1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

The majority of the users on our system are "captured" users where they log into script that is launched via their .profile. The password expiration message flashes by very quickly before they get the "menu" portion of the script to continue. Other than a sleep at scripts startup to slow... (2 Replies)

2. Solaris

My Ultra 5 (Solaris 10) is now unbootable, with the OBP failing with error "trap 3e" When it tries to boot from disk. Disk is a Maxtor 80GB IDE, and was working previously. I've booted to cdrom and run "Format" from Single user, but when I try to read the disk, it just core dumps. I have... (2 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Friends, Can any of you explain me about the below line of code? mn_code=`env|grep "..mn"|awk -F"=" '{print $2}'` Im not able to understand, what exactly it is doing :confused: Any help would be useful for me. Lokesha (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I am using "trap" command in my script to prevent the user from running Ctrl-C during the its execution. My script creates number of children processes which in turn create some children processes as well during the execution. When user / tester tries to run Ctrl-C, the parent process is... (1 Reply)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have line in input file as below: 3G_CENTRAL;INDONESIA_(M)_TELKOMSEL;SPECIAL_WORLD_GRP_7_FA_2_TELKOMSEL My expected output for line in the file must be : "1-Radon1-cMOC_deg"|"LDIndex"|"3G_CENTRAL|INDONESIA_(M)_TELKOMSEL"|LAST|"SPECIAL_WORLD_GRP_7_FA_2_TELKOMSEL" Can someone... (7 Replies)

6. Solaris

Well, my first post... thanks in advance! Can applications be notified of the X Window close (with "X" button) so the signal handler can run a cleanup process method? About the app: built with GNU C/C++ on Solaris 10, with WxWidgets. It is launched by a shell script as a background task. The... (2 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How to use "mailx" command to do e-mail reading the input file containing email address, where column 1 has name and column 2 containing “To” e-mail address and column 3 contains “cc” e-mail address to include with same email. Sample input file, email.txt Below is an sample code where... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have following traps(s) in my code Line 913 triggers one of the traps with parenthesizes around (case-insensitive). Checked by removing them. Since it is a text I do not mind removing the offending () . But why it triggers both traps ? PS Where does the "bad" in trap... (0 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello. System : opensuse leap 42.3 I have a bash script that build a text file. I would like the last command doing : print_cmd -o page-left=43 -o page-right=22 -o page-top=28 -o page-bottom=43 -o font=LatinModernMono12:regular:9 some_file.txt where : print_cmd ::= some printing... (1 Reply)