1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello all, I need a help in unix. is there any command in unix similar to doskey in MS Dos. It taked pain to enter the big command again and again.. the up and down arrows do not bring the previous commands on the prompt. so pls let me know if there is any command to enable the doskey kind of... (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

ptree command is not working in zsh. Could anyone let me know the equivalent of ptree command in zsh. (3 Replies)

3. Gentoo

at work, I'm a UNIX administrator, but at home I use openSUSE 11. One of the commands that I use to assist me in trouble shooting A LOT is called ptree process tree. does anyone know of a ptree for linux? yes, I can just use ps -ef and see who the parent pid is and then 'ps -ef | grep <parent... (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi , I just wondering if there is any command that works similar to the expect command. I'm trying to setup a korn shell script that goes to remote servers and executes a command likes : su - username -c "script to execute " but then it'll prompt for the password so if I can provide... (1 Reply)

5. Solaris

Hi Dears, I believe you know authconfig on most of Linux Distributions. However, on Solaris OS, I don't know the similar tool. Could you please share me the tool, if any? Note: I am using SunOS 5.10. (0 Replies)

6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Unix (and Linux) uses a process tree that gives a natural security, by simple inheritance of attributes. The following ptree script shows it. It runs on all Linux flavors. Mostly useful for debugging. #!/bin/sh # Solaris style ptree && exec /usr/bin/ptree "$@" ... (6 Replies)