1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have some basic doubts. Can someone clarify in this forum? 1)if then eval ' tset -s -Q -m ':?hp' ' else eval ' tset -s -Q ' what does it exactly mean in .profile? 2) what are 'nobody' and 'noaccess' usernames in /etc/passwd file. ... (3 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How to know if my AIX 5.2 is running at 64bits? THANKS (5 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello all. Let me start off by saying I know a little more then it seems by me asking this question... here goes I have an old 486 box and I want to start messing around with unix. I've been taking classes for 3 or 4 years in c programming in unix, so I am used to the commands and such, but I... (1 Reply)

4. HP-UX

Could someone tell me the command to find out the OS version which will give 12 character not the 9 characters(which is usually machine id). uname -i gives machine id and uname -a is more comprehensive way to look. Thanks! (4 Replies)

5. Programming

Hi there. I've got 12 years experience writing C++ on Windows, and 3 years C# on Windows. Now my boss wants me to write a C++ app to run on Unix as a multithreaded 'service' (i.e. a program that runs with no user intervention). Some quick questions for The Experts: * Whats the best C++... (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi, I have a basic question,, i am in a directory called /intas/OCU_3.9.1/sbin ocuut1@france>mv itsa_tcs itsa_tcs_old mv: itsa_tcs_old: rename: Permission denied i am logging as the owner of the file. when i am doing this i am getting the above error of permission denied. I know... (3 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello everyone, Just started UNIX today! In our school we use solaris. I just want to know how do I setup Solaris 10 not the GUI one, the one where you have to type the commands like ECHO, ls, pwd, etc... I have windows xp and I also have vmware. I hope I am not missing anything! :p (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello everyone, I am having to do a lot of perl scripting these days and I am learning a lot. I have this problem I want to move files from a folder and all its sub folders to one parent folder, they are all .gz files.. there is folder1\folder2\*.gz and there are about 50 folders... (1 Reply)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

what is a assembler what isa interpreter what is a compiler what is a socket what is a port what is meant by listening to a port how we do it how to know version and standard of unix one is using when one is on public access unix account how to see a jobid in... (1 Reply)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I was trying to change the value of the 4th column (put '1' in the 4th column of each row). My awk command is: awk -F, '{$3=1;}1' OFS= input.txt > ./test_out.txt My input file is: a 1 2 31 b 4 5 61 c 7 8 91 My output file (test_out.txt)is: a 1 2 31 b 4 5 61 c 7 8 91 What... (4 Replies)