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perhaps you can play around who or w commands.

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An ordinary user (not root) had mistakenly issued "crontab -r" which removed the crontab file corresponds to his user_id. (well, on our keyboard R is next E, where "crontab -e" is...

there is more suitable forum which can help you much better. i mean metalink. pls go to the unix & rdbms installation forum.

metalink.oracle.com (http://metalink.oracle.com)

:)

i would apply different logic than yours:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
for i in `ls -a`
do
FILESIZE=`ls -l $i|awk '{print $5}'`
if [ $FILESIZE -eq 0 ]
then
/usr/bin/rm $i
fi
done


this...

try this:

SQL> @/path/of/scripts/scriptname

this syntax works in oracle.

btw, this is more SQL-related than UNIX.

hi mark,

to read users input/selection use the read variable_name command. read will cause the shell to wait until the user hit ENTER before going to the next line of command. e.g.

# script...

dear paul@saccom,

1. since you have a pentium machine, the best for you is LINUX. You may try Redhat or SuSe. They are available for free download. the download sites for LINUX is numerous.

2....

yuh yuh... the old unix systems (before X windows) were character based displayed on a monochrome monitor. everything needs keystroke. :)

despite that fact, our guru was able to develope a...

prodz & others (including myself),

put them this way. every branded unix system is likely to be dependant on the hardware supplied together with the os. for example ibm aix runs best only on ibm...

i suggest that you getany ibm compatible system, just like your windows-based system. then install linux on it. well, linux is create for unix to run on pc...:)

imho, should be written as:

ParseRowcount(){
...
}

note the inclusion of bracket and omission of "function" word.

"if $dir isn't a valid directory" we say

if [ ! -d $dir ]
then
...

fi

korn shell is compatible across the unix families. make sure you run the "typeset" command in the korn shell by issuing "ksh" command at command prompt.

another option, you can put this line at...

in korn shell, there is a built in utility call typeset for force the leading zero. e.g. this script

#!/bin/ksh
typeset -Z3 var=1
while [ $var -lt 1000 ]
do
echo ${var}
var=`expr $var + 1`...

the syntax "ls s*" looks alright, and i think it is recognised by all shells across unix families. the unexpected output may be due to the existence of subdirectory whose name begins with an "s"...

ls -l will list details including time of last modification. for most unix systems the date (month & day) column will display the year if the file is last modified more than 6 months ago. see the man...

use == operator instead of =
use single qoute (') instead of reverse qoute (`)

awk '{$4=="USA"||$4=="USSR" {print $0} details > newdetails

i believe other command does this job better. anyway, my spontaneous suggestion is:

sed -e '$ G' -e '$ s/$/new text line/' TheTextFile > NewTextFile

try the command line the other way round:

find / -user rmoore -print 2> error.txt > big.lst &

hi krishna,

thanks for your reply. it works that way.

i want to run a ksh script 'myscript' at the background and direct the system to return any error msg to /tmp/myscript.err and the output of 'myscript' to /tmp/myscript.out
how do i do that at the...