1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi I am trying to find out the best way to find out how long a command takes to run in miliseconds .. Is there such a way of doing this in Unix ? Thanks (3 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I understand that to find a type of file using command find I could do "find -type f -name \*.htm -print". However, I wish to find all files BUT *.htm. Can I negate the search somehow? Again, I have peeked into the man files etc... If anyone has an answer, Thanks in Advance! (3 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

The title says it all really. I am writing a shell script for a Linux box, and I have recently run into a problem. I need to make sure I am at a certain run level first. Hence, the question. How can I find out what run level the box is currently running at? Is there a system variable... (2 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

ssh user@host -q -n 'grep `hostname` /etc/hosts; telnet 10.100.23.45 1234;' When i run this command remotely it is hanging and not giving me the prompt, Can anyone tell me how can I exit a telnet command remotely please. Thanks. (10 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

If I run the following command remotely after ssh than it works fine su - oracle -c "/oracle/product/102/db/bin/dbshut" But If I run the following command it doesn't work su - oracle -c "/oracle/product/102/db/bin/lsnrctl stop" Because I think there is a space is present between lsnrctl and... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear all , I have a script. this script called get.sh and can get some solaris infomation and save the result as result.tar.gz. the problem is : we have 12 servers. every time. I need to login 12 server and do the same job 12 times.:mad: master server ... (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have the following script : #!/bin/ksh #################### Function macAddressFinder ######################## macAddressFinder() { `ifconfig -a > ipInterfaces` `cat ipInterfaces` } ####################################################################### # # print... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm trying to write a script that in the end will from one central location hop to a bunch of servers and then run a series of ping tests. The thing is, the list of devices that needs to be pinged is going to be different for each server. So what I want to do is be able to do is read through the... (0 Replies)

9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

First, forgive me if this is a stupid questions that I should have asked in the non-expert forum. It seems like a hard questions to me. Is there a way to find the hardware model name from the command line on UNIX machines in general? I want to find out what kind of machines are running at a... (5 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have this script in server2 # cat /root/yesno.sh #!/bin/bash read -p "are you sure?" -n 1 -r if $ ]]; then echo "" echo "YES" else echo "NO" fi # sh /root/yesno.sh are you sure?y YES (5 Replies)