1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

1. If I use an software application(which connects to the database in the server) in my local pc, how many PID should be registered? Would there be PID for the session and another PID for socket connection? 2. I noticed (through netstat) that when I logged in using the my software application,... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Say I have a file 'example.txt' with these lines of code in it: hello:anddasd:cheese:gerg whatever:sdadsa:asdfasdfa:wwew hmmmm:something:gfhfhgf:sdasdas Question: 1. How would I write a script which is able to take all the words before the first ':'? 2. How would I write a script which is... (6 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I am getting the PID of a process using its name using the following command in a script mypid=`ps aux | awk '/test5/ && !/awk/ { print $2 }'` echo PID is $mypid The problem is the PID is not getting printed. But when i run the command directly in shell, the PID got printed. ... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

1.56.253.48 - - "GET " 1.6.253.48 - - "GET " 1.65.253.48 - - "GET " 1.65.253.48 - - "GET " 1.63.53.48 - - "GET " 1.65.253.48 - - "GET " 1.16.23.48 - - "GET " 1.64.25.48 - - "GET " need command which give the output 1.6.253.48 - 09/Nov/2009:07:02:24 1.65.253.48 -... (7 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Can any one tell me the meaning of the following.. I am still learnig unix Thanks in advance 1) if ($1 == "tommCumulative)") { if (PID == 7) { printf(",CUM_READ = to_number(%d,'XXXXXXXXXX')\n",$2 * SC) } else { printf (",CUM_READ =... (4 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All, I am looking for a simple concise solution most likely using sed to process the following 4 rows of data from the same record and only keeps it if the second record satisfy certain critea such as surname matches up to smith or jackson: John (firstname) Smith (surname) ... (21 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I would like to recover the data from 3 text tags. These three markers are located between the tags specific location <tag1> and </tag1> knowing that they are in many places. In File.txt: <tag2>txt2</tag2> <tag3>txt3</tag3> <tag4>txt4</tag4> .... <tag1> <tag2>txt2</tag2>... (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I saw your post.. I have a dought in awk command... how to get the output from a file. i need a first column in etc/passwd file in a single column (in indivijual line)... i couldn't get with this command cat /etc/passwd | awk -F ":" '{printf $1}' Kindly help This thread was created... (3 Replies)

9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, Not sure whether there is a fuser alternative or any better way to check for file in use or not. I am wanting to check whether files are in use or not before removing them. Using fuser, the awk seems to be giving me 'weird' output not to mention that it is giving me 2 lines instead of... (0 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

bash-3.2$ fuser -f /bin/nohup.out /bin/nohup.out: 13136o 13111o The pid is 13136. Can you tell me how can i extract just the pid 13136 from the above output ? bash-3.2$ uname -a SunOS mymac 5.10 Generic_150400-26 sun4v sparc sun4v I was trying on this lines but i get strange... (3 Replies)