1. Solaris

Hello everybody I have a very annoying problem on my Solaris (Unix in general) servers. When I open a shell and press the backspace button, it results in a ^H character being printed on screen. I can resolve it by typing stty erase <backspace>, but does anyone know how I can prevent the... (3 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have to process a data file in Ab Initio. This data file is pipe delimited. BUt the file may have a Disclaimer line at the end. So before picking it for processing, I need to check if this line is there I need to remove it. ANy suggestions. Thanks Shalu (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I'm able to trim down the log message to "192.168.1.0.", but can't get rid off the last period. Can any one help me on the syntax to get rid of the last period? Basically, I want "192.168.1.0" instead of "192.168.1.0." Thanks, (4 Replies)

4. Solaris

Hi: My ultra 10 booted up to the ok prompt. does anyone how to get to the # prompt in normal mode? Alan (1 Reply)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

ok the assignment question: That English paper you were writing on the works of Lewis Carroll is due in a few hours and you have forgeotten the name of the text file in which you has written a number of quotations to use in your paper. Luckily, you know that the file is somewhere in your... (1 Reply)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All, Im selecting a large record from a table and putting it in a file in the unix box. The file has a hidden character "^[[D " present in it. Can any one help me in getting rid of the character Thanks in advance, (4 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Guys, I am creating a couple of temp. files in a script. After completing the script, I am using the rm command to delete these files. The files are getting deleted but I am getting "filename - cannot find file;no such file or directory" error in my bash shell terminal window. I am using... (3 Replies)

8. Linux

Hi all, I am new to unix....pls help me with this. I have a binary file generating output by passing arguments in bash.when i open the output file in VI i can see that ^m is included in between most of lines,as a result when i pass this file to my java application it dosent parse the data... (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a text file with hundreds of 32-character hash codes in it, each terminated with a linefeed (/l, or ^M). 185ead08e45a5cbb51e9f7b0b384aaa2 57643e1a17252a9fc746d49c3da04168 60cba11d09221d52aaabb5db30f408a2 2b75ee6e5c2efc31b4ee9a190d09a4df ...... etc. I want to create a file for each... (6 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am connecting to sql databases through shell script. Databases that i am connecting will need password change every 60 days. This is according to our security policy and cannot be changed. But this is creating problem when connecting to Databases through shell script . To connect to oracle DB we... (2 Replies)