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OK thanks guys. I got it to work the way I need.

Thanks balajesuri.

I haven't seen xargs before. Is that a part of older UNIX languages or something from linux?

So just to elaborate a touch.

find /var/opt/mydir -name "*abc*" type -f |...

I am looking for a small script to crawl through several directories and change a couple of files in each directory to read write status.

Anyone have any ideas ?

They don't start with a dot so I tried absolute path and it still didn't work.
Should I be using single quotes or the other thing that looks kinda like a single quote.

The paths are correct.
archive/tabv/file1.txt
archive/tabv/file2.txt

and so on.

I have tried:


tar -xfv mytarfile.tar archive/tabv/*
tar -xfv mytarfile.tar --wildcards 'archive/tabv/*'
tar -xf mytarfile.tar -v --wildcards 'archive/tabv/*'
tar -xfv mytarfile.tar...

Thanks Jim

Its an old version of HP unix, I'll give your second iteration a try.

Is it possible in unix to write a script that could determine when a particular application is running or not ?

I am trying to set up a simple cron job but it won't work
Is there a special directory that the target program has to run from ??
I noticed that all the other jobs in the file were in...

I asked this over on the "High Level Programming Section" but there must be a secret handshake or something that I am missing.....anyway....if a person wanted to start some C programming in UNIX what...

Anyone ???

What would be the best compiler to start with ??
I am fairly familiar with visual studio and have done some windows programming but not sure how to get started on unix type systems.

Thanks
Zapper

Thanks man....
I haven't had a chance to try this yet but
the piping you are talking about....something like this ?

xlsfonts -display remotews:0.0 | more


Zapper

Yes I did do a man before posting.
The version of unix I am using doesn't mention a -fs switch
there is an -fn for font and a -fb for bold font.
but I am willing to try the -fs but where do I put...

I am using this command but when I launch it, the font that comes up on the remote machine is very small. Is there a way to enlarge the font using some switch?

xterm -display remotemachine:0.0 &

Ok thanks
So I am wondering why this works from the command line
From what you are saying, I have to specify the tape drive if I am doing this from a script but from the command line it interprets...

I am trying to write a simple script where I tar a few files and send them to tape

The code looks like this:

tar -cvf archive/tam/*20080507* archive/sam/*20080507* source/delta/*20080507*
...

OK..........thanks a lot
Actually I am using a very old version of HP unix and I think the '{}' is necessary....but I'll try it both ways.

Zapper

I have tried this but it doesn't work

find . -name "*display" -exec ux2dos '{}' > *.txt \;

Anyone can provide the correction ??

Thanks
Zapper

I am trying to do a ux2dos to several files. Anyone know the syntax for that ??

Thanks
Zapper