Help!

magnia

can someone tell me if this is right. i have to learn Unix for a job interview and im a tad lost. have to send them scripts by next week so have a week to learn it.

"Obtain a list of users (found in /home/) and append this to the contents of the 'dir_listing' (remember the '>>' command!)."

[john.casement1@unix chapter2]$ cd ~

[john.casement1@unix ~]$ users
abul.bashar belkacem.berbache diarmuid.kieran hardish.panesar john.casement1 mac aulay.adeji matthew.westwood matthew.westwood olivier.driard osama.ali razaq.kel ani razaq.kelani roger.ledreau yannick.arend

[john.casement1@unix ~]$ echo users >> coursework/chapter2/dir_listing

[john.casement1@unix ~]$ cd coursework/chapter2/

[john.casement1@unix chapter2]$ cat dir_listing
total 298
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 23 10:44 bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Jan 5 2007 boot
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 3680 Jul 30 09:37 dev
drwxr-xr-x 96 root root 12288 Aug 13 15:29 etc
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jul 30 17:03 fasttrack_materials
drwxr-xr-x 387 root users 32768 Aug 13 15:26 home
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 24 2007 leeb
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Jan 5 2007 lib
drwx

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2 root root 16384 Jan 5 2007 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 30 09:37 media
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 30 09:37 misc
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 30 2007 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 30 09:37 net
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 8 2007 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 227 root root 0 Jul 30 09:36 proc
drwxr-x--- 25 root root 4096 Aug 6 10:58 root
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 5 2007 rpms
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Jan 5 2007 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 5 2007 selinux
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 10 2006 srv
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 23 14:41 student_materials
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 0 Jul 30 09:36 sys
drwxrwxrwx 47 root root 98304 Aug 13 17:46 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 5 16:32 trainee_materials
drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle oinstall 4096 Feb 1 2007 u01
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Jan 27 2007 usr
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 27 2007 usrcampus
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Jan 5 2007 var
users


SHOULD I BE ABLE TO SEE THE USERS NAMES LIKE THEY ARE SHOWN ABOVE?

humbert

you don't want the echo there. just users >> coursework/chapter2/dir_listing

magnia

U Da Man!!!!!!!!!

Khannie

users found in /home (per the spec) is like this:

ls /home >> coursework/chapter2/dir_listing

or

ls -1 /home etc....

generalmiaow

agree with Khannie - `users` just has a list of who is logged in. also, if you want to echo the output of a command (which you don't need to do, since the command itself "echos", put the name of the command in backticks (` - not '), like

echo `users` >> file