In your book Wicked Cool Shell Scripts, on p. 115, Script #40 Reporting Disk Hogs, on the 8th line the second part of the line reads:     awk -F: '$2 > 99 {print $1} ') I am very new...

Continue reading about Bug in shell script using awk to read /etc/passwd?

I have a script that does an ftp from a SCO UNIX server to windows server to get files from the windows server. The script is set in the cron to run every xx minutes. Sometimes the script will hang...

Continue reading about How can my shell script test to see if it's already running?

I need help with a shell script! I want to prompt someone to enter an IP address the automatically increment it and output the sequence of that address and its following addresses, but I don't know how to do that:...

Continue reading about How do I increment IP addresses in a shell script?