1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I want to learn UNIX, but I have a few questions. If anybody could help me out I'd greatly appreciate it. First, I've decided I'm going to use Red Hat Linux and I've been told the only difference between 7.2 and the Professional (besides the price), is the tech support that you'll receive. Is... (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hey, you said this forum was for Dummies, so don't blame me for the following! :D My whole "web building" life, I've had my sites hosted in one for or another. Lately, I've gotten into PHP and MySQL and, of course, those are also hosted for me. But lately, I've been thinking of using PHP and... (2 Replies)

3. AIX

Hi all, From Googling, I found that the basics used for troubleshooting UNIX/AIX performance issues are commands like vmstat, iostat and sar. I believe these are generic commands regardless of what UNIX flavour is in used, only difference being is the format of the output. In a real case... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

echo "Hi $username, guess what my favourite colour is!" count=0 while ] do read colour if then $count=1 echo "See ya later!" elif then $count=1 echo "You guessed correctly! Great job!"... (6 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, 1) I am trying to get involved in UNIX for educational purposes so I have installed the latest Ubuntu edition 12.04. Do you know another package that I could use it instead for educational purposes? 2)What is the difference between "~$" and "/$" (it comes with cd / and cd ~) .The... (1 Reply)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a unix command that prompts for 'y'. How do I run this from my shell script? (4 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I am new to Unix. can you explain in brief with examples what is variable, what is argument and what is parameter? i searched a lot on other forums but not able to find a appropriate answer. thanks in advance!! (3 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all, I have 3-4 years of experience working on unix environment. I am not a beginner, but unix is not my primary skill set. I am very good at awk programming and doing many of my tasks very well, really very weak on basics. I moved to a new job recently and the settings there are driving me... (5 Replies)

9. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Here I am in a position to write a Unix Shell script(.sh) to remove MongoDB collection documents. I know how to remove based on a condition like below and it works for me. eval 'db.Collection.remove({TimeStamp:{$lte: "'$var'"}}) But I need to change the remove statement based on a new parameter... (1 Reply)