1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How do you get an awk output into columns i.e. awk (print $1,$2,$3) doesn't come out into nice columns but lots of lines of txt want something more like. I am crap at unix so give me a hand thx Rich (3 Replies)

2. AIX

Hi All, As i asked you in my previous post, I want to read username and lastupdate only from /etc/security/passwd and write the same data to another file: The data in /etc/security/passwd will be in this form for example: smith: password = MGURSj.F056Dj lastupdate = 623078865 flags =... (0 Replies)

3. Programming

hi everyone i have a problem in design as follows: there is a structured file ,for example , field 1, field 2 ....... -------------- -------------- i read it into my memory ,there are some change in the memory maybe add some record or change one field in an existing record. i am going... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

if i give dir=/tmp/${0##*/} what would b the value stored in dir ..i'm more concerned about the 0##*/ part.. (1 Reply)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to extract two fields from the output of ifconfig command on one of my sun server . The output looks like : root@e08k18:/tmp/test# ifconfig -a lo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 ce0:... (9 Replies)

6. Solaris

Hi all I have created an alias for a running a script called script.sh as alias utils="sh ~/script.sh". Moreover i m using bash shell, even i have given the entry for alias in .profile in my home directory.I have given alias entry in crontab file as 30 12 * * * utils ... (1 Reply)

7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Folks, I am hoping someone out there can help me. I have been writing code for in-excess of 10 years. Throughout all this time I have used Xemacs. I have picked up bits of customizations here and there over the years, but would not profess to be anything of an expert in Lisp (or have a heavily... (3 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

If one: $ find -name 'some expression' -type f > newfile and then subsequently wants to create an alias file from each pathname the find command retrieved and the > placed within 'newfile', how would one do this? Ideally, the newly created alias files would all be in one directory. I am... (3 Replies)