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this script still complains about the use of -lt because that expects integers [CODE] #!/bin/sh q=1.170 while [ $q -lt 1.405 ]; do echo $q q = $(( $q + 0.005 )) done [/CODE]

probably something like [CODE] #!/bin/sh if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then echo "usage: waiton <user> <frequency>" exit 0 fi user=$1 frequency=$2 if [ -z "${frequency}" ]; then frequency=60 fi while $(true); do count=$(who | grep ${user} | wc -l) if [ ${count} -gt 0 ]; then echo "user ${user} …

would think you first need to decide how you will pull out the columns from the files. what is structure of your files, and what separates out the columns, if is simple separator (for example a | symbol) - then you might use something like: [CODE] awk -F \| '{print …