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Hi, I'm using UWIN (from at&t - a cygwin like environment) in my personal computer to show Unix like environment to someone new to Unix. Though UWin has Ksh command box, wanted to show Putty to that person. My question is. How to connect to Cygwin (or UWin) installed in personal computer...

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Vi questions

Hello, I would like to know how we can highlight/select a section of a file in vi and delete that section if we don't want to use the dd command to delete one line at at time. There is one where we don't want to delete the whole line , but up to a certain word.

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How to save a shell script in Uwin

Hi All, Actually im new to Unix and trying to learn shell scripting in uwin(freeware) on windows xp machine. I tried writing the shell script with vi mode, but my problem is I am unable to save this script file even after specifying :wq option ie I am unable to save the file and quit from vi mode...

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Print questions from a questions folder in a sequential order

1.) I am to write scripts that will be phasetest folder in the home directory. 2.) The folder should have a set-up,phase and display files I have written a small script which i used to check for the existing users and their password. What I need help with: I have a set of questions in a...

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UWIN question

Hi I've installed uwin4.2 on 2 boxes a Win Xp and Window 2003 server. I have a simple script that I invoke form the command prompt like so ksh {c:\script} on the XP box it works. On the 2003 it just hangs ! Any ideas. here is the script #!/usr/bin/ksh echo hello cat /etc/mailx.rc...

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get some help with some questions

How would you change the IP address using the command line? How would you make the new IP address persistent after a reboot? How do you find the default route of your host? Your /var file system is full. How do you find the files and directories that consume most of the...

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Few questions

RANDOM is from 1 - 32767 how can i set it to be from 1 - 6 how can i give every user 100 points at start lets say a game. within the script if i create users will it by default prevent creating users with same name twice. I am a beginner in this field and want to do a little game and...

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A few questions...

I'm new to this UNIX world ! :D I login to a remote server (UNIX ) from an XP machine.. Let's say I need to download a window manager, I've decided upon wmaker .. But how do I go about it? How do I connect to the internet from my remote Unix X-Term terminal? And how do i install it? ...

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uising ed in wipro uwin unix emulator

i have no clue what I am doing with the ed editor since i have never really used it.. the only thing is the sed edittor on the unix emulator I downloaded for windows is rather simple and the man pages are very vague... it doesn't function according to most linux operating systems that envoke sed.....

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