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1. What is on Your Mind?
I am pleased to announce this new video in 1080 HD for UNIX lovers honoring thirty years of UNIX history spanning from 1969 to 1999 presented in 150 seconds (two and a half minutes) in 1080 HD, celebrating the 50th anniversary of UNIX.
The Great History of UNIX (1969-1999) | 30 Years of UNIX... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Neo
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
My need is :
1. To know who , when , which command used.
2. Local user should not delete this information.
I mean , with an example , i can say
i have a user user1
i need to give all the following permissions to user1, :
a. A specific directory other than his home... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: sriky86
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Friends
I am new to sed programming , i found that the below code can search for the $ToSearch and Replace it with $ToReplace ( $ToSearch and $ToReplace are my variables in my script )
sed "s/$ToSearch/$ToReplace/" $file > $output
mv $output $file
In testing the script i found that... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: rakeshkumar
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4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi all,
My need is :
1. To know who , when , which command used.
2. Local user should not delete this information.
I mean , with an example , i can say
i have a user user1
i need to give all the following permissions to user1, :
a. A specific directory other than his home... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: linuxadmin
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello every body,
Kindly inform me How Do i find out the time I executed a command previously on UNIX Solaris??
To be more specific and more clear about what i want to know is that I want a command the enables me to know the history and which command i run at this history/time.
FYI I used... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: ahmedamer12
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi
I tried to empty an existing file (bring the size of the file down to 0). When I used “> myFile” or “cat </dev/null >myFile”, when I do a “ls –la”, the file size shows as 0.
I then wrote 540 lines to the file, and then opened it using vi, I see something like this:
"myFile" 540 lines,... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: qmqmqm
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to write a script that will empty all contents in a set of files in a directory - without deleting the files themselves.
I know the command (at BASH prompt) is: > (filename)
I'm iterating over all files in the directory and calling the > command thus :
FILES=*.log
for f in... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: SixSigma1978
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8. AIX
In our operating procedures, if a workstation has a space problem in the /var filesystem, one of the most frequent case we were told is the size of the /var/adm/wtmp file.
Someone once told me it is dangerous to do this. Is it ?
I cannot say for certain that whomever wrote that procedure is... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Browser_ice
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9. Linux
Hi all i hope someone can help me,
in gnome if you right click on trash, you get another menu appear 'Empty Trash'
what i want to do is be able to edit this command so that it secure deletes the trash, where is that command? so i can edit it. thanks in advance for any help,
Dave
(shred -z -u ) (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: dave123
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a log file which is constantly being written to by some process. I need to clear that log file on a daily basis.
The problem is that when I issue this command:
echo "" > logfile.log
the file gets filled with nulls thus increasing the size of the file.
Is there a way to... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: kasie4life
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