On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 19:49, Michael Adams wrote: > Stephen - bash handles appending > thus > ---------------------------------------- > date > /tmp/fortune.txt > fortune >> /tmp/fortune.txt > uptime >> /tmp/fortune.txt > > fortune > /etc/motd > ---------------------------------------- > should achieve the same thing. > > By the way is motd a standard thing? If not how do you implement it? > Presumably it means "message of the day".
Well, I like using sed - been using it for quite some time, and yeah, over the past 10 years bash has grown up and matured quite a bit - but I'm not about to read 300+ pages of documentation on bash scripting just yet...(g)...but it probably would... The "motd" is for mates that telnet in or for when I telnet in - kinda "old school" stuff - reminiscent of ancient *nix systems back at uni and *nix based bbs's...had to have a cute motd... You get the initial motd upon first login - but you can easily implement the same for each time someone opens a bash/csh/ksh/tcsh shell if you so desire - but that gets annoying... -- Sun Dec 29 21:15:01 EST 2002 9:15pm up 3:19, 3 users, load average: 0.29, 0.39, 0.33 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ Who does not love wine, women, and song, Remains a fool his whole life long. -- Johann Heinrich Voss
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