scmuser created the topic: Test your Shell Scripting Skills: – Program 14
Devise a script that allows a user to view, add, delete or modify a setting in a configuration file that contains these setttings in the form variable = value

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scmuser created the topic: Test your Shell Scripting Skills: – Program 15

Devise a script that creates a lock file which prevents more than one user from running it. The lock file must be removed before script termination or if the user presses the interrrupt key.

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scmuser created the topic: Test your Shell Scripting Skills: – Program 16

Assume that you have a number of files, downloaded from the internet, in the /home/kumar/download directory. The table of contents (TOC) is available in the file TOC_Download.txt in the form filename:description. The script should check each file in the download directory that does not have a description in the TOC file and prompt the user for the description. The TOC should be updated to maintain the list in sorted condition. The script must be immune to signals.

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scmuser created the topic: Test your Shell Scripting Skills: – Program 3

Write a script that lists files by modification time when called with lm and by access time when called with la. By default, the script should show the listing of all files in the current directory.

renjith replied the topic: Re: Test your Shell Scripting Skills: – Program 3

#!/bin/ksh
if [ $# -gt 1 ]
then echo ” Usage list.sh [ml|la] { expected arguments lm or la or null } “;
fi

case $* in
lm) ls -lrt ;;
la) ls -lru ;;
“”) ls ;;
*) echo “Invalid argument ”
esac

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