question in shell script

Discussion in 'Programming/Scripts' started by abood1190, Aug 29, 2011.

  1. abood1190

    abood1190 New Member

    Hell guys,
    I need a little help to solve this question

    Write a Bourne shell script which:
    • Has one command line argument.
    • If the command line argument is a directory then the script should output the number of files in the directory.
    • If the command line argument is an ordinary file then the script should output whether or not the file has execute permission for the file owner.
    • If the command line argument is neither a file or directory then the script should output an appropriate error message.
    • If no command line argument is supplied then the script should output an appropriate error message.
     
  2. till

    till Super Moderator Staff Member ISPConfig Developer

    You might want to take a look here first:

    http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

    If you wrote your execise script then and some parts of it wont work and you are unable to find the problem yourself, then post your script.
     
  3. abood1190

    abood1190 New Member

    this is my code
    Code:
    #!/bin/sh
    
    echo " Command line argument is :" $1
    
    if [ -d $1 ]
    then
    echo " The number of files in the directory is ` ls -l | wc -l` "
    else
    echo " It is not a dirctory "
    fi
    
    if [ -f $1 ]
    then
    echo " The execute permission for the file owner is ` ls -l $1`"
    else
    echo " There is no execute permission "
    fi
    the code might be wrong !!
    the time for submission is up !
    Thank you
     
  4. id10t

    id10t Member

    Smells like homework anyway...
     

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