Simo Kauppi writes:
>Not sure if I understood the problem correctly, but how about:
>
>#! /bin/sh
>filechop () {
> #This function takes one file at a time and removes the bottom 6 lines.
> #Get a single numerical value stating how many lines are in the file.
> zlength=`wc -l $zonename|awk '{pri
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 08:45:38PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> A Bourn shell script I am trying to run isn't behaving like I
> expected it to and I am not sure how to make it play nice. There are
> a bunch of DNS zone files that need the bottom 6 lines chopped off and
> I hoped to do th
Marty wrote:
zlength='wc -l $zonename|(read len fname; echo $len;)'
Sorry, those single quotes should be backticks.
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Martin McCormick wrote:
"Roberto C. Sanchez" writes:
Why not just use wc and sed?
A good idea and also a good idea from Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
to use head -n -6. There is, however, a problem with that last
suggestion in that the script is actually being run on a FreeBSD
syst
"Roberto C. Sanchez" writes:
>Why not just use wc and sed?
A good idea and also a good idea from Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
to use head -n -6. There is, however, a problem with that last
suggestion in that the script is actually being run on a FreeBSD
system and FreeBSD's version of
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:59:29PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:57:13PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 08:45:38PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> > > A Bourn shell script I am trying to run isn't behaving like I
> > > expected it to and I
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:57:13PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 08:45:38PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> > A Bourn shell script I am trying to run isn't behaving like I
> > expected it to and I am not sure how to make it play nice. There are
> > a bunch of DNS
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 08:45:38PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> A Bourn shell script I am trying to run isn't behaving like I
> expected it to and I am not sure how to make it play nice. There are
> a bunch of DNS zone files that need the bottom 6 lines chopped off and
> I hoped to do th
A Bourn shell script I am trying to run isn't behaving like I
expected it to and I am not sure how to make it play nice. There are
a bunch of DNS zone files that need the bottom 6 lines chopped off and
I hoped to do that with a while loop driven by the ls command. In
order to loose the bo
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