This was a tricky action. Assume I have a list of variables, obtained by an external source: var1=a var2=b var3=c I cannot use loop and in it the phrase ${var$i} (where i is the integer counter). It just doesn’t work. I used this instead to assign the values to an array: var[$i]=$(eval echo "${var${i}}") That…
Let’s assume we have a file containing lines such as this: first last one two three four five If we write a simple script to deal with each line in a turn, we would write something like this: for i in `cat file`; do echo $i; done This would echo, however, each word at its…
Here’s a little script I’ve written which deletes older than AGE days files, and has an exclude list, just in case. It’s meant to be run by cron on a daily basis: #!/bin/sh # Source of all evil DIR=/ftp # Age of file in days AGE=10 # Exclude list – Use pipe (|) seperated values….
