I've been told off a couple of times by BA cabin crew for rustling my paper, as is often unavoidable when reading one, while they're strutting their stuff. I was told how important it was to listen just in case I'd never been on this configuration of A321 before. How many are there?!
This is vaguely amusing...
I had no idea Robin Williams was a flight attendant
Hi everyone, I am sort of new to shell scripting,
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I want to move and compress a big export file.
Like mv file_exp /filesystem/file_exp |compress
The file system is too small to compress and move with 2 steps.
What is the best command for me. I'm running solaris.
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Hi,
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Hi,
I am creating files in a folder on the fly with arbritrary names but same extension (say, ".img"). How can I read each filename from the folder through a script.
regards
Angshuman (2 Replies)
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I have an old HPUX 10.20 server running Informix 7.23
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Had an idea tonight which could really enhance shell scripting for me.
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paperconf
PAPERCONF(1) General Commands Manual PAPERCONF(1)NAME
paperconf - print paper configuration informations
SYNOPSYS
paperconf [ [ -p ] paper | -d | -a ] [ -z ] [ -n | -N ] [ -s | -w | -h ] [ -c | -m | -i ]
DESCRIPTION
paperconf prints informations about a given paper. The informations that can be obtaineed are the name of the paper, its size and its
width or height. When called without arguments, paperconf prints the name of the system- or user-specified paper, obtained by looking in
order at the PAPERSIZE environment variable, at the contents of the file specified by the PAPERCONF environment variable, at the contents
of the file /etc/papersize , consulting the values controlled by the LC_PAPER locale setting, or by using letter as a fall-back value if
none of the other alternatives are successful. By default, width and height of the paper are printed in PostScript points.
OPTIONS -p paper
Specify the name of the paper about which informations are asked.
-d Use the default builtin paper name.
-a Consider all known papers names.
-z If the paper name is unknown, print it but issue a message on the standard error and exit with a non-zero code.
-n Print the name of the paper.
-N Print the name of the paper with the first letter capitalized.
-s Print the size (width followed by height) of the paper.
-w Print the width of the paper.
-h Print the height of the paper.
-c Use centimetres as unit for paper size.
-m Use millimetres as unit for paper size.
-i Use inches as unit for paper size.
ENVIRONMENT
PAPERSIZE Paper size to use regardless of what the papersize file contains.
PAPERCONF Full path to a file containing the paper size to use.
FILES
/etc/papersize Contains the name of the system-wide default paper size to be used if the PAPERSIZE and PAPERCONF variables are not
set.
AUTHOR
Yves Arrouye <arrouye@debian.org>
SEE ALSO papersize(5)
24 April 2001 PAPERCONF(1)