02-25-2009
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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I need to take a string (stringA) check it for spaces and replace any spaces found with an equal (=) sign.
This is not working. There are spaces between each component:
$StringA | tr "" ""
The error returned is:
test: Specify a parameter with this command
Can you help? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: by_tg
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
When ssh'ing into certain Unix boxes I'm seeing two errors that appear immediately after entering the password I've never seen. After the error message is displayed the connection closes immediately. The first is “/bin/ksh: Not owner” after which the connection is closed. And, “Read from remote... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: twk
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
What does "-f" option do? This is at the start of a shell scripts to point to full path to the interpreter such as /bin/ksh
What does the -f option do?
#!/bin/ksh -f (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Arsenalman
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4. Solaris
Hi,
could someone pls enlighten me on the difference between the "root" package and "usr" package?
Like in this example:
pkginfo -l SUNWGtku | grep -i desc
DESC: GTK - The GIMP Toolkit (Usr)
and
pkginfo -l SUNWGtkr | grep -i desc
DESC: GTK - The GIMP Toolkit (Root)... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: masloff
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5. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers
All,
In my script i am having the first line as
"#! /bin/ksh"
I see there is a space between #! and /bin ..
My script is working fine and it is not causing any problem.But some time this script is very slow in processing and even some time the script hangs we need to kill and... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: arunkumar_mca
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6. Solaris
On a SunOS Solaris 5.5.1 workstation, the /usr/dt/bin/sdtdbcache –init command lasts more than 20 minutes. This command is executed by the /usr/dt/bin/Xsession script during an user connection.
Please refrain from using subjects like "HELP ME!..." to get more/faster attention and also please do... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: ricadom
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
what if the difference between
#!/bin/sh
and
#!/bin/bash
I wrote a script with the second heading now when i change my heading to the first one ...the script is not executing well....im not getting the required output....any solution to this problem...or do i have to start the... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: xerox
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8. Solaris
The system don't boot.
on the screen appears following:
press enter to maintenance (or type CTRL-D to continue)...I checked with format command.
... the slices "0-root","1-swap","2-backup" exist.
...the slises "3-var","6-usr" -unassigned. :( (16 Replies)
Discussion started by: wolfgang
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi.
In thread https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-and-scripting/265878-date-format-problem.html , Aia and I were discussing the usefulness of using #!/usr/bin/env bash (or ksh, or perl, or ...) as the shebang line. The exchange was good, but it was getting beyond the scope or the thread, so I... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: drl
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm on Ubuntu 14.04 and I manually updated my coreutils so that "tee" is now on version 8.27
I was running a script using bash where there is some write to pipe error at some point causing the tee command to exit abruptly while the script continues to run. The newer version of tee seems to prevent... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: stompadon
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LEARN ABOUT XFREE86
suspend
suspend(1) User Commands suspend(1)
NAME
suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell
SYNOPSIS
sh
suspend
csh
suspend
ksh
suspend
DESCRIPTION
sh
Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).
csh
Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su.
ksh
Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 suspend(1)