what comand do I use to find usefull comands, common comands? or, where on www?
if noone knows, then what comand do I use to run a (bin)file? (3 Replies)
I am new to this unix thing. I have a macintosh with os X and want to learn how to use the unix terminal. What do I need to get started? Does anyone know some good command lines to get started with? Can I use the terminal to check email and get on the internet etc.....?:( (3 Replies)
I'm having trouble with the following commands
i. count the number of lines which end in a 4 letter word
grep '{4\}$' bfile <<seems to print out everything
abc abc abcd
joe joe john
bob bill
gregory greg
greg gregory
the grep command prints out the lines with 4 letter words and the... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I need to write a small script to search in some specific directories to check if any file is present with a unix command name...
Means if the directory contains any files like cat, vi, grep, find etc i need to list those files into a file.
Please help
Thanks,
D (6 Replies)
I m using the below command for finding a particular file using grep and then copy it.
But the the below command esp the cp is not working
find . -name "CurrentCollector*" -exec grep -l '300173680000D1A8' {} \; | xargs cp {} /ednpdtu7/u01/pipe/current_reprocess -
It's giving the particular... (5 Replies)
I am checking that a file is older than a reference file that I build with a touch command before processing it. If it is not old enough, I want to sleep for an hour and check again.
My problem is if it is old enough to process, I want to exit when I am done, but I cannot find a way to exit... (2 Replies)
Hi to everybody!!
I have a (simple) question but i am newbie with unix and so i need a little help...I am writing a bash script file and i want to put inside this:
i have this command " find /usr/bin -name bzip2 -print " that i want to put it in a "if" statement and when it returns true the... (6 Replies)
Hey everyone,
I need some help for some unix commands.
- List all processes in the file "ProcessUser.txt" sorted by the users and in the file "ProcessName.txt" sorted by the name of the process.
- How much time does the command "ls -alR /" need and compared to that, how much time is... (2 Replies)
I am writing a tcsh script that will open an already-running processs on a system, and give it a command. I want to have something similar to this: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/kill-process-in-linux-or-terminate-a-process-in-unix-or-linux-systems/
But I need to be able to find the process and... (5 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
wmanager
WMANAGER(1) BSD General Commands Manual WMANAGER(1)NAME
wmanager -- choose a window manager and launch it
SYNOPSIS
wmanager [OPTIONS ...]
DESCRIPTION
The wmanager program displays a choice of the window managers listed in the ~/.wmanagerrc file. When one is picked, the related command is
written to standard output, intended to be used by shell scripts. If the program is exited without choosing a window manager, ``-1'' is
written to standard output.
-fg COLOR
Set the foreground color.
-bg COLOR
Set the background color.
-bg2 COLOR
Set the widget background color
-di[splay] host:n.n
Set the X display.
-dn[d], -nod[nd]
Enable/disable drag & drop, probably does nothing.
-g[eometry] WxH+X+Y
Set the window size and location.
-i[conic]
Start as iconified.
-k[bd], -nok[bd]
Enable/disable keyboard support.
-na[me] CLASSNAME
Set the X window class.
-s[cheme] SCHEME
Unknown, probably does nothing useful.
-ti[tle] WINDOWTITLE
Set the window title.
-to[oltips], -not[ooltips]
Enable/disable tooltips, probably does nothing.
EXAMPLE
To start using wmanager, create a ~/.wmanagerrc file - generally with wmanagerrc-update(1) - and add something like the following at the end
of your ~/.xsession file:
WM="$(wmanager -geometry +570+585)"
...
exec $WM
See also wmanager-loop(1) for a nicer way to start wmanager.
SEE ALSO wmanager(1), wmanager-loop(1), wmanagerrc-update(1), X(7x)HISTORY
The wmanager program was written by Meik Tessmer in 1999. This manual page was originally written in perldoc format by Tommi Virtanen in
2000, and converted to mdoc format by Peter Pentchev in 2008.
AUTHORS
The wmanager program - Meik Tessmer <fuller@daemogorgon.net>.
The manual page - Tommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org> and Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>.
BSD May 22, 2008 BSD