Hello everyone I am a newcomer to UNIX and I have hit a snag in something that would probably take experienced people about 30 seconds. Long story short I am trying to add a directory to my PATH and it is getting added but not working. I mean, the object of adding it to the path is so I can access it anywhere in my terminal right?
I am also confused about delimiters needed in tschrc. Do I need colons or not?
I used the command:
Code:
echo ' set PATH = ($PATH /usr/local/bin:/c4251/bin:)' >> ~/.cshrc
this added the directory permanently to the end of my path but i cannot access it from my home directory so what good is it?
I added in colons because it appeared the other entries had them. Does this not work because there is a space in between the last entries? If this is the problem how to I correct this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am a beginner in UNIX!
I'm using Linux-Mandrake 8.0 in my laptop. After I logged in as a "root", I added a new path in my .bashrc file (I use bash shell). Then I can observe it has been set correctly by typing echo $PATH.
But, when I log in again as a personal account, not "root", then I open my bash shell, and type... (5 Replies)
If I the path to a directory, what command can I use to return the actual name of that directory.
test=`pwd`/folder1
> $test
folder1
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Hi,
I have a file abcd.txt which has contents in the form of full path file names i.e.
$home> vi abcd.txt
/a/b/c/r1.txt
/q/w/e/r2.txt
/z/x/c/r3.txt
Now I want to retrieve only the directory path name for each row
i.e
/a/b/c/
/q/w/e/
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If I enter (simplified):
find . -printf "%p\n"
then all files in the output are prepended by a "." like
./local/share/test23.log
How can achieve that
a.) the leading "./" is omitted
and/or
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Hello,
I am on solaris 9 (KSH) and I am on trouble while using a command line in a script to get the directory size of a directory.
/usr/bin/du -sk /data/_restit
typeset -i rep_size=` /usr/bin/du -sk /data/_restit |cut -d"/" -f1 `
echo "${rep_size}"
I did try different way to write the... (6 Replies)
Guys,
I did a search on this but couldn't find any thing.
I need to add /home/scadm/scripts to the PATH. If I do the below it works for the session I'm in. If I close it and reopen it doesnt work.
PATH=$PATH\:/home/scadm/scripts ; export PATH
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My input is as below :
/splunk/scrubbed/rebate/IFIND.REBTE.WROC.txt
/splunk/scrubbed/rebate/IFIND.REBTE.WROC.txt
/splunk/scrubbed/loyal/IFIND.HELLO.WROC.txt
/splunk/scrubbed/triumph/ifind.triumph.txt
From the above input I want to extract the file names only .
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I ssh in and am trying to add a directory permanently to $PATH in centos 7 and having issues. My current $PATH is
echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin
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# .bashrc
# User specific aliases and functions
alias... (7 Replies)
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fchdir
chdir(2) System Calls Manual chdir(2)NAME
chdir, fchdir - change working directory
SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION
and cause a directory pointed to by path or fildes to become the current working directory, the starting point for path searches of path
names not beginning with path points to the path name of a directory. fildes is an open file descriptor of a directory.
For a directory to become the current working directory, a process must have execute (search) access to the directory.
RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
fails and the current working directory remains unchanged if one or more of the following are true:
A component of the path name is not a directory.
The named directory does not exist.
Search permission is denied for any component of the path name.
path points outside the allocated address space of the process. The reliable detection of this error is implemen-
tation dependent.
path is null.
The length of the specified path name exceeds
bytes, or the length of a component of the path name exceeds bytes while is in effect.
Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the path name.
fails and the current working directory remains unchanged if one or more of the following are true:
Search permission is denied for
fildes.
fildes is not an open file descriptor.
The open file descriptor
fildes does not refer to a directory.
AUTHOR
and were developed by AT&T Bell Laboratories and HP.
SEE ALSO cd(1), chroot(2), privileges(5).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE chdir(2)