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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers default shell for the user Post 302590736 by pandeesh on Tuesday 17th of January 2012 09:23:29 AM
Old 01-17-2012
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Originally Posted by methyl
If your homework today is about finding out what Shells are allowed on your system, there is system flat file containing a list of valid shells. This is referred to by commands that add or modify user accounts.
Can you explain this? Where we can find out the flat file?
 

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BP_BIOFLAT_INDEX(1p)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				      BP_BIOFLAT_INDEX(1p)

NAME
bioflat_index.pl - index sequence files using Bio::DB::Flat DESCRIPTION
Create or update a biological sequence database indexed with the Bio::DB::Flat indexing scheme. The arguments are a list of flat files containing the sequence information to be indexed. USAGE
bioflat_index.pl <options> file1 file2 file3... Options: --create Create or reinitialize the index. If not specified, the index must already exist. --format <format> The format of the sequence files. Must be one of "genbank", "swissprot", "embl" or "fasta". --location <path> Path to the directory in which the index files are stored. --dbname <name> The symbolic name of the database to be created. --indextype <type> Type of index to create. Either "bdb" or "flat". "binarysearch" is the same as "flat". Options can be abbreviated. For example, use -i for --indextype. The following environment variables will be used as defaults if the corresponding options are not provided: OBDA_FORMAT format of sequence file OBDA_LOCATION path to directory in which index files are stored OBDA_DBNAME name of database OBDA_INDEX type of index to create perl v5.14.2 2012-03-02 BP_BIOFLAT_INDEX(1p)
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