From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 8:59:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web4105.mail.yahoo.com (web4105.mail.yahoo.com [216.115.104.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5873F37BADE for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 08:59:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jashamsi@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20000803155918.1816.qmail@web4105.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.244.44.98] by web4105.mail.yahoo.com; Thu, 03 Aug 2000 08:59:18 PDT Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 08:59:18 -0700 (PDT) From: J A Shamsi Subject: scripts To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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