1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Keeping in mind that I'm relatively comfortable with programming in general but very new to unix and korn/bourne shell scripts.. I'm using awk on a CSV file, and then performing calculations and operations on specific fields within specific records. The CSV file I'm working with has about 600... (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I was told that it's a Bad Idea (especially for root ) to Add To the Variable $PATH in unix the ":." (dot), In order to execute programs in my current directory without typing ./program For example: PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:. Does someone know why is it a Bad Idea? (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Reading this file. I want to read all 4 fields. If 2 is populated with a p, I want to set $TYPEP to "Printers", if not should be empty. If 3 is populated with an r, I want to set $TYPER to "REQ Printers" if not should be empty. If 4 is populated with letter o, I want to set $TYPEO to... (12 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi how floppy disks, CDs and flash drives (pen drives) are accessed in UNIX? thanks (0 Replies)

5. OS X (Apple)

Well i was tidying up some files in a very important directory on our development server and somehow some plank had put a recursive sybmolic link in it. Which I the even bigger plank tried to delete from my FTP client. My FTP client then thought it would be OK to delete not only the sybmolic link... (0 Replies)

6. Programming

if i declare both but don't input any variables what values will the int array and file pointer array have on default, and if i want to reset any of the elements of both arrays to default, should i just set it to 0 or NULL or what? (1 Reply)

7. What is on Your Mind?

What do you think of the idea of selling flash drives already prepared to boot Puppy Linux on PCs? (I still need to see if I can boot on Macs using online instructions I've found.) I know it's not too hard to prep your own flash drive, even if you have to buy one first, but just think about why... (8 Replies)

8. SuSE

Hi all, I am currently using opensuse 12.1, We have Raid 5 array of 8 disks. A friend of mine accidently removed a drive & place it back and also added a new disk to it(making it 9 disks). now the output of mdadm --detail is as shown below si64:/dev # mdadm --detail /dev/md3 /dev/md3:... (1 Reply)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

file1 chr pos1 pos2 pos3 pos4 1)chr1 1000 2000 3000 4000 2)chr1 1380 1480 6800 7800 3)chr1 6700 7700 1200 2200 4)chr2 8500 9500 5670 6670 file2 chr pos1 pos2 pos3 pos4 1)chr2 8500 9500 5000 6000 2)chr1 6700 7700 1200 2200 3)chr1 1380 1480 6700 7700 4)chr1 1000 2000 4900 5900 I... (2 Replies)