1. Shell Programming and Scripting

i tried to use stat to get the attributes of a file and a soft link. but the result i got from stat and lstat are the same. say: ln -s f1 soft1 (soft is a soft link , point to f1) if i use > ls -il shows the inode and modify time of soft1 and f1 are different. but the modify... (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello everyone, I'm a unix noob. I have a powerbook running mac os x 10.4 and for one of my classes I need to install the latest version of php (5.0.5). I'm following the instructions at http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/php.html to install but I've run into a problem. The... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

About System and Perl: Sun Solaris 5.9 sparc, Perl 5.6.1 I've decided to use the perl file::find module to look for all the SETUID and SETGID files on my unix boxes. I wrote something like this: (I've shorted it a little to make it simple) #!/opt/perl/bin/perl use File::Find; find... (1 Reply)

4. AIX

Hi, I have an AIX machine. I am trying to create a directory from within the script, but the message being shown is "mkdir: 0653-358 Cannot create directory 'xxx': A file or path name is too long" I am not giving any 'long' pathname to mkdir. The commands being issued within the script are: ... (0 Replies)

5. Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions

Hi, I am trying to connect to a remote server using Plink tool. Both my local and remote machines are Windows. On remote server, I have OpenSSH server installed. I am able to run commands on remote machine but there is some problem with long UNC path, which I noticed today. For... (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I have this shell script that runs awk code by passing in parameters however now it doesn't work anymore with the parameters and I don't know why. It removes duplicates from an input file based on a part of the last field and a key column. It removes the record with the older datetime... (0 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I get this error when attempting to run a simple .ksh script. This script runs fine on other servers. What causes this error? (3 Replies)

8. Programming

Hello, I have a little problem with lstat. I use the find utility, to find a path for a file in my system. After that,I take that path and I pass it in lstat, but lstat returns -1, and this error : no such file or directory. So I m trying to "ls" the path in the shell, but it also fails. ... (1 Reply)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, I have a little problem with lstat. I use the find utility, to find a path for a file in my system. After that,I take that path and I pass it in lstat, but lstat returns -1, and this error : no such file or directory. So I m trying to "ls" the path in the shell, but it also fails. ... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, there! a long PATH... makes the OS access the disk quite often, hence there is a lot of disk I/O a long PATH... makes the OS compute a lot of ..., hence a high CPU load (Edited/added later: Yes, this is not about the lenght of the env. var., but about the number of directories listed.)... (1 Reply)