1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, Simple question. How do I convert a unix text file to a dos text file? Thanks Helen (4 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I know the Sun Solaries versions are ( 2.3 , 2.4 , 2.5 ... 7 , 8 ) . But some times I see sun os v5.x what does it mean ?? also what is the last new machine for sun and what are its details specifications . Thanks (3 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello Again, Ok guys. Thanks again for your help last time but I am in need of your experience again. I wrote this script: #!/bin/sh # List either files or directories in individual accounts # using 1, 2 or 3 with invalid case $1 in echo select 1 to see the FILES in your... (3 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

this is the simple question, please help me! the question is: how to send exactly 50 ICMP Echo request packets with 500 bytes of payload to 202.139.129.221? I tried to use ping -F 500 202.139.129.221, but it didn't work. Thanks! (6 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am trying to check through all of a certain type of file in all main directories, and find the top 10 that are taking up the most space. How can I do that? I was thinking like du *.file | sort -n | head (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Ive got some output in a file that looks exactly like this: 1 ----------- 1542 1 record(s) selected. How do I just extract that 1542 and drop it into another file or (preferrably) a variable (using a ksh script) (9 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a file name in this format ABC_WIRE_TRANS_YYYYMMDD_00.DAT I need to cut out the _00 out of the file name everytime. It could be _00, _01,_02, etc .... How do I cut it out to look as follows? ABC_WIRE_TRANS_YYYYMMDD.DAT (6 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi everybody: Could anybody tell me if I have several files which each one it has this pattern name: name1.dat name2.dat name3.dat name4.dat name10.dat name11.dat name30.dat If I would like create one like: name_total.dat If I do: paste name*.dat > name_total.dat (15 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am having problems getting a list of filenames that I want from a directory. example: I have 3 files - filename.xxx.20110505.123030 filename.yyy.20110505.123030 filename.zzz.20110505.123030 There may be multiple xxx,... (3 Replies)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

This seems like an easy question, but I can't find an answer already posted. I want a command to return all of the lines in a file containing exactly a string I tried grep -x "372701" x.txt but this did not return anything I am just trying to search a file for lines which contain... (4 Replies)