1. Shell Programming and Scripting

At work, we use a software development product (from a company that will remain nameless, but whose name may be considered a synonym for "logical"). The development trees are organized beneath a top directory, let's call it "$rat". The first level under $rat contains the major system names, and... (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello im looking for sites or tutorials how to extend vi (not vim) for programming and scripting beyond simple editing . Thanks allot (0 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Guys, I have a script that I am using to convert some text files to xls files. I create multiple temp. files in the process of conversion. Other than reducing the temp. files, are there any general tricks to help speed up the script? I am running it in the bash shell. Thanks. (6 Replies)

4. UNIX and Linux Applications

Hi, Where do i post Oracle DB related questions?? I basically have 2 questions - 1. What is pmon and smon? Difference between them? If either or both process fail then how can we monitor them? 2. Is lsnrctl same as tnslsnr? if i want to check for listener status then how would i do... (2 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, I find a trick to avoid pressing ESC without key-maping in vim. I am pleasure using this method, because ALT key is very comfortble for thumb to press. What's the trick? the ALT key. When you are in INSERT mod, press ALT+l switch to COMMAND mod without... (2 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, We used to use the below commands often. ps -ef|grep bc ps -ef|grep abc|grep -v grep Both fairly returns the same result. For example, the process name is dynamic and we are having the process name in a variable, how we can apply the above trick. For example "a" is the... (11 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all, It does not seem to be possible to use vi to search from text from line n forward or backward or is there a not well known vi trick to do that? What I am trying to do is for example I am on line 100 and I want to search from line 100 backward or forward for a specific text. Using /... (3 Replies)

8. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hi, Is there any command to do this -- Input is -- Ant Bat Cat Dog Output is -- A_Ant B_Ant A_Bat B_Bat A_Cat B_Cat A_Dog B_Dog (12 Replies)