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| multiple argements to script | 11/15/2009 |
Q: How you feed multiple arguments to a script in bash? like ./script One Two Three Four ..so on (with ...
A: You can try using the bash getopts function. Please see the below link- ...
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| echo command | 10/27/2009 |
Q: If i want to output information about a file in this format: -rw------- 1 lczegel users 270 Jan ...
A: Sorry for the delay. You can try creating a script with the following code in it. Let me know if it ...
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| echo command | 10/26/2009 |
Q: If i want to output information about a file in this format: -rw------- 1 lczegel users 270 Jan ...
A: You can use the ls command to display the files in particular directory as follows - ls -l (This ...
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| echo command | 10/26/2009 |
Q: If i want to output information about a file in this format: -rw------- 1 lczegel users 270 Jan ...
A: I am not sure what is stored in $file. But you can try one of the following and check whether it ...
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| Kernel version | 10/17/2009 |
Q: I found google use linux as servers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform Can we know which ...
A: I am not sure which kernel version Google uses and I think they do not disclose this information. ...
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| octal codes | 10/7/2009 |
Q: a) How do octal access control codes work? b) How do you set access controls with command line ...
A: I am assuming by octal access control codes that you mean the octal codes set for file access ...
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| display 30 days files | 10/5/2009 |
Q: I am trying to write a script to delete every files in a directory except those that are less 30 ...
A: To delete files (in directory /usr/your_dir) which are modified more than 30 days ago, there is a ...
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| hi | 9/2/2009 |
Q: hi i was wondering do you know a good site where i can download pico or vi text editor for free for ...
A: You can try following sites - http://www.vim.org/download.php ...
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| how to set up daemon with cron for python script | 8/20/2009 |
Q: S. Jochi I want to set up a deamon with the cron command for a python script to execute every 10 ...
A: If you are not able to run crontab -e, this means either of the following - 1) ...
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| query | 8/12/2009 |
Q: guide me about the use of crontab command
A: Here is the info about crontab - 1) Crontab commands crontab -e (Create new or edit existing file) ...
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| online linux man webpage | 3/20/2007 |
Q: i am not on linux now. i am on XP now. but i need to MAN some commands. is there any webapge having ...
A: Following site will be useful http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/ You can go to the 'Names' section ...
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| checking process ID | 3/4/2007 |
Q: from where do i get information about the process ID of a process.what command to use
A: If you know what process you want to check for use the following ps -ef|grep <process> where ...
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| cpu utilization n memory utilization of a process | 12/27/2006 |
Q: I want to get cpu utilization n memory utilization of a process through a script. Which will run ...
A: You can write a script to get the cpu and memory utilization of a process using following statement ...
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| shell script | 12/5/2006 |
Q: I have two questions:- 1) Is there any differences in using $variable_name and ${variable_name} to ...
A: 1) both are same to get the variable value. But braces are used when something is to be appended to ...
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| ulimit -n problem | 11/30/2006 |
Q: I am using “ulimit –n” to find number of file descriptor user can open. If I m running ...
A: I am not sure of the problem. But you can check the shells in which the shell script is used and ...
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| unix | 11/29/2006 |
Q: 1.What is hard link & soft link? 2.What is the utility of ln command? 3.Why we use hard link & ...
A: Following sections give you the required details Hard Link A hard link is essentially a label or ...
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| AIX/UNIX script logging | 11/17/2006 |
Q: I would like to log to a file each line run in any AIX script. I'm very new to AIX having spent ...
A: I am not sure about AIX. But below is unix related material script is used to take a copy of ...
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| unix | 11/6/2006 |
Q: 1.What is the role of caret(^) symbol? 2.Explain about sed command?
A: 1) The caret symbol can actually have two different meanings in regular expressions. Most of the ...
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| unix | 10/19/2006 |
Q: 1.What is utility of at command,batch command,cron command,kill command?
A: Following are the details 1) at - Schedules a command to be ran at a particular time, such as a ...
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| unix | 9/25/2006 |
Q: 1.What is the utility of echo command? 2.Why we use $ in unix? 3.What is the use of cat command? ...
A: 1. echo is generally used to display the output on screen. eg. echo "This is a test program" or echo ...
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| Linux commands | 6/6/2006 |
Q: I am using Ubuntu linux and I try to find the command in the shell: -Display the name of the current ...
A: As I am using Unix, I am not sure of possible Linux commands. But you can try these out 1) Display ...
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