can someone explain the meaning of the following shell commands:
1. who / wc -l
2. who / sort > user_names
3. cat students > new_students
4. current_day='date / cut -cl-3'
i would also appreciated if you could tell me some things about the umask
1. what is a good umask value and why?
2.... (2 Replies)
Hi folks,
I have written down a UNIX script which actually FTP the file to other server. What is happening now , this script is not working only for 1 server , as it is working for 32 different FTP server .
In this particular server , we are getting message “FTp:550 access denied”... (1 Reply)
i have a file having content
a|b|c
1|2|33
4|6|55
end
a|b|d
3|4|55
end
a|b|c
45|67|98
end
so i want to print 3rd field of header a|b|c and footer end.
e.g. o/p should be
33
55
98 (7 Replies)
Hello everyone, I'm new to using Linux and i am trying to create a script that will produce a list of all the files of the present working directory. So far I only have this
#!/bin/bash
cd /
ls -lt>>
I can't figure out what I am suppose to do next. (6 Replies)
I want to open a file which is in encrypted form and it consists Usernames and passwords.a custommized command is there to open the file.the command is exe of a shell script which takes arguments filename.
after opening with the command it will show four options which are ADD,update,search and... (2 Replies)
Hi,
1) Need help to write script in KSH to detect a duplicate file.
2) The original file needs to be moved from current path to a different path
3) The duplicate file should continue to stay in the same path.
Exact file names & duplicate file names are given below. Please help me at the... (7 Replies)
I work on various messages received from server and want to write a python script that can sort messages with unique flag values and give me the output in a text file.
I get these messages in the form of .zcap file from server and I use an internal tool to filter:
Step 1) Zcap file to get... (1 Reply)
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surfraw-update-path
SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1)NAME
surfraw-update-path - updates PATH in shell config files
SYNOPSIS
surfraw-update-path [-add] [-remove] [-check] [-sys] [-all] [-help] [-shell=SHELL]
DESCRIPTION
surfraw-update-path adds the surfraw elvi directory (/usr/lib/surfraw) to your PATH in your shell's config file.
Currently it supports bash, sh, csh, tcsh, ash, dash, ksh, pdksh, zsh, rc, and es
Don't forget to login again or source your login files for it to take effect.
OPTIONS -check
Checks to see if the surfraw config code is present. This is the default.
-add
Adds the surfraw config code.
-remove
Removes the surfraw config code
-sys
Updates the system-wide shell config instead of the user. Must be done as root.
-shell=SHELL
Selects the shell to configure. Defaults to the value of the $SHELL environment variable.
Currently supported shells are:
sh, ash, bash, dash, csh, tcsh, ksh, pdksh, zsh, rc, and es.
-all
Attempts to configure the startup files for all known shells
-help
Gives a usage message
RETURN VALUE -check returns 0 if the surfraw code is present in the file, 1 if it is not found, or 2 on error.
All other options return 0 on success, or 2 on error.
ENVIRONMENT
SHELL
Used to determine which shell to configure, if -shell is not given.
HOME
Used to find users config files.
ENV Used by posix-compliant shells to specify a startup rc file.
ZDOTDIR
Used to find user config files for zsh. If not set, defaults to HOME.
SEE ALSO surfraw(1), sh(1), ash(1), bash(1), dash(1), csh(1), tcsh(1), ksh(1), pdksh(1), zsh(1), rc(1), es(1)AUTHOR
Ian Beckwith <ianb@erislabs.net>
perl v5.12.4 2011-07-12 SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1)