03-08-2002
Unix help needed!
I have a few questions about Unix. Can you please help!
1.How do I create an alias that greps the password file for my username and returns my password file entry? Once I get the alias to work I want to be able to let a friend use it .So that he can use the alias to locate his password entry without having to make any changes to the alias.
2. When you normally execute the man command the output is display one page at a time. What man command option would you use if you did not want the output of the man command to be displayed by pages?
3. What effect do the redirection characters have on this string command? cat > hh < file
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hello friends,
I am doing my first year Engineering. I am intrested in learning UNIX. Please let me know how to start and what classes I have to take privatly. I am in US. (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: bluespark_c99
5 Replies
2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
friends i wanted to now whehter there exists a book as a solution to the questions posted in exercies of the Design of Unix Operating system by Maurice J Bach !..its really urgent !! (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: darshaan
1 Replies
3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi All,
I need to find out the completed transactions count which happened during a particular time duration from a log file. I'm a newbie with scripts and i'm unable to figure out how to get this task done with scripts. I have a transaction log file which has various lines indicating the... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: haran_3k
1 Replies
4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Can i get some help from any of you guyz on writing Unix script.
my requirement is like reading a csv file, finding a specific pattern in the lines and repalce the string with new string and write it to another file.
My file is file ABC123.dat
Col1,Col2,Col3
102628,AB10 0,21... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: prashant_jsw
2 Replies
5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have multiple servers and each server hosts multiple databases. Now i have requirement as below
1) Create a file in any server which will hold all the database name.
2) Write a shell script that will read the file and connect to each and every database. and log out of it one by... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: amritansur
2 Replies
6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Solutions may be in ksh or bash
1. i have some files like.
CAT_CO00102_20100816190955.Z CAT_CO00102_20100816190955Q.Z CAT_CO00202_20100825135947A.Z
to find out files ends with A.Z or Q.Z i use following in ksh.
CAT="CAT*.Z"
ls $CAT
CAT_CO00102_20100816190955Q.Z ... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: malikshahid85
5 Replies
7. Homework & Coursework Questions
#!/bin/sh
#Buddy Gibbons
#COP3353 - Assignment 4
#4/21/12
file=$1
directories=0
files=0
rfiles=0
xfiles=0
wfiles=0
if
then
echo "Usage: assignment4.sh <directory_name>"
exit
fi (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: tennistennis1
1 Replies
8. Homework & Coursework Questions
1 Petras Pavardenis 1980 5
08 Linas Bajoriunas 1970 10
3 Saulius Matikaitis 1982 2
5 Mindaugas Stulgis 1990 7
6 Rimas Nasickis 1964 10
7 ... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: vaidastf
1 Replies
9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have 2 variables which is having like the below data
a=x.1 y.2 z.3 m.4
b=No (zero) rows read (0)~ No (zero) rows read (0)~ Complete: 273894 row(s)~ Complete: 729002 row(s)~
I need a file which should contain
x.1,No (zero) rows read (0)~
y.2,No (zero) rows read (0)~ ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Ravindra Swan
2 Replies
10. Homework & Coursework Questions
The 'env' command prints out all of the environment variables and their values.
Come up with a command that prints a list of environment variables whose names
end with either 'NAME', 'DIR' or 'PATH'.
What I've tried.
$ env | grep ''
Although it highlights the part of the variables... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: edujs7
8 Replies
ali(1mh) ali(1mh)
Name
ali - list mail aliases
Syntax
ali [ -alias aliasfile ] [ -help ] [ -[no]list ] [ -[no]normalize ] [ -user useraddr ] [ -nouser ] [ aliases ... ]
Description
The command searches the specified mail alias files for each of the given aliases. It creates a list of addresses for those aliases, and
displays that list on the screen.
Options
-alias aliasfile
Specifies the alias file to be consulted by You can specify more than one alias file, but each aliasfile must be preceded by
-alias. In addition to any alias files that you specify, consults the system alias file
You can set up an entry in your so that automatically consults an alias file. To do this, add the Aliasfile entry to your pro-
file. See for more information.
-help Prints a list of the valid options to this command.
-list
-nolist Prints the addresses on separate lines. If you do not specify the -list option, the addresses are separated by commas and
printed on as few lines as possible.
-normalize
-nonormalize
Instructs to try to track down the official hostname of the address. This can be suppressed by using -nonormalize. The default
is -nonormalize.
-user useraddr
-nouser Displays all the aliases that contain a specific name. Instead of listing the addresses that each given alias expands to, lists
the aliases that expand to include each given address. You must specify the complete user name that you have used in your alias
file.
The defaults for this command are:
-alias /usr/lib/mh/MailAliases
-nolist
-nonormalize
-nouser
Examples
The following example shows how the -user option can be used to list all the aliases containing the address Parker@Venus:
% ali -user Parker@Venus
Parker@Venus: Group, Reviewers, Badminton
Profile Components
Path: Location of your Mail directory.
Aliasfile: Location of your personal alias file.
Files
The user profile.
The system alias file.
The system password file.
The system group file.
See Also
mh-alias(5mh)
ali(1mh)