1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

the current pwd is: c:\cygwin\home\hui which command can go to c:\documents and setting\hui\my documents\hui\reply.txt (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I ran into this issue and thanks to various postings in various forums, was able to figure out the solution but didn't see one posting that laid the whole issue out cleanly. So thought the following might help others ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to get a script working that will perform a simple database lookup using the join command. Here are the two files that I am trying to join: % cat lookup1.txt Number_1 Other_data_a Number_5 Other_data_b Number_8 Other_data_c Number_10 Other_data_d % cat... (2 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

for i in `seq 1 10 ` ; do printf $i '\n'; done gives me this: 1234567891064mbarch ~ $ (output followed by bash prompt) :( I've tried so many ways to create a newline at the end. Does anyone have any ideas.. Thanks in advance. Sorry (7 Replies)

5. Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions

I'm trying to write batch scripts of the kind that start a Cygwin session in rxvt from the desktop, with the added feature that the session starts in a folder other than $HOME. I want to do this for two folders I use often. According to the manpage, rxvt has a "-cd" command. Therefore, at first... (4 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am having an issue with using cygwin (on Windows XP). My script errors on if -command. The script here works fine on Linux, but cygwin fails... #!/bin/sh if then echo "Test" fi The error -message: ./ShellTest.sh: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `fi' ./ShellTest.sh:... (1 Reply)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I'm pretty poor at using UNIX but I'm learning. Please help me with these simple problems! Much appreciated! 1. I've changed my shell from bash to csh but I prefer bash. How do I change back? I've tried using chsh -s but it's not working! 2. I'm trying to download TopCat. I've done... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear All, I have the following awk script. #!/bin/bash sh stdev.cmd data.file | awk '{print $2}' > out.data read d < out.data echo $d awk '{print $1,$2- $f}' new > newz The script runs "stdev.cmd" and output a file "out.data" and the value of the... (2 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have installed ruby with cygwin according to these inst: w w w .sproutcore.com/install_win/#tab=advanced-install but at the last command: gem install sproutcore I'm getting a bunch of errors: $ gem install sproutcore Fetching: rack-1.3.2.gem (100%) Fetching:... (0 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all! This is my first post and I'm very new to programming. I would like help creating a simple perl or bash script that I will be using in my work as a junior bioinformatician. Essentially, I would like to take a tab-delimted or .csv text with 3 columns and write them to a "3D" matrix: ... (16 Replies)