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Why Do You Need the Explicit Pathname to Execute?

Hi! If your working directory contains a file you want to work on, or give as an argument, you don't have to give the explicit pathname, just the filename, like so: Code: $ vi while_loop.ksh But if you...

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Parenting A Geek

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Conduct a search or test -f over a path with spaces

I am organizing my music library on a NAS server. I want to print a list of all the directories that are missing the cover art (at least one or more jpeg file). I have successfully created a file with...

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Ftp script

I would like to write a script to ftp to 192.168.1.101 ( I have set .netrc , therefore no passwrod in remote server ) , and then get file "file.txt" , but it fails , can advise what is wrong ? thanks...

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Remove file elder than 90 days

I have crontab job a tar file to a directory ( tar -cvf /tmp/backup/or.`date +%m%d%y`. /ora/db/* ) , it will do it every day . Now I don't want to keep too much files , I just want to keep the file for...

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Adding SDK Build on Kernel Source Build

Hi, So I downloaded this kernel source and was able to build it successfully. But I want to add this SDK source code inside, can anyone help me how to do this? Note that the SDK source can be built by...

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Find specific files only in current directory...not sub directories AIX

Hi, I have to find specific files only in the current directory...not in the sub directories. But when I use Find command ... it searches all the files in the current directory as well as in the...

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Non interactive su in bash script

Hi, I have a python gui which allow users entering the root password, then a bash script is called to run "su" with the root password on the background. I could find a way to run "su" with a password....

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awk issue

Hi all, i am trying to use below command to see the output of hardware inventory, but i only see 2 first line no output of the command. Code: awk '/Hardware/ {print $0}' XXX_result.txt Hardware...

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Variable not an identifier when script is run as another user

I am new to scripting I keep getting the error var2= is not an identifier when I run this script as another user. BUT when I run it as myself, the script completes without error. Any idea why? I assume...

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Converting columns to matrix

Dear All I would like to convert columns to matrix For example my data looks like this Code: D2 0 D2 0 1.0 D2 0 D2 1 0.308 D2 0 D2 2 0.554 D2 0 D2 3 0.287 D2 0 D2 4 0.633 D2 0 D2 5 0.341 D2 0 D2 6...

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Merge column headers and transpose

Hello Everyone! I am new on this forum and this is my first post. I wish to apologize for my, not canonical, English. I would like to solve this problem but I have no clue of how do it!I will be...

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Mailx command - send mail as table format

I have to send a couple of rows that have been returned from a SQL query. I have written the output of the query to a file and while i try to print this in the mail body the formatting goes wrong....

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How to scrub directory only if on own partition/drive?

Hi all, I've been working on a script to run a disk wipe (using Jim Garlick's scrub tool) on the filesystem in Xerox production printer RIPs. Easy enough if there's just one partition, but I need to...

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Perl : joining alternate lines

Hi, I need to join every alternate line in a file for eg:input file Code: $ cat abc abc def ghi jkl output Code: abc def ghi jkl code i wrote for this Code: $ cat add_line.pl #!/usr/bin/perl -w my...

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Add newline to regex

I have a perl script that runs a program and puts the output of the program into a variable. The output of the file looks like: Code: Statistics 0     AverageTime: [0,0] Statistics 0     AverageTime:...

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Merge multiple lines to one line when line starts with and ends with

example: Code: comment Now_TB.table column errac is for error messages 1 - first 2 - second 3 -third ; in this example I need to be able to grab the comment as first word and ; as the last word and it...

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Does PID change from device to other!!!!

we asked to create a sender and receiver for a signals. sender knows his receiver by it's(receiver) PID .... my question is if i go to other computer and run my program will the pid chages than the...

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Adding a lines to specific section of the file.

Hello, I have to a add 2 lines to /etc/sudoers file under this section below, can someone please suggest script to add these two lines when execute this remotely on to a multiple servers. Code: before...

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Not logging ftp connections in /var/adm/wtmpx file (in last command output)

Hi all, I have F5 load balancer on my system and checking service status by opening an ftp session in every 30 seconds. These ftp sessions are being logged in /var/adm/wtmpx and filling up the file....

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