BASH scripting help
 

I'm a newbie to bash scripting, and the past 2 classes we've taken a look at it. I've tried writing a script from scratch many times while looking at examples from the book, but I cant get the script to work at all, I'm completely lost. We were given a project to:

Anybody know what a script to do this would look like? Any help would be appreciated.

Please come back when you've got something to show. I don't mind helping out if you're really stuck but without showing what you at least tried you're asking us do your assignments. That's sad.

Is what I have:

#!/bin/bash


if [ -f "$1" ]

then

filename="$1"

set $(ls -il $filename)

filesize="$6"

hardlinks="$3"

owner="$4"

moddate="$7"

if [ "$filesize" == 0 ]

then

rm -r "$filename"

echo "$filename size was $filesize and was removed"

exit 0

else

echo "File Hard Links Owner Modified Date"

echo

echo "$filename $hardlinks $owner $moddate"

exit 1
fi
exit 2
fi


edit: I wasnt asking for my project to be done for me.

#!/bin/bash
if [ -f "$1" ]; then
# I use
f=( $(stat -t "$1") )
# Then filename is ${f[0]}:
echo "Filename: ${f[0]}" # etc etc
filename="$1"
# This doesn't do anything for me...
set $(ls -il $filename)

filesize="$6"

hardlinks="$3"
# owner could be:
f[4]=$(grep /etc/passwd -e ":${f[4]}" | cut -d ":" -f 1)
echo "Owner ${f[4]}" # etc etc
owner="$4"

moddate="$7"

if [ "$filesize" == 0 ]

then

rm -r "$filename"

echo "$filename size was $filesize and was removed"

exit 0

else

echo "File Hard Links Owner Modified Date"

echo

echo "$filename $hardlinks $owner $moddate"

exit 1
fi
exit 2
fi


edit: I wasnt asking for my project to be done for me.
Np. It's just we sometimes have ppl around thinking we do their assignments. If you've got probs with a script, try executing it as "sh -x <script>" or with logging as well: "sh -x <script> 2> <logfile>".

Edit: uhm, to clarify "doesn't do.*" should read "ain't my style". I mean it doesn't mean it doesn't work...

Thanks. I tried yours and was getting the same error, so I Did the sh -x script, with the error to a file. It was giving an error on line 31. So out of the blue I moved the first echo up on to the same line as the else statement and it works. :)

I'm going to do the same thing with the script I wrote also, to see if thats what was causing my problems.

Again, thanks for the help :)