1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I'm trying to find information to help me switch to UNIX os from Windows98. Is this where I should be? If so, can someone get me started? I have a Compaq Presario 5030 with a USR 56k modem and other peripherials. Sound card is integrated onto the motherboard (I think). So, I need drivers, etc. Any... (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi everybody... I'm trying to run some very simple cgi scripts on my server whilst I learn perl. Today is day 3 of that process, so I apologize in advance for not having enough knowledge to ask the right questions. Any program I try to execute gives me an Internal Server Error (500) message.... (4 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Basically i am not looking for you guys to write the script for me but help me understand how to write it and point me in the write direction. I can see what i want to do, just having trouble putting it into shell. I have a file Blah.txt with 400 DN's in it. I need to modify two attributes... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi everyone... i'm starting to learn kshell scripting... my first task is to write a script that would execute some mysql statements to query some data, to transfer it into a file for record basis... Anyone has any samples to share? or perhaps some tips here and there? Thanks in advance...... (2 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Ok, another fun hiccup in my UNIX learning curve. I am trying to count the number of occurrences of an IP address across multiple files named example.hits. I can extract the number of occurrences from the files individually but when you use grep -c with multiple files you get the output similar to... (5 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all ! I'm trying to write a shell script (bash) to ftp a file starting with particular name like "Latest_" that is present on a Windows box to UNIX server. Basically I want to set this script in the cron so that daily the new build that is posted on the Windows box can be downloaded to the... (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Good afternoon! Im new at scripting and Im trying to write a script to calculate total space, total used space and total free space in filesystem names matching a keyword (in this one we will use keyword virginia). Please dont be mean or harsh, like I said Im new and trying my best. Scripting... (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to get folder names that contain only numbers. Can someone explain why following command is printing 'total 450' as part of output.. $> ls -lt | awk '$9 ~ /^*$/' | more total 450 drwxr-x--x 3 user1 group1 512 Mar 9 2008 329227163 drwxr-x--x 3 user1 group1 ... (17 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Team, Presently I have a script, which i have set up cron on one of my Jump-boxes,and gives me the output on every hourly basis,fetching the data from the remote machine.Basically it gives me the list of all active users logged and its count once we execute the script.Here the count is... (6 Replies)