1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I think my script is working but i am trying to understand while I am tracing to see if it's realli working.. can somebody please comment.. also. is there different way to write this in shell? sh -x findbiggestnum 1 2 3 + big=0 + big=1 + big=2 + big=3 + echo 3 3 big=0 ... (3 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Let's say I am trying to find out how many times someone has logged into the machine. Use last to display all the different logins, several names pop up, some multiple times. All I have been able to figure out is the total number of logins, but I can't determine how to compare if $1(user name) is... (3 Replies)

3. Solaris

Hi all , I want know the port no on which a particular application is running. How to find that? Thanks in anticipation (11 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi there does anybody know how i can get the line number from an entry or entries in a file ?? for example if i had a file test1 test2 test3 test1 and i needed to get the line numbers for all instances of test1 in that file with the answer being (1,4) Would anybody be able... (7 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, is there a command that takes the PID of a process and that only diplays it's ni number? I`m pretty sure it would require pipes but I tried a few things that ended up miserably... Since the ps command doesn't show the ni unless I do ps -o ni but then I can't find a way to search the right... (2 Replies)

6. Solaris

Hi All, I wnat to know how to find out the Server serial number in command prompt? I am using sneep command but it throughing unknown. Thanks and Regards, (8 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to find out the number of dtsessions. using the command wc -l $FILE_NAME it works fine But when I try to assign this value to some variable using the command set NUM_DT_SESSION=$(wc -l $FILE_NAME) it shows error Variable syntax find below the complete command... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a list of strings stored in $Lst Example set Lst = "John Fred Kate Paul" I want to return 4 in this case. (1 Reply)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, Here is my question. I have a file which contains the html values. I have to find the decimal number from it. It is tagged around >68.74<. Please help me on it.. alt='' ><\/td>\n\t\t<td align=\"right\" class='data_table_text data_table_conv_averages_text' \ style='padding-right:... (1 Reply)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have a list of data in the listing file and I run row by row to process the record, but how to identify what is the current process line number ? Thanks. (2 Replies)