1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am looking for the best way to move files into a directory (ie PDF_files), if the directory doesn't exist to create it. However I am passing the full filename (psfile) of the file so I will have to remove the filename from the end, which can be at different field end lengths. This is a... (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi, I have to ftp previous days file from a directory to another location. The name of the files are like "xxx20060225" (yyyymmdd format) "xxx20060226" ls -lrt xxx*| tail -2| head -1 will give me the file, but if i could get anything... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I read man page for etc/shadow field.. on the 8th field, i assume that's the field to change account expire date. my question is: What value does the 8th field keep? i assume it's 13514 instead of "Date" value such as 11/10/08. on the man page, it said: " expire value = 13514 = jan 1,... (11 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

this obviously isnt overly important, but its a bit slow and i was wondering if i could prevent it from re-searching the file several times. i want my matches from the previous and coming three days, as well as today. this is what i have but its weighty and im having trouble finding a way to slim... (6 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello everyone, My question is quite simple, even if I didn't find an answer. I would want a command (maybe clear with some options ?) that can do the following : clear completely the console, as it is when we start a console for the first time. My problem is that I sometimes display a lot... (5 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

What are the career options in unix apart from unix system administration? (2 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all, What am trying do is search for a directory that is owned by cm that only exists in a path that has a particular directory ex: what I'm using now is find . -user cm -name '*.rel' -type d -exec ls -dl {} \; This is giving me stuff like this ./../../foo1/../../*.rel... (2 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

New to the unix experience and sure love it. I do all my big sql queries using unix sas, it's great, can't complain. Also have isql on the box to work with Sybase db's if need be. Just wondering if there's any large-amt-of-data-folks round here that might suggest some other sql/data tools... (2 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Guys I'm new to the forums and Unix. I have my first assignment for school and i'm stuck on question 1 spent close to 4 hours on it :(. (doesn't look good). I looked the the online documentation of ls but don't really understand it yet. I need to find files whose names that are of length... (1 Reply)