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Awesome, that's exactly what I was searching. Thanks BingBongWongFooey. Nothinman, sorry for the confusion, I used "bash" in the title to keep the windows folks away heh.. Frank

Hello! I'd like to know how can I get the line number of a specific word (found using a regular expression) in a text file using a bash script? Thanks everyone :) Frank

I did a few tests and it pointed me out that 2> /dev/null is not the same as > /dev/null 2>&1. From my tests, I think that the difference is that the first one only hides the error messages and the second one hides the error messages AND the normal stdout messages. Frank

Ahh, you are right, I forgot this one :S Is 2> /dev/null the same as > /dev/null 2>&1? Thanks, Frank

Ah! Thanks all for the answers, I got everything working properly now. The only problem is the /dev/null'ing of some commands that doesn't work.. :S Is there any way of "muting" a command by using quotes? > /dev/null isn't working on every command that outputs something. Thanks, Frank

I worked some time on it and now it works better, it says, as the error: Looks like it performs $2 as a command?!?!?!? BTW: As soon as this part works, I'll > /dev/null the output of tar to hide the Removing leading`/` from member names.. it's quite ugly :P Thanks, Frank

Ooops, was wrong, I used `, not single quotes. If I remember, I tried modifying the script to try it with `s, 's and "s. Which one should I use for date, so I could work on the problem while being sure that I used the right quotation..? Thanks, Frank

Single quote, even though, could there be anything else causing the script error? Thanks, Frank

Yep yep, it's me again! In my kick-ass script *roll eyes*, I want to do a tarball backup of a user's home directory and then delete the user's account and the user's home directory, leaving a tarball backup of the deleted directory in /root/users_deleted. Here's the part of the script: With...

Once again, you solved my problem! Very interesting thread btw. Thanks again! See you in my next Q thread ;) Frank

After reading back my code.. looks like that the "working" code doesn't work, as it adds a user IF it finds the line with the user in /etc/group. Because it adds the user, it means that it can find the line with the user, a line that doesn't exist. Now I'm all mixed up :S Frank

Hello! It's me again! I got a big problem that I could bet 50$ that it is a dumb one (as always, big problems are always easy to solve, you just need to think about it :S). What I want to do is to cat | grep /etc/passwd to see if a user exists on the system. I also tried with ls -lh /home...

Ahhh, needed a blank space between the " and the [ ]'s... Can't beleive I lost all this time on a dumb problem like this one :S Thanks again folks!

Thanks for searching but I've been working on this problem for more than two hours and, according to this how-to: should work as asked, but in fact, all it says is an error such as: This error is all I could get in the hours I worked on this problem :( Frank

Hello! I'd like to know how, in my bash script, I can compare a variable to a text string.. just like in php: The variable needs to be compared to a text string, no numbers :) Thanks all! Frank