Thread: Write a bash script to produce the following screen

Write a bash script to produce the following screen:


The user’s home directory;
The user’s working directory;
List of processes owned by the user;
List of first twelve System Processes;
A count of the total number of processes running on Student UNIX;


This is the problem i have been given to do and would like some help with the code mainly for showing the users home directory and working directory. This must show the home and working directory for any user that logs on using the server.

Thanks

Hello,
Bash contains builtin variables that you can view by typing the env command. You can get some valuable information from that command. Such as Present /current working directory. You can use these variables to get what you are after.

Here is a snippet of the env output.

Code:

[jralph@jralph-linux ~]$ env
USER=jralph
HOME=/home/PFTCTRADING/jralph
PWD=/home/PFTCTRADING/jralph/notes
OLDPWD=/home/PFTCTRADING/jralph

In your script you can get these variables by echoing them. E.G.

Code:

[jralph@jralph-linux notes]$ echo $HOME
/home/PFTCTRADING/jralph
[jralph@jralph-linux notes]$ echo $PWD
/home/PFTCTRADING/jralph/notes

Hope this get's you started. You can post what you have so far and we can assist you.


EDIT:

Also have a look at the PS manpage. As well as the HEAD and WC man page for other requirements.

PS
UNIX man pages : ps ()

HEAD
UNIX man pages : head ()

WC
UNIX man pages : wc ()



EDIT:
Some examples of the variable echoing.

Code:

[jralph@jralph-linux notes]$ cat scripter.sh 
#!/bin/bash

echo "Hello the users home directory is $HOME"
echo "The users curent directory is $PWD"

If you run it you get.

Code:

[jralph@jralph-linux notes]$ ./scripter.sh 
Hello the users home directory is /home/PFTCTRADING/jralph
The users curent directory is /home/PFTCTRADING/jralph/notes

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