1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Trying to install something. Can someone explain what this means? chmod -R a+r . chmod -R a+w logo.gif tempdir/ templates_c/ I recognize that file permissions are being changed (chmod), but beyond that, it's Greek to me. (6 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi everybody. please help me in understanding this code. echo "************* starting job on `date +\"%d/%m/%Y at %T\"` **************" # scriptdir=`dirname $0` . ${scriptdir}/env_params.sh # SHLIB_PATH=${ORACLE_HOME}/lib: export SHLIB_PATH export... (1 Reply)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello: I'm a totally newbie here. My company has UNIX. My development team would like me to learn UNIX and shell scripting. I've worked with Linux in the past, very briefly. I have Ubuntu installed on my laptop. I was wondering whether or not the shell scripting for Linux is the same... (0 Replies)

4. Programming

Hi, I have started reading about Linux kernel. The books also explains about the source code here and there. I found a file named head.s in the source which i am not able to understand, it looks like some assembly language. Can anyone confirm this, so that can start looking for assemble... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

ORACLE_HOME=/opt/ora10g/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1;export ORACLE_HOME PATH=.:$ORACLE_HOME/bin:/usr/bin;export PATH ORACLE_SID=USUP PASS=Figomom#0;export PASS rm /orabkup/USUP/*.Z if ] then echo $PASS | sqlplus system@USUP @/home/ora10g/crons/scripts/hot.sql echo $PASS | sqlplus... (5 Replies)

6. Ubuntu

recommend books to understand ubuntu ...... (14 Replies)

7. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

statement 1 : I see everyone saying Unix follows a tree like hierarchial structure. Statement 2: Unix file system has four blocks 1.boot block 2.super block 3.inodes 4.data block My question is , in which of the above four blocks , the hierarchial structure comes.?? How could we corelate... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, If I could get some assistance breaking down this Unix script in order to better understand it. A co-worker wrote this script and is no longer with us. I believe this script converts documents into .txt files, but we are trying to edit it so that it converts documents to .pdf automatically... (1 Reply)