1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have two questions I am struggling with... How do the programs p1, p2, and p3 need to handle their standard files so they can work like this: p1 | p2 | p3 ? What exactly is this command supposed to do? $ kill -QUIT %1 & This command below? $ sort -o emp.lst emp lst & Any... (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Howdie everyone... I have a shell script RemoveFiles.sh Inside this file, it only has two commands as below: rm -f ../../reportToday/temp/* rm -f ../../report/* My problem is that when i execute this script, nothing happened. Files remained unremoved. I don't see any error message as it... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a school project to create a shell program same as calendar i must create a txt file with celebrations with vi i know this but the problem is i don't know awk and grep. The object of object is to create a program who read a date an appear the celebration. Can you help me please !!!... (1 Reply)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am trying to make a simple while loop which reads in a text until the person types quit. And it's not working, and I know it's a rather simple problem I just can't seem to understand... Once again all assistance is greatly appreciated. #!/bin/sh astring="z" while astring!="quit" do read... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi. Does any one know when the below will print hi ? || echo hi Thanks in advance (5 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I need your assistance, I would like to replace all lines beginning with the word "begin" with the below text: Device | IPMB0-A | IPMB0-B Board Address |Sent SentErr %Errr |Sent SentErr ... (9 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

My script work on Linux but not work in sun os. my script. logFiles="sentLog1.log sentLog2.log" intial_time="0 0" logLocation="/usr/local/tomcat/logs/" sleepTime=600 failMessage=":: $(tput bold)Log not update$(tput rmso) = " successMessage="OK" arr=($logFiles)... (7 Replies)

8. IP Networking

hi all. and sorry for the random question, but this sparkled a raging flame-war at work and i want more points of view situation a router, with linux of some sort, dhcp client requesting for ip in wan1 (as usual with wan ports) dhcp server listening in lan1, and assigning ip (as usual... (9 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a find command that searches for all the .properties under current directory and its subdirectories. find . -name "*.properties" I would like to pass the output of the above find command to my "operation.sh script as the second parameter. for eg: ./operation.sh 775 ... (2 Replies)