okay, im having some trouble. Go ahead, call me a retard, but i keep getting stuck. Suppose i want to open a Picture of Jesus(for the sake of simplicity) using unix. I type:
open Desktop/Pictures/Jesus.jpg
It opens, and its all well and good. But, suppose i want to open a picture called Joe... (4 Replies)
hello,
i am very new to this, so i have basic questions about writing a shell.
if i am working with a basic file, "main.c" and a shell file, "shell", what will the shell file look like?
i want to change the command prompt from % to $, and i want to be able to have standard input from the... (0 Replies)
What command would I use to list the first lines of all
text files within my Unix directory or within any directory
inside there? I was using "find" , "head" and "-exec" commands like this:
find ~/Unix -name "*.txt" -exec head {} \;
But its not perfectly working, please help me.... (2 Replies)
Hey guys,
This is quite simply what I'm trying to make:
A program that runs in a UNIX terminal that you can output text messages to from another machine. These text messages would be prepended with a customized prompt. I'd also like to have the window spew out random dumps of flavor text not... (1 Reply)
Lets say I wanted to create a script that would show what people are doing on my machine using the w command and refresh in about 6 seconds. What would be the easiest way to do this? I pretty much want the script to loop until I stop it.
I'm using the BASH shell by the way.
Help is appreciated.... (1 Reply)
Howdy People :),
I'm a newbie & its my first question here. I've started learning Unix Bourne Shell scripting recently and struggling already :p Can someone PLEASE help me with the following problem. Somehow my script is not working.
Display an initial prompt of the form:
Welcome to... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am very new to this forum, can any one tell me which is the very basic certification on unix shell scripting?
please give me an advice on this. (1 Reply)
hey guys
I would really appreciate some help, i need to do a project for a job that requires minimal UNIX scripting and im REALLY stuck
basically Im stuck at what i believe is something really simple but i just dont have a clue how to do it efficiently and properly and i REALLY appreciate some... (16 Replies)
I am looking for a simple BASIC Interpreter written in a shell scripting language.
For me something like this would be a great learning tool...
After much goggle eyed Googling I came upon this:-
https://gist.github.com/cander/2785819
It is small and I haven't tried it yet as I am at work... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
I am a newbie to shell scripting. I am trying to something like this.
#!bin/bash
cd /u01/app/oracle/
# then start the process
./opmnctl startall
Can someone help me with this requirement.
Help is very much appreciated.
Thanks
Venkat
Please use code tags next time for... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: venkat8439
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
print
print(1) User Commands print(1)NAME
print - shell built-in function to output characters to the screen or window
SYNOPSIS
ksh
print [ -Rnprsu [n]] [arg...]
DESCRIPTION
ksh
The shell output mechanism. With no flags or with flag - or -, the arguments are printed on standard output as described by echo(1).
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-n suppresses new-line from being added to the output.
-R
-r (raw mode) ignore the escape conventions of echo. The -R option will print all subsequent arguments and options other than
-n.
-p causes the arguments to be written onto the pipe of the process spawned with |& instead of standard output.
-s causes the arguments to be written onto the history file instead of standard output.
-u [ n ] flag can be used to specify a one digit file descriptor unit number n on which the output will be placed. The default is 1.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful operation.
>0 Output file is not open for writing.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO echo(1), ksh(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 print(1)