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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
to get the checksum of a file on unix systems, you can just use the "cksum" command.
i discovered there are some watered down versions of unix systems i have to do some work on. surprisingly, these systems have perl installed on them and awk.
so if the cksum command is not available on a... (1 Reply)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Okay so I'm 13 and my dad set me a challenge of writing a program that check to see if a box is online with input parameter when starting the program so i came back with this.The top commented out bit is what he showed me how to do after i show him my code.
#!/bin/sh
#in=${@}
#tst=`echo... (3 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi I am trying to make my scripts to run from any directory and after some research (googling) I find there are 2 ways to do this
1. export PATH=$PATH:directory
2. create a /bin directory in your home directory and put your scripts there.
Could someone tell me the relative merits of either... (1 Reply)
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am trying to figure out the OS version of my Linux box. I got three commands:
# uname -a
Linux test01 2.6.18-238.el5 #1 SMP Thu Jan 13 15:51:15 EST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
# cat /proc/version
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How does X windows system launch a program?
Does X give init a command (fork) or does x give BASH a command? Can/does X interact with init directly or does everything go through BASH? :wall:
Thanks in advance! (4 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi!
I really need your help!
I need to operate the columns separate by ',' of a file with this structure
a1,a2,a3
b1,b2,b3,b4,b5
c1,c2
d1,d2,d3
e1
....
and I want the result of this subtractions
a1-a1,a2-a1,a3-a1
b1-b1,b2-b1,b3-b1,b4-b1,b5-b1 (10 Replies)
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7. Programming
what are the precautions to be taken care for avoiding zombie process ? (8 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
What are the ways to know about a command? (7 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How many ways are there to open a file in unix?
wha i know is mentioned below
suppose if xx is a filename, then
1) cat xx
2) more xx
3) view xx
4) less xx
I heard there are seven ways to open a file. If so, can anyone tell me all the ways to open a file and correct me the above... (3 Replies)
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10. Tips and Tutorials
A common thing in shell scripting. I came across this script that will be useful for people learning to write script.
#!/usr/bin/ksh
#
# SCRIPT: 12_ways_to_parse.ksh.ksh
#
#
# REV: 1.2.A
#
# PURPOSE: This script shows the different ways of reading
# a file line by line. Again... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: google
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LDP(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual LDP(7)
NAME
LDP - Intro to the Linux Documentation Project, with help, guides and documents
SYNOPSIS
The Linux Documentation Project (LDP) provides a variety of free documentation resources including guides, FAQs, HOWTOs, and man-pages to
the Linux community.
AUTHORS
The various documents in the LDP archives are maintained by individual authors, and are listed in the beginning of each HOWTO. If you have
any questions or inputs to a document we encourage you to contact the authors directly.
WEB PAGES
The LDP has its own dedicated web site as do many of the various translations projects which are linked from the main LDP web site at:
http://www.tldp.org/
MAN PAGES
A web page with status information for manual pages and translations is found at:
http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/man/
MAILING LISTS
LDP has a number of mailing lists, such as
<announce@en.tlpd.org>
Announcements from the LDP project
<discuss@en.tldp.org>
General discussion on the LDP project
<docbook@en.tldp.org>
Questions about the use of DocBook
For subscription information, see the website.
If you are interested in DocBook beyond the simple markup of your LDP document, you may want to consider joining one of the OASIS DocBook
mailing lists. Please see http://docbook.org/mailinglist/index.html for more information.
FILES
Most distributions include the HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs in the installation
/usr/doc/ (old place for documentation)
/usr/share/doc/ (new place for documentation)
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/ (HOWTO files)
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/mini/ (mini-HOWTO files)
SEE ALSO
info(1), man(1), xman(1x)
info pages as read with emacs(1) or info(1)
LDP
2001-11-15 LDP(7)