Hi,
I am newbie in unix and just started learning it. I want to know what is the difference between an executable file and a file (say text file). How to create executable file? What is the extension for that? How to differentiate ? How does it get executed?
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please help me figure out how to do this
I wont lie, this is for a homework problem and I have searched on google for a long time and still can't figure out what to do.
here is the problem
So there's a folder let's say called "bare"
in it, there are 10 dirs with names from "part1" through... (2 Replies)
Basically I have a shell script and i want to search the computer for a folder and if that folder exists i want to take some action. Not sure exactly how to do this most efficiently.
Not very experienced....any help would be appreciated. (1 Reply)
Hello everyone,
Just started UNIX today! In our school we use solaris. I just want to know how do I setup Solaris 10 not the GUI one, the one where you have to type the commands like ECHO, ls, pwd, etc... I have windows xp and I also have vmware.
I hope I am not missing anything! :p (4 Replies)
Hello everyone,
I am having to do a lot of perl scripting these days and I am learning a lot.
I have this problem
I want to move files from a folder and all its sub folders to one parent folder, they are all .gz files..
there is folder1\folder2\*.gz
and there are about 50 folders... (1 Reply)
Hi
I have a perl script that prints all the video and audio file information(playing duration).
It works fine in one of my friends linux laptop.
But it doesn't work in my both windows and linux.
My friend told me I have to do install some module ( ppm instal ...... )
but I have no... (1 Reply)
Hey all,
I'm brand new to script writing, I'm wanting to make a script that will ask for a file and then retrieve that file if it exists, and if it doesn't exist, create the file with the desired name, and I'm completely stuck.. so far..
#! bin/bash
echo "Enter desired file"
read "$file"
if ... (5 Replies)
Hi
I'm just messing around with bash and trying to learn it because I have a course next semester dealing with OS design where we need to know how to use SSH client and either bash or ksh. I've never done shell scripting before.
I just started today and I was wondering how parsing files... (1 Reply)
Hello guys,
I am a newbie to all of this - I'd like some help with a file I have. It's a ~100mb CSV file with approximately 30 columns.
What I'd like to do is to search through the file and REMOVE any lines with a certain case insensitive string in any of the columns:
So my file looks... (4 Replies)