1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Being new I had my focus in the wrong place and typed in xterm instead of <If you can't guess, good>. Can I purge xterm so that this word no longer appears using up or down arrows? (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi , I want to purge 7 days older data from a list of data sorted on date in a log file... Can anyone provide me with the shell script for the same.. Thanks, Jaz (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am trying to write a script which would go search and get the info from the logs based on yesterday timestamp and write yesterday logs in new file. The log file format is as follows: """"""""""""""""""""""""""... (3 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, Consider i have a directory /tmp/test and inside this directory i have the following files: 1.svf.tmp 2.svf.tmp 3.svf.tmp How can i remove the last four characters of every file in irder for the directory to be as: 1.svf 2.svf 3.svf I use the following command but id doesn't... (6 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, At work we have backups on a ftp. I want to view 4 last files saved (their names, dates, and weight). how can i achieve this goal using simplest way ? Thank's. (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, sorry if there already a thread about this, I did a little bit of digging but haven't found exactly what I want. I have a java application on a glassfish server who crash from time to time :D I need a script to allert me if there's a error like "java heappspace" or "out of memory" in the... (5 Replies)

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From morning we are facing some issues in tablespaces in oracle9i. Tried deleting some huge records... but even thought it is still giving tablespcases in full. Then i tried and googling ... found we need to purge recyclebin of oracle.. but thats not woking in oracle9i... can any one... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have these commands that help me find and delete files over certain days. How can I build a menu to list the files, and then hit y for yes to delete or no? find /logs/212/abinitio/prod/mfs/partitions/part0/mfs_12way_001/mfs_12way/sncrpt/main/ -name "*dat" -mtime +1 -exec ls -ltr {} \; find... (3 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, i would like to know what is the use of that command apt-get install --purgeI understand the use of --purge while using with remove parameter, but i don't get it when it's about installing. Enlight me please ! Thx ---------- Post updated 09-03-16 at 11:35 AM ---------- Previous... (0 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Appreciate help for the below issue. Im using below code.....I dont want to attach the logs when I ran the perl twice...I just want to take backup with today date and generate new logs...What I need to do for the below scirpt.............. 1)if logs exist it should move the logs with extention... (1 Reply)