On Tuesday 03 June 2008 14:12, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Monday 02 June 2008 22:57, Mumia W.. wrote: > > On 06/02/2008 01:14 PM, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > [...] > > > Could someone suggest a script I could put in ~/.kde/autostart that > > > would put up an xmessage saying when the system was last updated, when > > > I boot up Lenny? > > > > > > Much appreciation to all you scripting gurus out there. > > > > > > Nigel. > > > > I'm hardly a scripting guru, but this may help you a bit: > > > > #!/bin/bash > > hist_files="$HOME/tmp/tmp/history-files" > > lastupd=`ls $hist_files | sort -n | tail -1` > > xmessage "The system was last updated on $lastupd" > > Hi. Thanks for the little script. I have a problem understanding the > hist_files= line. The xmessage just says "The system was last updated on", > and no date of the lastupdate is mentioned. > > I ran ls /home/djmons/History-files | sort -n | tail -1, and the date of > the latest file is printed out in the shell, so that bit is working ok. > > I did change history-files to History-files on the hist_files= line, to > reflect the correct name for the directory where the history files are > kept, but no change. What does the /tmp/tmp signify on that line. It seems > as if the path to where the history files are is not correct. > > Nigel.
Well, I appear to have resolved the problem by commenting out the hist_files= line, and changing the lastupd= line, as below. lastupd=`ls /home/djmons/History-files | sort -n | tail -1` xmessage "Last updated on $lastupd" Now the xmessage displays correctly with the date of last update. Thanks for the help with the script. Nigel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
