1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I've been racking my brains trying to remember, but, whats the command to change the default shell? I'm currently always in the Korn shell and I want to start out in the Bash shell. I'm running a variant of BSD I guess in Mac OS X 10.2.2 and Mandrake. Thanks. ccindyderek:confused: (4 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

in aix, i use grep something * to get the files, lines that contain something. but i couldnt get the same result from a sun box. what is the equivalent? thanks (4 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Perl, Python, and PHP are these languages easy to use? Are they command line or are they part of a GUI? (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Just a quick question on grep/egrep. I am writing a shell script that is looking for certain strings in a text file. It works well and gets exactly what I need. However, the way the program writes to the text file, it puts the timestamp in a line above the string I am looking for and the path... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Greetings all, Unix rookie here, just diving into ksh scripting for the first time. My question may seem confusing but please bear with me: If I'm understanding everything I'm reading properly, it seems like the ksh language itself doesn't have a lot of string manipulation functions of... (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I've been trying to write a regex to use in egrep (in a shell script) that'll fetch the names of all the files that match a particular pattern. I expect to match the following line in a file: Name = "abc" The regex I'm using to match the same is: egrep -l '(^) *= *" ** *"$' /PATH_TO_SEARCH... (6 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, my xml files looks something like this <Instance Name="New York"> <Description></Description> <Instance Name="A"> <Description></Description> <PropertyValue Key="false" Name="Building A" /> </Instance> <Instance Name="B"> ... (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to find out which files in a group of files have lines ending in r. What I have is this: cat /tmp/*RECORDS| if grep r$>/dev/null; then echo "yes";else echo"no";fi Records is more than one file. There are the following files TEST-RECORDS /volume/testing /volume/programs ... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I need to find files in a specified folder where are two specified lines of text and delate that lines. It looks like this" 35. ?>NL 36. <iframe>.......</iframe>NLThe problem is that "?>" is in the other lines and id should not be removed if the next line is not like "<iframe>....." So... (4 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I need help to grep a specific part of a log file (bold). 24/2/2017-16:57:17.056 frosti-1 M3UA-Tx: } 24/2/2017-16:57:17.056 frosti-1 M3UA-Tx: extensionContainer <Not Present> 24/2/2017-16:57:17.056... (8 Replies)