1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a few questions about Unix. Can you please help! 1.How do I create an alias that greps the password file for my username and returns my password file entry? Once I get the alias to work I want to be able to let a friend use it .So that he can use the alias to locate his password entry... (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I want to know if there is a way to send unix commands thru FTP from a mainframe to kick off Autosys Jobs. I just need to send a command from the mainframe to UNIX and have UNIX execute that command. (2 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

friends i wanted to now whehter there exists a book as a solution to the questions posted in exercies of the Design of Unix Operating system by Maurice J Bach !..its really urgent !! (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi guys... am new 2 dis unix world... am in need of a unix manual... cud sum1 pls post sum links 2 download it?>?>? :confused: Danks in advance... ;) ;) ;) (1 Reply)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am able to run the UNIX commands in a Windows box from a UNIX box through "SSH" functionality. But whenever the SSH connection is established between UNIX and Windows, password for windows box is being asked. Is there a way to avoid asking password whenever the SSH connection is made? Can I... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

i define a function outside the nawk command which trims the leading and trailing spaces like function TrimSpace(x) { y=gsub(/^+|+$/,"",x) { return x } } and i want to call this function in nawk commad like. nawk '{print TrimSpace($1)}' file Note:... (2 Replies)

7. Solaris

Hi Folks, I am used to writing scripts to get info by running commands at local zones level from their respective global zone by using zlogin <localzone> "command>" while remaining at the global zone level. Can the same be done with Guest LDoms while remaining at the control LDOM level? ... (4 Replies)

8. Homework & Coursework Questions

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9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I want to read a text file and replace various number of spaces between each string in to a single "," or any other character .Please let me know the command to do so. My input file is a txt file which is the output of a SQL table extract so it contains so many spaces between each column of the... (2 Replies)

10. Homework & Coursework Questions

The 'env' command prints out all of the environment variables and their values. Come up with a command that prints a list of environment variables whose names end with either 'NAME', 'DIR' or 'PATH'. What I've tried. $ env | grep '' Although it highlights the part of the variables... (8 Replies)