1. Linux

If i want to display a banner that says Happy Bday, but I want to put that output banner into a file called bday4me, could I use the command (echo) or (banner -w35) Happy Bday >> bday4me would this command work? Sorry for asking, but i'm at home just now and don't have access to a UNIX... (3 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi everyone im new here and im hoping you could help me out here. Yesterday i removed a time stamp from a program that i am using.This timestamp should contain a date of 04/04/2008 with a time sometime in that day. the stamp in hex is 7C FE 2B 04 DA 4E E3 40 ive looked everywhere and im... (1 Reply)

3. Post Here to Contact Site Administrators and Moderators

Hey everyone. I wasn't sure what it meant when my profile said it had 1 infraction against it, so I thought I'd check it out. Unfortunately, I can't find the post in question. The date from the post in question is 07-09-2008 at 04:24 AM, but from what I can tell is marked as 'private'. I'd... (2 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello All, Hope all is well, Suppose I have a program that extracted data into a file called: progcros.in. I attached the file but I renamed it progcros.txt. I think that my mess up the column alignment. Anyways, in several columns there are numbers listed, however the numbers... (4 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Friends, I have following 50,000 records in .txt file. I need to round field 3, 4, & 5 to 3 decimal places. 11|A123|-2.64216408856E01|3.64216408856E01|4.64216408856E-01 11|A123|0|-5.64216408856E01|0 11|A123|0|0|0 11|A123|-99999999|-99999999|-99999999... (4 Replies)

6. IP Networking

In the IP addresses 193.32.156.0/24 and 169.183.0.0/16, what do the /16 and /24 represent? (5 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

wondering if anyone has any thoughts to convert the below thru a shell script Convert decimal signalling point notation to ANSI point code notation There is a site that does that conversion but i need to implement the solution in a shell script.....Thoughts.... OS: Solaris 9 ... (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Just a very brief question, but I have a script written in a C-like language possibly tcl with the line set var ... ...All I want to know, is ** multiplication or is it exponentiation? What is the ** operator? (1 Reply)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

hello folks, I have few values in a log which are in scientific notation. I am trying to convert into actual decimal format or integer but couldn't able to convert. Values in scientific notation: 1.1662986666666665E-4 2.0946799999999998E-4 3.0741333333333333E-6 5.599999999999999E-7... (2 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hello... And thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer me I was trying to work out the differences between displaying modify, access, and change times with the 'ls' command. Everything seems in order when I look at files, but the access time on a directory doesn't seem to change when I... (4 Replies)