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A simple shell script

A simple shell script, Just diplays the user and date with a calendar

IngeniousHax	26 May, 2009 - 03:05 PM Post #1
D.I.C Addict Joined: 28 Mar, 2009 Posts: 607 Thanked: 14 times My Contributions	if anyone could maybe give me a link to a good beginners shell scripting pdf or anything, I'd greatly appreciate it. What is the wc -l command in this little program? # # # Script to print user information who currently login , current date & time # clear echo "Hello $USER" echo "Today is " ;date echo "Number of user login : " ;who \| wc -l echo "Calendar" cal exit 0 Sorry for no code brackets, I tried it and it wouldn't post it, just gave me the timer running infinitely.
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mocker	RE: A Simple Shell Script 26 May, 2009 - 03:15 PM Post #2
D.I.C Regular Joined: 14 Oct, 2007 Posts: 433 Thanked: 33 times Dream Kudos: 25 My Contributions	wc -l is used to count the number of lines. wc by itself counts words. A lot of shell scripting is knowing how to use the command line properly. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html is a pretty good introduction, and don't forget to abuse "man" to find out more information about a program. You can lookup the man pages at http://linux.die.net/man/ as well, which I find to be easier to read
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IngeniousHax	RE: A Simple Shell Script 26 May, 2009 - 03:38 PM Post #3
D.I.C Addict Joined: 28 Mar, 2009 Posts: 607 Thanked: 14 times My Contributions	Excellent thank you. NOTE** for any mod that comes by and sees the double post, i apologise as my computer didn't show the post, and simply kept the sending timer running, so I would quit out, and that's why the second one has an image.
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