Re: OT: Shell script

2005-07-11 Thread Gerhard Meier
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 01:36:31PM -0500, Brian Henning wrote:
 I want it to be able to get a filename without the extention on the end.
 [...]
 file.mp3
 
 i would like it to return 'file'.

Well, I like the following solution, because it doesn't fork:

FILE=file.mp3
echo ${FILE%.*}

bye,
Gerhard
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Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-20 Thread Gerhard Meier
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:41:57AM -0200, Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote:
 I have a machine with FreeBSD 5.3 - release -p2.
 
 I have installed bash from ports.
 
 How is possible to use bash in root account ?

Do not change the shell of the root account. If you have /usr or
/usr/local on a separate partition, and you cannot mount for some
reason, you wont be able to fix that, without booting from
another device.

But you can change the shell of the toor user, who has also a uid
of 0.

/GM
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Re: what does rm // delete?

2004-11-30 Thread Gerhard Meier
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:58:16AM +0100, Oliver Fuchs wrote:
  rm -rf /path/to/dir/with/rogue/file
 
 Tried it but had no chance.
 In any case I had to formate that drive new so I finally made it to
 disappear.

You did not try fsck before this radical method?

/GM
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