Just for interest the $ sign (only) at the end of the line when viewed with "sed" tells me that this is a normal unix text file.
The problem with the script is the backticks. Not required in this context and will cause the error you are seeing. It will try to execute each file in the directory list and fail on the first one because it is not in $PATH !
Hi,
I have a script as follows:
#!/bin/sh
nohup ./my_program >& /dev/null &
However, i get a "Generated or received a file descriptor number that is not valid" whenever I run it.
running the command up in prompt is ok though.
if i change the first line to #!/bin/csh
i get a then:... (4 Replies)
Please help urgently.
I need to setup up some sort of service on a solaris server on a port.
I dont need it do anything special, anything that is sent to this port from an external server should be dump to /dev/null or a flat file..
Can you help urgently? (1 Reply)
Hi, Anyone can help
My solaris 8 system has the following
/dev/null , /dev/tty and /dev/console
All permission are lrwxrwxrwx
Can this be change to a non-world write ??
any impact ?? (12 Replies)
Hi,
Excuse my ignorance here - I'm a networks man and my knowledge of all things unix is somewhat limited.
We have a very large file (/var/tmp/mond.log) that we need to zero - does the "cat /dev/null > /var/tmp/mond.log" command achieve this? (4 Replies)
Hello,
I am working on a script to measure the read performance of a busybox environment. The logical choice is to use a command line like:
(time cp * /dev/null) 2> /tmp/howlong.txt
Ah, the rub is cp or /dev/null will only accept a single file at a time.
The result in the txt file is and... (1 Reply)
I stumbled across a somewhat strange behavior of tar and find no explanation for it: i was testing a DVD for read errors and thought to simply tar the content and direct the output to /dev/null:
tar -cvf - /my/mountpoint/*ts > /dev/null
This way i expected the system to read the complete... (4 Replies)
How are these two different? They both prevent output and error from being displayed. I don't see the use of the "&"
echo "hello" > /dev/null 2>&1
echo "hello" > /dev/null 2>1 (3 Replies)
Hi Guru's,
I am trying to test the network speed or load by this command.
but getting error " Not Connected ". Could you guys please help.
ftp> put "|dd if=/dev/zero bs=8k count=1000000" /dev/null
Not connected.
Please use
code tags! (9 Replies)
I apologize if this question has been answered else where or is too elementary.
I ran across a KSH script (long unimportant story) that does this:
if ; then
CAS_SRC_LOG="/var/log/cas_src.log 2>&1"
else
CAS_SRC_LOG="/dev/null 2>&1"
fithen does this:
/usr/bin/echo "heartbeat:... (5 Replies)
I'm using an text-to-speech synthesis in a script, and I need to redirect it's output to /dev/null
how can I do that ? And how to redirect the stream to his normal output then (sound card ) ?
thankx (2 Replies)
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gzexe
GZEXE(1) General Commands Manual GZEXE(1)NAME
gzexe - compress executable files in place
SYNOPSIS
gzexe [ name ... ]
DESCRIPTION
The gzexe utility allows you to compress executables in place and have them automatically uncompress and execute when you run them (at a
penalty in performance). For example if you execute ``gzexe /bin/cat'' it will create the following two files:
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 9644 Feb 11 11:16 /bin/cat
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 24576 Nov 23 13:21 /bin/cat~
/bin/cat~ is the original file and /bin/cat is the self-uncompressing executable file. You can remove /bin/cat~ once you are sure that
/bin/cat works properly.
This utility is most useful on systems with very small disks.
OPTIONS -d Decompress the given executables instead of compressing them.
SEE ALSO gzip(1), znew(1), zmore(1), zcmp(1), zforce(1)CAVEATS
The compressed executable is a shell script. This may create some security holes. In particular, the compressed executable relies on the
PATH environment variable to find gzip and some other utilities (tail, chmod, ln, sleep).
BUGS
gzexe attempts to retain the original file attributes on the compressed executable, but you may have to fix them manually in some cases,
using chmod or chown.
GZEXE(1)