1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I would like to substitute a phrase which contains square brackets. change TO how? Thanks (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

All, I want to run a non-root script as the root user with non-root environment variables with crontab. The non-root user would have environment variables for database access such as Oracle or Sybase. The root user does not have the Oracle or Sybase enviroment variables. I thought you could do... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I just stumbled on to these forums today, and I relatively new to unix. I am trying to figure out how to find the square root of a number using a shell script. I am using bash and I have searched and searched but cannot figure out square roots. Hopefully someone can point me in the right... (3 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am just starting out with bash scripting. I tried a simple script to find the area of a square and it didnt run. #!/bin/bash #script to find area of a square based on user input if then echo " Usage -$0 x " echo " where x is the dimension of the square " exit 1 n1=$1 ... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I'm trying to create a shell script (#!/bin/sh) which should tell me the age of a file in minutes... I have a process, which delivers me all 15 minutes a new file and I want to have a monitoring script, which sends me an email, if the present file is older than 20 minutes. To do... (10 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have a text file which looks like this: computer programming systems engineering I want to get rid of these square brackets and also the text that is inside these brackets. So that my final text file looks like this: computer programming systems engineering I am using... (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a file with say 50 columns, each containing a whole lot of data. Each column contains data from a separate simulation, but each simulation is related to the data in the last (REFERENCE) column $50 I need to calculate the RMS deviation for each data line, i.e. column 1 relative to... (12 Replies)

8. Solaris

Hi All After downloading ZFS documentation from oracle site, I am able to successfully migrate UFS root FS without zones to ZFS root FS. But in case of UFS root file system with zones , I am successfully able to migrate global zone to zfs root file system but zone are still in UFS root file... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

For example, I have files called A.txt and B.txt. A.txt #x yj 1 1 2 4 3 9 4 16 5 25 6 36 7 49 8 64 9 81 10 100B.txt #x ^yj 1 1 2 8 3 27 4 64 5 125 6 216 (2 Replies)

10. What is on Your Mind?

Hi all, (mainly Neo)... I keep noticing that the SQRT code I wrote recently for a POSIX shell keeps appearing, (the green colour sticks out like a sore thumb). So I decided to take a look on Google. Guess what? UNIX.COM comes first in Google's listing just from two words, see image... (2 Replies)