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Hi,

I did not understand why the following did not work out as I expected:

find . -name "pqp.txt" | grep -v "Permission"


I thought I would be able to catch whichever paths containing my...

:o
the slash was the problem, now the variables are getting into the package.
thanks!

Hi there.
How do I make the DB connection see the parameter variables passed to the unix script ? The code snippet below isn't working properly.

sqlplus << EOF
user1@db1/pass1

BEGIN
...

yeah...
I hoped it would be possible in a single command, but, anyway, thanks !

This is likely to be a dumb one.

How can I use sed to substitute string occurances having it read from an input file and write to this very same file ?

I have a file with lots of occurances of...

it seems issuing only
find <file system from where I want the copy to begin> -name <pattern> -exec cp {} <destination_dir> \; worked fine for this purpose.

Thank you all, anyway!

Hi guys.

I'm willing to copy a specific file system hierarchy, but I would not like to maintain the directory tree organization.


For example:

Let's say /a/b/c is the fs I'm wanting to copy...

I think the $? returns 0 if the last issued command was successful and otherwise if not. But does anyone knows the value list that may be returned ? (or it is only zero/one ? )

Thanks in advance,...

Sorry for my loose details on the problem, Perderabo.
And thanks for you both, my problem were indeed the spaces :mad:

Hi there.

I spent too much time away from Unix, now I can't remember how to issue a simple until command in ksh :mad:

could you tell me what is wrong with the following code sample:

...

Hi guys,

Is there a way I can ftp some files without changing the last-modified dates from them ?

I haven't seen any ftp option to do so.
Or, alternatively, how do I change the last-modified...

Yep, I was using the & character...

I was trying something on the way of
nohup -p `ps -u xz1f78 | grep "ksh" | cut -d' ' -f2` $0 ...

but using nohup ksh ... worked.


Thanks a lot. ;)

Hi all,
I wish to have a script running even if my session is disconnected.
I've tried calling another session within it and using sudo to a different user, but it didn't work - as it was expected...

Is it possible to pass a variable name, as a parameter to a function, so it can be created within this function ?

Something like this:

func_uppercase abcdefgh var_name

where the 1st...

Isn't any "NOT" operator that can be used in the case construction like :

case $VAR (NOT) in
option1 | option2 | option 3...) COMMAND ;;
esac


Or something similiar...

Does the awk solution works with different delimiters ?

I was talking about something like this:

abcd/efgh/ijklm/nopq

And I'd like to "cut" only the nopq

Hello guys.

Is there any way I can cut the last field using "cut" ???


(without putting it into a while...)

Thanks.
435 Gavea.

Hi there.

reading the if entry from man, i get this:

-f file True if file exists and is a regular file.

What is exactly a regular file ?





Thanks,

--- 435 Gavea ---

Thanks, I'll take a look at what you've suggested !

;)

I'm trying to customize my environment at work in a Unix system.
So I'm starting with the ls command...

I'd like to make it run as the Linux ls...
Even in color, if possible...

My first...

Ok, but isn't any way to return directly the 3 characters ? I mean, you can't select directly these 3 characters using the right pattern ?

Or there isn't other way unless you select the entire...

Hehe, obviosly \. was intended to be a real dot character...
I was kinda desperate , so I tried this out... :p

But, let me see If I got it:

You're substituting any characteres till the...

Hi.

Can I extract the last 3 characters from a given string using sed ?

Why the following doesn't work (it prints the full string) :

echo "abcd" | sed '/\.\.\.$/p' doesn't work ?

output:...

I think that's it.

Above you can see the script, in its final version ...
I've made the basic tests and it passed...

Maybe this lock script - that uses only shell scripting - no files nor...