I am fairly new to *nix/linux and I have just installed SuSe 8.2. I am wondering what skills would be good to learn. I know that I will need to learn how to write scripts, but what scripting languages should I learn. I greatly appreciate any and all comments.
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Hi,
I have a file, that is delimited by :: and the purpose of this file is none of your business. ;)
There are about 65000 lines in this file, and there are lines that I would like to remove. About 45000 of them.
Is there some sort of commands that I can run, to remove word(s) from this... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I have text file while looks this
test1
test2
test3
test4
test5
test6
and if I want to parse it and make new file which would like this
test1 test2
test3 test4
test5 test6
How can I do this in korn shell script
Thanks (9 Replies)
hey all, I have repeatedly seen scripts containing the following syntax,
grep "hello" $myfile >> $log 2>&1
can anyone explain exactly what "2>&1" mean? THANK YOU (4 Replies)
Dear all,
I have a question related to parallel programing and if you can give me some hints on how to deal with it, it would be really great.
I would like to run a small application on a supercompter of 128 CPUs. Unfortunately, on this machine only jobs which require 32 CPUs are allowed to... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am looking to install en_US.UTF-8 on to a solaris 10 Sparc server. Is it possible to install this character set from the iso image? I have an iso image only (sol_10_u.iso) on CD.
I have used the command below but with no success. Any pointers to get this installed would be greatly... (5 Replies)
Hello everyone,
Just started UNIX today! In our school we use solaris. I just want to know how do I setup Solaris 10 not the GUI one, the one where you have to type the commands like ECHO, ls, pwd, etc... I have windows xp and I also have vmware.
I hope I am not missing anything! :p (4 Replies)
Hello everyone,
I am having to do a lot of perl scripting these days and I am learning a lot.
I have this problem
I want to move files from a folder and all its sub folders to one parent folder, they are all .gz files..
there is folder1\folder2\*.gz
and there are about 50 folders... (1 Reply)
I was looking through some code online and came accross this...
ls *.txt | grep text1 | cat file1 – file2 | `echo wc –l`
I know what "ls|grep text1" does and I know a word count gets echoed but beyond that I am confused. Please use layman terms as much as possible as I am a newbie. (8 Replies)
Hi, I previously installed basemap by using the yum command. This installed version 0.99.4. I want to install the latest version but am having some problems. My system info is,
$ uname -a
Linux David 3.3.0-4.fc16.i686 #1 SMP Tue Mar 20 18:45:14 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linuxyum doesnt seem to... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: davcra
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
gpe-question
GPE-QUESTION(1) gpe-question GPE-QUESTION(1)NAME
gpe-question - GPE interface for asking questions from shell scripts.
SYNOPSIS
gpe-question [---icon] name {--question "Question text"} {--buttons icon1:text1} [icon2:text2 ...]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page was written for the Debian(TM) distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
gpe-question provides dialogues to raise a question within the GPE Palmtop Environment with cancel and ok buttons.
OPTIONS --question STRING
The question to ask the user via the dialogue.
--buttons type:label
The type and label of the button(s) to be shown. Repeat for additional buttons.
EXAMPLES
gpe-question "test" --question "Do you want to check first?" --buttons YES:yes NO:no
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> for the Debian(TM) system (but may be used by others). Permission is
granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version
published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
AUTHOR
Moray Allen
Author.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2007 Neil Williams
Debian 1 January 16, 2007 GPE-QUESTION(1)