shell scripting

unSpawn · 11-18-2003, 05:53 PM

i insert in in my script and it DOEST wrk
Just post what you've got?

BTW, "test -z file && exit 1" should read "test -z "$file" && exit 1"

glock27linux · 11-18-2003, 06:29 PM

I found www.linuxcommand.org to be a very comfortable introduction to shell scripting with Bash. I would walk thru that tutorial if I were you. It might fill in some spots for you, and perhaps make you more comfortable with looking at advanced tutorials.

tiger3 · 11-20-2003, 03:49 PM

Try awk! I got this to work for me.

It will give you the date/time modified and the file name. To change the info provided just use $1, $2, etc.... for the different fields of the output from the ls command ($1 would be the permissions -rwx--x--x and so on...)

read -p 'Enter filename: ' \file
if [ -f $file ]
then
ls -l $file| awk '{printf "%2d %3s %s\n", $7, $6, $9}'
else
echo $file is not a file
fi