I'm trying to answer the following question about file permissions in Unix. Consider a file with the following permissions:
rwx---r--
I am not the owner of this file, but I am a member of the group of this file.
My question is: do I have read access to this file?
I thought... (3 Replies)
Here's my problem:
I have a laptop running Windows XP Pro with no internal CD or Floppy drives. I want to install Linux on it. I don't care about the Windows XP Pro installation, in fact I would like to install Linux over the entirety of the HD. However I cannot boot from any external CD drive... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I'm in the midst of writing a UNIX script that sftp's files to an external host and am stuck with a problem. The problem is that the files created on my server as a order number that correlates to a sequence of directories on the remote host which is where the file should be ftp'ed.
... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am at a point in my script where I defined the number of the command line parameter I would like to set a variable equal to:
parameter_number=14
I would then like to set a variable equal to the correct parameter:
variable=$parameter_number
The issue here is that {} is required... (2 Replies)
Hello everyone,
unfortunately I am no unix nor scripting guru, which is why I am asking for help here. I am trying to reformat a .csv file using sed or awk which has the following format:
a,b,C-D-E,f,g
h,i,J,k,l
m,n,O-P-Q-R-S,t,u
v,w,X-Y,z,a
It's basically a 5-field text file which has an... (7 Replies)
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I am trying to go the opposite direction now:
I have the following file:
a,b,C,f,g
a,b,D,f,g
a,b,E,f,g
h,i,J,k,l
m,n,O,t,u
m,n,P,t,u
m,n,Q,t,u... (3 Replies)
Hi folks!
My first post here.
I'm working on a script that retrieves a range of files from a list depending on a range of time.
UPDATE:
I've seen it could be difficult to read all this thing, so I'll make a summarize it..
How come I do this and take a result..
grep "..\:.." lista.new |... (4 Replies)
Hello,
i have this issue:
text="-8x7YTVNk2KiuY-PWG5zzzjB-zzw"
string=-8x7YTVNk2KiuY-PWG5zzzjB-zzw
echo $text | grep -v \'$string\'
-8x7YTVNk2KiuY-PWG5zzzjB-zzw
echo \'$string\'
'-8x7YTVNk2KiuY-PWG5zzzjB-zzw'
..and ofcourse if I do like this :
echo $text | grep -v $string
grep: invalid... (5 Replies)
Tricky one:
I want to do several things all at once to blow away a directory (rm -rf <dir>)
1) I want to find all files recursively that have a specific file extension (.ver) for example.
2) Then in that file, I want to grep for an expression ( "sp2" ) for example.
3) Then I want to... (1 Reply)
I have some data files that I can identify by a certain pattern in the names using find.
Every one of those data files has an XML file associated with it (can be multiple data files per XML file).
The XML file is always up one directory from the data file(s) in a folder calledRun##### -... (12 Replies)