@ bakjunin: Yes sorry, was just looking at the threads title.
@ kwliew999: No, man is same for both, but tar is like compress.
Sorry for the irritation.
But either way, these kind of commands usualy provide arguments to overwrite (or not) any possible conflicting files.
And terminal commands usualy come along with (sometimes just either one of) these arguments:
Which i prefer on many occasions, since i can grep for keywords, which i'm not aware to do in manpages.
Helps alot to get quicker to the helpfull 'part'.
When I login to a specific machine (running Solaris 2.8; actually serveral machines behave this way), with a known good account, I don't get any shell prompt, and no screen responses to various commands such as ID and PWD. Any ideas on what is causing this, and how to change this behavior? (2 Replies)
Hi, I´m using SCO Unix 5.0.5 and I want to configure de variable PS1, so when I type the command:
cd /etc/
the prompt shows
/etc/_>
Is that possible with sh shell? I´ll appreciate your help.
Thanks, a Happy New Year! (1 Reply)
currently, I set my prompt in my .cshrc file as:
set prompt = "%B%h %m %P %/ \n% "
I have to use certain shells for some specific tasks and would like to set different prompts depending on the type of shell that I am using. Any advice?
Thanks (3 Replies)
Hi,
I saw something in weird in Shell prompt.
I did the following steps
1) Typed ls -l and pressed ESC without entering
2) Typed "v" (please notice that I did not type "i" after "v"), which opened vi editor
3) I see the "ls -l" command that I typed in shell prompt
4) Without modifying... (6 Replies)
Hi All experts, I was asked some questions of late & i was not aware of these. 1Q. how much we can pipe in shell prompt ?2Q. how many arguments we can pass in shell script & how to print that ? (eg, if i want to know what I passed in 11th Argument) ( for 3rd argument we can do echo $3, but I think... (7 Replies)
Hi
How to call a shell scripting through a Perl scripting? Actually I need some value from Shell scripting and passes in the Perl scripting. So how can i do this? (2 Replies)
Hi,
I want to change the shell prompt, using the cd command.
I have a shell prompt like this -
p78-mfx(dgaw1078/9781)$
Now i do this -
p78-mfx(dgaw1078/9781)$ cd log4j
here the shell prompt should change like this -
p78-mfx(dgaw1078/9781)log4j$ (6 Replies)
I have to run a script provided by a vendor. Its an executable so I can't change it.
basically after I call it it prompts me for a password. The script does not provide a way for me to pass a password with the command that calls the script.
I would like to automate running this script from... (5 Replies)
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When I do on console a stop, the script prompts for password
> stop_idm_suite.sh
Suite system password:Here experct of the shell script stop_idm_suite.sh
DoIt()
{
# prompt System password
echo ""
${BMC_JAVA_HOME}/java -Didm.suite.home=${BMC_IDM_SUITE_HOME} -classpath... (1 Reply)