What is the & for in Unix?? say for example that you have a line in a shellscript that will startup a executable and you have the ampersand at the end of the line, what is it for??
any info you could spare would be much appreciated
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In my program, I'm using argc and argv to accept command line arguments. However, if I have to get the '&' to work i.e. make it run the child as a background process, do I have to write some special code in C or does Unix handle it automatically? If I have to add the special code, how does it look... (2 Replies)
Hi
I am trying to send mail to an email id having ampersand in it.
Like abc.&.xyz@abc.com
But it is not being sent.
I also tried prefixing backslash before and after ampersand
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Please explain the usage of ampersand in the following command
who & echo "Total number of users are `who|wc -l`"
What I understand is that ampersand is used to run some process in the background. And, what I am expecting from this command is
"Output of who should be displayed on the... (2 Replies)
In the terminal, using the ampersand allows the process to run in the background--Emacs, for example. But is there a way to automatically open Emacs as a background process so I can still use the command line? Typing the ampersand is just annoying to me, and I keep forgetting; it's just too useful... (0 Replies)
Hi, for my own interest I want to scrape a lot of data off the Maple Story game rankings page.
The problem is, when I want to get the data at this page
maplestory(dot)nexon(dot)net/Rankings/OverallRanking.aspx?type=overall&s=&world=0&job=0&pageIndex=6
It gives me the data at this page
... (3 Replies)
Gurus,
Thanks so much for your help, in advance.
I'm using ksh and outputting a literal string value to an output file, however, Unix isn't playing by SQL's rules. The ampersand character which I'm trying to disply as a knowledge base link is screwing up the output. Typically, the "&&" is... (1 Reply)
I want to add the character "<" to the end of each line of input using the & function in SED.
Something like:
sed 's/.*/&\</'
It's important to use the &, not another method, because I want to know what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks (5 Replies)
Hello everybody,
I have a Problem with sed command.
I want to replace a defined string with a string from a database field (dynamic).
e.g.
sed -i -e 's/%NAME%/'"$HNAME"'/g'
The Problem is that the $HNAME variable can contain Special characters like '&'
e.g.
HNAME="AH Kruger & Co. KG"
... (1 Reply)
For years I have spawned shell scripts with nohup and ampersand and they run whether or not I stay logged in. Recently a client told us that we had to set a keep alive timeout on all of our Redhat 7.6 Linux servers. Our sysadmin set the following parameters in the sshd_config file on all of our... (10 Replies)
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docbook2gjots
DOCBOOK2GJOTS(1) General Commands Manual DOCBOOK2GJOTS(1)NAME
docbook2gjots - Convert a DOCBOOK file to gjots format (on stdout)
SYNOPSIS
docbook2gjots [ DOCBOOK-file ]
DESCRIPTION
docbook2gjots converts a DOCBOOK XML file into gjots format.
docbook2gjots uses gawk(1) to perform the conversion.
<preface>, <chapter>, <section>, <sect1>, <sect2>, <sect3> and <sect4> tags are used to define NewEntry and NewFolder boundaries. They
should definitely have <title> tags.
This is a quick and dirty hack using gawk(1) and does no formal checking of XML or SGML syntax nor does it validate against the DOCBOOK
DTD. Consequently, if the syntax of the file is broken the conversion will probably fail.
It is intended that a round-trip can be made so that gjots(1) can be used as a tool at all stages of DOCBOOK production - mainly as an out-
line processor to help the author organise and order the work. A document may well start its life in gjots(1) as the initial thoughts are
marshalled. As the document forms up, it can be converted to DOCBOOK with the following command which automatically adds tags such as
<?xml...>, <para> etc:
gjots2docbook -b file.gjots >file.xml
docbook2pdf file.xml
Or, starting with an existing DOCBOOK file:
docbook2gjots file.xml >file.gjots
In the latter case, the document will already have a lot of DOCBOOK tags so to convert back to docbook, add the -e and -p options:
gjots2docbook -b -p -e file.gjots >file.xml
docbook2pdf file.xml
AUTHOR
Written by Bob Hepple <bhepple@freeshell.org>
http://bhepple.freeshell.org/gjots
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2002 Robert Hepple
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PAR-
TICULAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO gjots(1), gjots2html(1), gjots2docbook(1)DOCBOOK2GJOTS(1)