topic Re: edit on .profile in Operating System - HP-UX

edit on .profile

Jim Lewis_8 — Mon, 05 Aug 2002 19:28:29 GMT

Is there a way to make a change on a one line entry in each of the user's .profile removing the umask entry all together. I have over 600 users to make this simple change on their corresponding ".profile" and I'm not that experienced in HP-UX 10.20 programming.

Thank you....

Re: edit on .profile

Hai Nguyen_1 — Mon, 05 Aug 2002 19:37:55 GMT

You can run the following script to remove the umask line in all users' .profile

---- script starts -----
#!/bin/sh

find /home -type f -name '.profile' | while read FILE
do
if [ `grep umask $FILE` -eq 0 ]
then
grep -v umask > $FILE.new
cp $FILE.new $FILE
rm $FILE.new
fi
done
----- script ends ------
Hai

Re: edit on .profile

Jim Lewis_8 — Mon, 05 Aug 2002 19:55:24 GMT

I created a file called rmumask.com and it failed due to a parameter problem...any suggestions?

Error:

./rmumask.com[5]: test: Specify a parameter with this command.

Thank You....

Re: edit on .profile

Christopher McCray_1 — Mon, 05 Aug 2002 20:00:42 GMT

Show us your file so we can see anything possibly out of the ordinary.

Thanks

Chris

Re: edit on .profile

Jim Lewis_8 — Mon, 05 Aug 2002 20:03:11 GMT

I cut/pasted the suggestion from Hai exactly where the start and end points were (not including that text) and made it executable. It's the same file word for word with the same lines.

Thanks!

Re: edit on .profile

Hai Nguyen_1 — Mon, 05 Aug 2002 20:07:48 GMT

Jim,

Can you post the file?

Also in case you do not know, you need to make the file executable as follows:

# chmod 755 rmumask.com

By the way, I believe that there is no error in my script.

Hai

Re: edit on .profile

Jim Lewis_8 — Mon, 05 Aug 2002 20:15:33 GMT

Posting of file, permissions set to 755...

< ca_tok1 > /tmp #more rmumask.com
#!/bin/sh

find /home -type f -name '.profile' | while read FILE
do
if [ `grep umask $FILE` -eq 0 ]
then
grep -v umask > $FILE.new
cp $FILE.new $FILE
rm $FILE.new
fi
done

Re: edit on .profile

Hai Nguyen_1 — Mon, 05 Aug 2002 20:15:35 GMT

Jim,

Actually, there is a logical missing in my script. It should have been as follows:

---- script starts -----
#!/bin/sh

find /home -type f -name '.profile' | while read FILE
do
grep umask $FILE >/dev/null
if [ `echo $?` -eq 0 ]
then
grep -v umask > $FILE.new
cp $FILE.new $FILE
rm $FILE.new
fi
done
----- script ends ------

Sorry. It must work this time.

Hai

Re: edit on .profile

Hai Nguyen_1 — Mon, 05 Aug 2002 20:17:52 GMT

Jim,

I spotted another missing parameter. This is the final one:

---- script starts -----
#!/bin/sh

find /home -type f -name '.profile' | while read FILE
do
grep umask $FILE >/dev/null
if [ `echo $?` -eq 0 ]
then
grep -v umask $FILE > $FILE.new
cp $FILE.new $FILE
rm $FILE.new
fi
done
----- script ends ------

Hai

Re: edit on .profile

Jim Lewis_8 — Mon, 05 Aug 2002 20:36:44 GMT

Bingo! The script ran flawlessly. Thank you for your help. Sorry it took so long to work out the details, but you saved me lots of time through it all!

Re: edit on .profile

Hai Nguyen_1 — Mon, 05 Aug 2002 20:40:04 GMT

Jim,

I'm glad that I could help.

Hai

Re: edit on .profile

Charles Akonnor — Wed, 07 Aug 2002 13:08:07 GMT

#gets all home directories from /etc/passwd

cat /etc/passwd|awk -F: '{print $6}'|while read i
do
#safe a copy of each .profile to .profile.org
cp ${i}/.profile ${i}/.profile.org

#removes the line with umask in profile.new
cat ${i}/.profile |grep -v umask > ${i}/profile.new

#moves new profile to .profile
mv ${i}/profile.new ${i}/.profile
done