Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 13:00:02 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> To: J A Shamsi <jashamsi@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: scripts Message-ID: <3989A512.3FCA2E7@wmptl.com> References: <20000803155918.1816.qmail@web4105.mail.yahoo.com>
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J A Shamsi wrote: > > HI > I am new to shell scripting, > I would like to create a script in bash shell. > that would do the following > > 1) find out the latest file ( text file)in a directory > ( there are bunch of files in a dir) > > 2)open that file (text file) and parse the > values seperated by comma and store them in variables. > > just wondering is there any howto or documenation > available on the web, or if anyone has any idea... > > thanks > > jas > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. > http://invites.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Personally, I'd use PERL for something like that. I don't know if it would be possible to do it solely with a BASH script? -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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