1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Ok what is BSD exactly? I know its a type of open source but what is it exactly? (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all I have a small doubt. Can we do an if compare using if (( )). In what conditions will it fail. Regards, Ranjith (6 Replies)

3. Programming

Hello. I'm a complete newbie to C programming. I have a C program that wasn't written by me where I need to write some wrappers around it to automate and make it easier for a client to use. The problem is that the program accepts standard input to control the program... I'm hoping to find a simple... (6 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

hey all, im new and my first question is: say i have a word "blahblah" how do i get and replace the last letter of the word with say k, so replace the h with a k. However you cant just replace the h it has to change the LAST LETTER of the word. Cheers In advance. :b: (0 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I jus want to know the meaning of the below command line(exclamation following that re-direction) sqlplus -s `cat /home/sample.txt` <<! Thanks!! (1 Reply)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi , Struck with one basic question. Iam expecting word count of 4 where "wc" is showing as 5 . # echo "abcd" | wc 1 1 5 # echo abcd | wc 1 1 5 (5 Replies)

7. 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)

8. Red Hat

Cheers! In /etc/syslog.conf, if an error type is not specified, is it logged anywhere (most preferable is it logged to /var/log/messages) or not? To be more precise I am interested in error and critical level messages. At default these errors are not specified in syslog.conf, and I need to... (6 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

The attachment says it all really... It is a DEMO at a glance digital readout using the "date" command to make it useful... For a Mocbook Pro 13", OSX 10.7.5, but may well work on Linux variants too. Enjoy... #!/bin/bash # # Clock.sh # A bash DEMO to create a 6 x 7 character set... (4 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

in my shell script requirement is to search and replace the file with variable so i use the following command sed -i "s/abc/$SCHEMA/g" table.sql later when the script runs sqlplus username/pwd@Table& this & is not letting the variable to replace the value inside the file .please let me know... (1 Reply)