02-05-2018
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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
this might be a basic question...
why is that wc -c counts 1 more per line than what is there.
for example,
> cat dum1.txt
123
12
> wc -c dum1.txt
7 dum1.txt
Thanks,
Sameer. (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ensameer
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am no Unix administrator...I live in windows land.
I wrote a script to find files of certain names and process them but was later advised to avoid checking sparse files since it would use up a lot of resources and the files I was looking for were not there.
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am looking to a solution to the following problem. I have a very large file that looks something like this:
Each group of three numbers on each line are three probabilities that sum to one.
I want to output the maximum for each group of three. So desired output would be:
or... (6 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have any XML ouput file(file name TABLE.xml), where the data is loaded in A SINGLE LINE, I need help in writting a ksh shell script which gives me the word counts of word <TABLE-ROW>
This is my input file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!--Generated by Ascential Software... (4 Replies)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
I want to put a check in my script to check if the same instance is already running and not finished and if not then does not allow it to run! in which part of my script I should put this? and any idea how I should write it? tx (4 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a script which has the below line:
ps -ef | grep ${SCRIPT_NAME} | grep ksh | grep -v grep >> /tmp/instance.tmp
When the script is invoked through CRON, I get 2 lines in instance.tmp when actually only one instance is running:
cdrd 17790 17789 0 15:14:01 ? 0:00 /bin/ksh... (8 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
In bash shell, how we can avoid the commands getting recorded in history file.
One way i can think of is :
export HISTSIZE=0
Is there any other way to achieve this?
Thanks (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: pandeesh
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
under past circumstances, id be fine running commands like this:
case 1:
printf '%s\n' "${MASSIVETEXT}" | egrep "i am on the first line"
case 2:
vprintf '%s\n' "${MASSIVETEXT}" | egrep -v "i am on the first line"
This works fine. Bit it calls external utility "egrep" and "printf". ... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: SkySmart
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Gurus,
I need to remove duplicate line in file and update TRAILER (last line) record count. the file is comma delimited, field 2 is key to identify duplicated record.
I can use below command to remove duplicated. but don't know how to replace last line 2nd field to new count.
awk -F","... (11 Replies)
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pam_lastlog
PAM_LASTLOG(8) Linux-PAM Manual PAM_LASTLOG(8)
NAME
pam_lastlog - PAM module to display date of last login
SYNOPSIS
pam_lastlog.so [debug] [silent] [never] [nodate] [nohost] [noterm] [nowtmp] [noupdate] [showfailed]
DESCRIPTION
pam_lastlog is a PAM module to display a line of information about the last login of the user. In addition, the module maintains the
/var/log/lastlog file.
Some applications may perform this function themselves. In such cases, this module is not necessary.
OPTIONS
debug
Print debug information.
silent
Don't inform the user about any previous login, just update the /var/log/lastlog file.
never
If the /var/log/lastlog file does not contain any old entries for the user, indicate that the user has never previously logged in with
a welcome message.
nodate
Don't display the date of the last login.
noterm
Don't display the terminal name on which the last login was attempted.
nohost
Don't indicate from which host the last login was attempted.
nowtmp
Don't update the wtmp entry.
noupdate
Don't update any file.
showfailed
Display number of failed login attempts and the date of the last failed attempt from btmp. The date is not displayed when nodate is
specified.
MODULE TYPES PROVIDED
Only the session module type is provided.
RETURN VALUES
PAM_SUCCESS
Everything was successful.
PAM_SERVICE_ERR
Internal service module error.
PAM_USER_UNKNOWN
User not known.
EXAMPLES
Add the following line to /etc/pam.d/login to display the last login time of an user:
session required pam_lastlog.so nowtmp
FILES
/var/log/lastlog
Lastlog logging file
SEE ALSO
pam.conf(5), pam.d(5), pam(8)
AUTHOR
pam_lastlog was written by Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>.
Linux-PAM Manual 04/01/2010 PAM_LASTLOG(8)