1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I know in DOS, when you want to pull up your last/previous command, you hit the up/down arrows. How do you do that with UNIX? (3 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Wat is the difference between the cp mv ln etc in /usr/sbin/static and cp mv ln functions in /usr/bin (4 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi guys trying to understand what this line means sed is a stream editor and i understand that, i have a file already selected i want to edit so i use -e sed -e the next stesp is s/$* s is a subsititute replacement sed -e s/$*//g $ is in reference of the last line /g makes it... (2 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I am new to UNIX, and am learning from this tutorial : http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/index.html It keeps telling me to files downloaded from the internet (like .txt files) to the directory, and I dont know how to. How do I add .txt files to my directory? Thanks. (6 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, Is there a simple way, using ksh, to find the byte position in a file that a stated character appears? Many thanks Helen (2 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

from command prompt I did grep two words on a same line for eg: grep abc | grep xyz and I got tht particular line, but I want to know when I vi that file how to directly search for that particular line? I appreciate if any one can provide answer, thanks in advance (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am using sed to find a pattern in a line and then I want to retain the pattern + the rest of the line. How is this possible? ie: line is: 14158 05-15-08 20:00 123-1234-A21/deliverable/dhm.a search for 123-1234-A21 ie: echo $line | sed 's/.*\(\{3\}-\{4\}-\{3\}\{5\}\).*/\1/' ... (1 Reply)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I'd like to list all userid's on the system that have a .bashrc file in their home directory with a command like "cat /etc/passwd | grep -f", however I'm not quite familiar with using grep. Any suggestions? (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

What I'm trying to do is leave a tcpdump running all the time on a server, and at the end of every day kill it and start a new one. For some reason my boss doesn't want to set this up as a cron job, so I've come up with the following.: #!/bin/bash PCAPFILE=/tmp/mgmt.$(date... (8 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I'm trying to find an nice solution for the following: 1) I have ranges of numbers (begin-end): 10-15, 20-30, 45-50 2) I have begin limit=0 and end limit=60. 3) I need to find out number ranges between begin limit and end limit that do not overlap with the ranges in item1. In this... (6 Replies)