1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Ok what is BSD exactly? I know its a type of open source but what is it exactly? (1 Reply)

2. Programming

Hello. I'm a complete newbie to C programming. I have a C program that wasn't written by me where I need to write some wrappers around it to automate and make it easier for a client to use. The problem is that the program accepts standard input to control the program... I'm hoping to find a simple... (6 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi... I have a requrement to compare two files. for e.g. File 1 2007/08/19 09:48:10 DH-032 $APTA1: Device AATD8029 2007/08/19 09:48:10 DH-045 $APTA1: Device AATD8029 2007/08/19 09:48:10 DH-043 $APTA1: Device AATD8029 File 2 2007-08-19 09:48:10 DH-032... (1 Reply)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Friends, How to check a variable value is either charecter or number? With Regards / Ganapati (1 Reply)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

script outputting cant find anything wrong with the script either... : #!/bin/sh #count execution script time=0 while do if then time=`expr $time + 1` if then echo "The current tick is 100" fi fi (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi all here is a very simple question.. i want to count the number of columns using awk..my file looks like this: 1,2 1,2 1,2 1,2 1,2 1,2 1,2 1,2 i want to count number of columns and i so far i have: awk 'BEGIN {IFS=","} END {print NF}' data > data1 i am getting 1... (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I am new to shell scripting and I need your help. I have found similar scripts in the forum but I need further assistance. I am building a script to use hourly in cron to mailx me if the number of files in a path is less than e.g 100 I have started with the following: #!/bin/sh... (2 Replies)

8. Red Hat

Cheers! In /etc/syslog.conf, if an error type is not specified, is it logged anywhere (most preferable is it logged to /var/log/messages) or not? To be more precise I am interested in error and critical level messages. At default these errors are not specified in syslog.conf, and I need to... (6 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to remove lines in a variable(nidlist) that exceed a certain charecter count(in this case 7). I am trying to incorparate the function that removes the lines that exceed 7 into this piece of code nidlist=$(print $nidlist |tr ';' '\n' | sort | uniq | tr '\n' ';') Thank... (4 Replies)

10. Programming

So my program is not working and I keep changing it to figure out why. So I have two questions, can I do tracing similar to bash, and also what is wrong with this. The idea is simple, I want to count "word" lengths, with the loose definition of word not being a space, tab, or newline. Here is... (11 Replies)