1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All: An elementary Unix Question, How can i set the display number and run a program in that display. If i type the name of the executable the program opens in the console(display number 0), however, i want it to open in another display number. How can i do that. Appreciate the help... (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi pros, Could anyone tell me the actual difference between setting the positional parameters from the variable using the following commands? $ var="This is my question" $ set $var $ echo $1 --> 'This' $ echo $2 --> 'is' .... .... and $ var="This is my question" $ set --... (3 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

We need to su to root in 1000 systems, so it is almost impossible to add "stty erase ^H" to every .profile on these systems. Is there any way to set delete key to erase automatically after running "su -"? Thanks :) (4 Replies)

4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, In our bank production environment - IBM AIX 5.3, we have a particular parent folder inside which an application creates temporary folders & files. These temp folders exist for the lifetime of the user session within the application and then get deleted automatically. Since these temp... (1 Reply)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Experts, I'm having issue in assigning var with special character , please see below for complete details. $ echo $SHELL /bin/csh $ cat bp abd/asd/a $ awk -F "/" '{print $NF}' bp | awk '{print $1}' a $ set a=`awk -F "/" '{print $NF}' bp | awk '{print $1}'` $ echo $a ... (15 Replies)

6. Solaris

How do I set up my solaris 10 machine to display in text mode instead of graphics mode, permanently? (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Friends, Actually in an linux server , there was printer jobs files occupying more space in /var/spool/cups so i want a script for deleting the files once in two week since i need the latest two weeks files. Thanks in advance..Waiting for the script. (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

i try to find way to make string concatenation in csh ( sorry this is what i have ) so i found out i can't do : set string_buff = "" foreach line("`cat $source_dir/$f`") $string_buff = string_buff $line end how can i do string concatenation? (1 Reply)

9. Solaris

Hi, When i invoke DBCA as oracle user , i get following usircd01:KAM:/opt/oracle10/product/10.2.0/bin>./dbca DISPLAY not set. Set DISPLAY environment variable, then re-run. usircd01:KAM:/opt/oracle10/product/10.2.0/bin>echo $ORACLE_SID CCE ... (6 Replies)