1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am taking an intro to unix class and I can not figure out how to do part of the question. I am writing script to be exictued by a program in the tutoral. Question: Write every line containing the word ``delete'' produced by ``man mail'' into a file called ``delete''. Hint: What does using... (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

When i type cd etc/shadow it says that file or directory doesnt exist? Is there a way to show this or am i typing something wrong? :confused: (6 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Ok what is BSD exactly? I know its a type of open source but what is it exactly? (1 Reply)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

i'm trying to make a script that prints the name of the script for any command line parameter, here is what i have, and get `]]' unexpected: what am i doing wrong? (3 Replies)

5. Programming

Hello. I'm a complete newbie to C programming. I have a C program that wasn't written by me where I need to write some wrappers around it to automate and make it easier for a client to use. The problem is that the program accepts standard input to control the program... I'm hoping to find a simple... (6 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I had a script in solaris wich i read data, for example: Number 1: _ and the cursor use to be in '_' place because in the code of the script i write: echo "Number 1:\c" but i copy the script to a linux and the cursor 'jump' to the begining of the next line like: Number 1:... (2 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, I have a quick question that is not related to homework in any way shape or form (in case anyone wanted to know). My question is thus: I have a file "temp" that has the two values say "5" and "3" (separated by a white space). Now, I want to simply write an if-else statement that reads... (10 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have a linebreak in mid text \n and would like to remove this. I only want the \n at the end of the line. Any suggetions on how I would get this to work? I had: cat $LOGFILE| sed '{ /\n\ /\n$\! s\n\g ... (1 Reply)

9. Red Hat

Cheers! In /etc/syslog.conf, if an error type is not specified, is it logged anywhere (most preferable is it logged to /var/log/messages) or not? To be more precise I am interested in error and critical level messages. At default these errors are not specified in syslog.conf, and I need to... (6 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Sorry for stupid question, but why this script gives that output? $ awk 'BEGIN { well=56789; print 1234$well }' 1234 I expected 123456789 (9 Replies)