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UPDATE: it seem like gnome-control-center command seem to be the culprit. I invoke the command in terminal it freezes the whole system and have to hard reset , has anyone got any ideas on why this...

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Ive been having a problem with the kernal(s) for some strange reason it every time I try and access the date and time/calendar or system settings it locks up the whole laptop and nothing...

sorry for the late reply guys been busy cheers for the anwsers:D

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Im using sleep in a while loop goes around 10 times. i feed it a variable with the time i what it to sleep for eg sleep $sleepVal and then print system date and time to screen but...

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Im a new to fedora and was wondering ,Can anybody direct me to a site that shows me how to install Java EE 6 SDK Update 1 (with JDK 6 Update 23) for fedora 14. NOT openjdk i need oracles...

Oh i see i will give this a try thank you :)

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im trying to use grouping in a regex statement in a function in a script
this is the criteria im trying to match :It MUST have 3 character at the beginning. After that it can have a mix...

f#$% im so stupid didnt realize that. no wonder why it wasnt evaluating the currentLineValid variable that i had set in my function because in the if statement i had used currentLineValue which is a...

sorry the name of the variable is not currentLineValue its currentLineValid and it get set just before the while loop in the main i use a function that i made called setCurrentLineValidToTrue ()...

Hi Forum Im having trouble getting my script to work
The problem seem to be that the if statements in the MAIN is not testing the variable currentLineValue at all and completely skips it i dont...

the file that i redirect to just has "CFSFO90898:this" but the rest of the line is missing?

sorry for the late post been busy. i want the delimiter to be a colon because the file that im reading in has fields in it that are separated by a colon .When i cut a field from the input file that...

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Im having problem with cut it even when i cut a field from an input file
eg

echo $x | cut -f1 -d':'


it doesnt read the whole line if there is a space in it
eg
thisLineHasA...

Oh i found the problem I was not give the full path name to the script
i was using this

q1 text.txt

when i should of been doing this

q1 ~/text.text


Scottn does this line

done <...

im using the bash shell oh i give that a try

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didnt work :(
keeps comming up with blanks

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Can anyone tell me whats wrong with my script. What i want to do read in values from a input file using a while loop then taking that input from the file into a function that i created....

that work perfectly thank you very much :D:b:

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i was wondering can you use tr to print out a file like this

i see that there is no way you could do that i feel
i see that there is no way you could do that i feel
i see that there...

can you read variables into function in unix
like java or c++ eg


sum($1)
{
if [ $1 -eq yes ]
echo "$1 is equal to yes"
else
echo "$1 not equal to yes"

}

and if so...

can u read variables into function in unix
like java or c++ eg


sum($1)
{
if [ $1 -eq yes ]
echo "$1 is equal to yes"
else
echo "$1 not equal to yes"

}


and if so...

im having trouble understanding what gp command does in unix
im coping from a hp unix manual. i did a man in cygwin and
nothing come up so im a little curious as to what is does
and if it is...

ohhhhh yeahhhhhaaaa
figure it out need to use a variable
eg dir2=~/directory u what it to go 2.
then when the script prompts you u
feed it $dir2 make sure the $ is before
the variable name or...

cheers i give it a try :b:

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OMG i cant belive that was it a space
is all i need thank again methyl
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hi guys im new to unix and what to get this script working
the scripts purpose its purpose is to move files
i copy it from a HP UX pdf just for practice but
when i execute it comes up wit this...