We use a UNIX-based system (Lawson) at work and I was given this command to request a data extract from the db admin. The only thing I really understand is the last line as it appears to be joining the files created from the first three lines into one. Is there anyone who can help me breakdown the rest of the code. I assume "find" means exactly what it states and I think "grep" is extracting whatever is found. But what about the rest of the syntax in red, green and blue. And what does "/tmp" mean?
Trying to install something. Can someone explain what this means?
chmod -R a+r .
chmod -R a+w logo.gif tempdir/ templates_c/
I recognize that file permissions are being changed (chmod), but beyond that, it's Greek to me. (6 Replies)
Hi All,
I search the forum for my query, Glad that got solution to it. But i really want to understand how does this command work.
sed -e ':a' -e 's/\("*\),\(*"\)/\1~\2/;ta'
Basically it is replacing all the comma(,) characters in between quotes with a tilde.
Specially what does ':a' ,... (2 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I like to know if i have a process which triggers 10 different child processes.
How to identify out of the 11 processes running which is the parent process and what are the child process?
And if i kill the parent process will the child process be killed.. if not is there a way to... (2 Replies)
hi
i was moving a file from one directory to another with the following cmmand
mv /home/hsghh/dfd/parent/file.txt .
while doing so i i accidently
mv /home/hsghh/dfd/dfd .
although i gave ctrl c and terminate the move command some of the file are missing in the parent directory and... (1 Reply)
Could you please explain me whats happening in the below code, appreciate your help, Thank you.
/product/apps/informatica/v7/pc/ExtProc/NewDAC/dacRecBuilder.sh
/product/apps/informatica/v7/pc/TgtFiles/NEW_DAC/DAC_Pos_TradeInv_Records.out ... (5 Replies)
Hi
I have a questions related 2 commands : 'du' and 'ls'.
Why is the difference between output of 'du' and 'ls' cmd's ?
Command 'du' :
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jakubn@server1 /home/jakubn $ du -s *
4 engine.ksh
1331 scripts
'du -s *' ---> shows block count size on disk (512 Bytes... (5 Replies)
I want to understand what does this command do:confused::confused: find . \( -type f -o -type 1 \) Plz someone explain me ! Thanks much in advance!! (2 Replies)
After running nm command on any object file from out put can we get to know that wheather a symbol is a call to a function or definition of function ?
I am searching a class and function definitions inside many .so files.
I have 3 files which contain the symbol but I don't know wheather they... (2 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I need a small help in understanding the below sed command.
$ cat t4.txt
1 root 1 58 0 888K 368K sleep 4:06 0.00% init
1 root 1 58 0 888K 368K sleep 4:06 0.00% init last
$ sed 's/*$//' t4.txt
1 root 1 58 0 888K ... (3 Replies)
Hello,
we have a script that has the two following lines:
ssh -qno StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o ConnectTimeout=1 user@IP 'ls -l /home/opsmgrsvc >/dev/null 2>&1' > /dev/null 2>&1
status="$(echo $?)"
I can't understand what these two lines are doing?
When I execute the first line nothing... (6 Replies)