile exists for $i"
      fi
   done
}

case $1 in
   t | "") searchProfile;;

esac

XtremeDawg · 12-19-2003, 01:59 PM

Perhaps I should have explain what we are tring to do. We have 100 plus users in AIX and there are times when we need to know if a line # has been used. The script gives us a list of users with their line # based on what is in their .profile.

So changing the .profile is not something we want to do but having a script to list this in a nice neat way is. This script was written a while back by someone esle and I am just not understanding why it won't list all the same.

I doubt it will ever work like we want without changing the .profile though.

crabboy · 12-19-2003, 02:20 PM

The script I posted does not suffice? It looks, from your requirements, like it should.

Gary

XtremeDawg · 12-19-2003, 03:10 PM

I'll try it.

XtremeDawg · 12-19-2003, 03:36 PM

Based on what I could tell the HOMEDIR=/home should be pointing to where the .profile files are in your script. Each user has their .profile in a subdirectory of /home/udd.

Example for Sonny the path would be /home/udd/sonny/.profile

Any way to work around that because I am getting

No profile exists for sonny

as the output if I change the HOMEDIR=/home/udd. If I leave it as HOMEDIR=/home I get a listing for all of my directories under the /home directory. I tried this with HOMEDIR=/home/udd/Sonny and it returned no output.

crabboy · 12-19-2003, 03:49 PM

It should work if you make HOMEDIR=/home/udd.

If not, try to put an 'echo $PROFILE' under the PROFILE= in the script. This will echo the location it is checking for the .profile file.

I tried a quick test with HOMEDIR=/home/udd and the file in /home/udd/user/.profile and the script still worked.

XtremeDawg · 12-19-2003, 03:56 PM

So should it now look like this?

#!/bin/ksh

HOMEDIR=/home/udd

searchProfile()
{
for i in `ls -l $HOMEDIR | grep ^d | awk ' { print $9 } '`; do
PROFILE="$HOMEDIR/$i/.profile"
echo $PROFILE
if [ -x $PROFILE ]; then
ALL_LINE=`cat $PROFILE | grep "LINE="`
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "No LINE for user $i"
else
NUM=`echo $ALL_LINE | cut -d '=' -f2 | cut -d ' ' -f1`
echo "$NUM $i"
fi
else
echo "No profile exists for $i"
fi
done
}

XtremeDawg · 12-19-2003, 03:57 PM

If so then it is not working because this is the output I am getting now.

/home/udd/sonnyb/.profile
No profile exists for sonnyb

crabboy · 12-19-2003, 04:00 PM

Sorry, my bad. Change the -x to a -f in the test.

-x tests to see if it is executable.
-f tests if it exists.

XtremeDawg · 12-19-2003, 04:04 PM

Ok that works well. One last thing. Is there any QUICK way to have it ONLY list the

33;export trent

and not

/home/udd/trent/.profile

It list both now like the following

/home/udd/trent/.profile
33;export trent

I would like it neater but if not this is still good and will work.

Thanks!!

crabboy · 12-19-2003, 04:24 PM

Yes, remove the echo you added below PROFILE=

XtremeDawg · 12-22-2003, 02:45 PM

THANKS!!!