1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have been using the following code for sending out an email from a AIX UNIX platform. cat filename | telnet mailhost 25 >/dev/null Time to time I get a message loopback: A specified file does not support the ioctl system call. Can anyone tell me what this means? I need this function... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, i have just tried something in perl #!/path/to/perl print "login: "; $login = <STDIN>; print "\npassword: "; $password = <STDIN>; print "Username=$login\n"; print "Password=$password\n"; And it doesnt work, anyone know how i can get more than one line? Cheers, Elfyn (2 Replies)

3. HP-UX

Hi, I am connecting via SFTP to a remote Server. My problem is on trying to LOGin, I am asked for a password. I need to make this process automatic such that I can login without being prompted for a password. I can achieve this if the remote server has a simple FTP server and not SFTP. How... (6 Replies)

4. Linux

I want to run through wine the utorrent and I don't want the messages that are usually displayed in the console, so I use the following command wine utorrent.exe > /dev/null & but it doesn't seem to work. Especially the redirection of the messages to the /dev/null doesn't work at all. Do... (1 Reply)

5. Linux

Hi, I am trying to do a silent installation of a JDk on a linux machine. Can anyone give me a command that would do it for me. Thanx Sundeep (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I run a background process using '&'. (see example below) How can I suppress the '&' messages that are written to my console?? (lines 2 and 5) Current Output... 1 > ak@LATU ~> ls & 2 > 4000 3 > ak@LATU ~> 4 > apps/ dl/ gems/ todo/ tst/ util/ 5 > + Done ... (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need to process a file line-by-line using some value from a shell variable Something like:perl -p -e 's/$shell_srch/$shell_replace/g' input.txt I can't make the '-s' work in the '-p' or '-n' input loop (or couldn't find a syntaxis.) I have searched and found... (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Experts, I use perl telnet and ssh for normal tasks and health checks. everything works fine but i would like to run scripts silently and print only data as i wish to. by silent i mean.no banners /no prompts/ nothing. I will format data before i print it on screen. just formatted... (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello Experts, I am learning perl. I know ksh/bash/csh... In ksh I use to do this way... to read user input in silent mode so that nothing returns on the screen. stty -echo read -r pswd stty echo Please let me know the way in perl how to do it. Here are my OS and Perl Details... ... (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

ls | grep -E '^+$' | xargs --verbose -I{} rm -vfr "{}"; When i execute the command it works fine by removing the directories and its writing the output as below about which files are deleting.What i want know is,is there any XARGS command option that it should done silently in background with... (2 Replies)