From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 9:14:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cfdnet.me.tuns.ca (CFDnet.me.TUNS.Ca [134.190.50.164]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2F3C37B51D for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 09:14:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@cfdnet.me.tuns.ca) Received: from localhost (freebsd@localhost) by cfdnet.me.tuns.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA04073; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:14:23 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from freebsd@cfdnet.me.tuns.ca) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:14:23 -0300 (ADT) From: Theo Bell To: J A Shamsi Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: scripts In-Reply-To: <20000803155918.1816.qmail@web4105.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have used this URL in the past for BASH programming: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html Theo Bell CFDnet.com Development Team On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message