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Actually, I wouldn't use Windows + Cygwin unless I could avoid it, which is not the case at work. It's somewhat notably slow.
I find Linux + Windows on Virtualbox more productive, and that's what I...

I don't strictly need it, but I use it to get all my favorite software, such as bash, vim, diffing tools, git, ruby, perl, etc.
Cygwin lets you bring some of the Unix culture, tools and productivity...

Yes, very helpful.
Sometimes you don't have a choice of OS, and in those times, it's good to have Cygwin.
Personally, I couldn't survive my .NET job in an all Windows environment, if it wasn't for...

For extra completeness:
The reason why $(ls *) fails for files with spaces is that the default word separators for the shell includes spaces. So when the result of the substitution gets expanded by...

Currently I use

sudo -su weblogic
propmt.."pw"

how should I use it now? I tried using -S "pw" multiple places and it did not work.[/quote]

Sorry about the delay.

echo "password" |...

According to man sudo:


Remember to restrict read access to the script to hide the password.

Don't mention it; I love yapping about bash.
Its man page is long and daunting, but flick through it every once in a while; you're bound to learn great tidbits every time.
The parts about history...

() executes the statements in a new subshell, with separate state. {} executes stuff in the current shell.

Example:

(aVariable="hello"); echo $aVariable
this doesn't print "hello" because the...

Specifically about reporting and exiting, this is a slightly more condensed idiom:


test $condition || { print "Crap blew up; exiting"; exit 2; }


You could also directly test for the result...

Also, daemons "fork off and die" on purpose to that effect, so as to detach themselves from their parents.
So most likely, what you see is normal operation for some daemon.

How about separate threads for each file? No idea about threading support in Perl though.

IFS='\n|'

cat inputFile |
while read field1 field2
do
grep "$field1" *"$field2"*
done

This variation works with spaces:


IFS=$'\n'
tr \; \\n |
while read value1 value2 value3 ..............
do
doSomethingWith $value1
doSomethingWith $value2
done