Hi,
I am getting different output for grep depending which directory I am in.
The following is a transcript of my session, I am using egrep but have also used grep -E. The directory names have been changed for security:
$pwd
/dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4
$echo 000000 |egrep -v
$echo $?
1
$cd ..... (10 Replies)
Hello. I have an AIX machine at 6100-00.
We had some strange activity since filling up /tmp. One symptom is that who -r displays no output. It doesn't hang just no output is displayed.
We are going to boot the machine, but prior to that I'd like to dig a bit to see what may be causing the... (0 Replies)
hey, I'm trying to create the command that will create a file named user.txt that contains the output of the command cut -d: -f1,5 /etc/passwd, and displays itself afterwards.
I don't know how to bridge cat > user.txt with cut -d: -f1,5 /etc/passwd, or how display it afterwards. Any help would... (2 Replies)
I had a similar script in solaris and it had no problem. I wrote this one in freeBSD and it gave me strange output. Can anyone please tell me why? thanks a lot
#!/bin/sh
#This is a shell script that checks file system capacity mounted on /home directory
#If file system is over 90% capacity,... (1 Reply)
hi, in solaris 10 SUN SPARC V245 server the following df -h output is showing . can i reuse the following disk space by deleting them
/platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr/libc_psr_hwcap1.so.1
20G 5.2G 14G 27% /platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr.so.1... (2 Replies)
when i use ls command it works normal but when i using additional parameter with ls like ls -l , ls -a... it shows a error followed by the output.
# ls -l
./hgfs: Operation not applicable
total 12861
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 1 21:12 1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root ... (4 Replies)
Can someone please explain why I get two outputs with the du command? The first one gave me one. I also didn't ask for the second directory so why did it give that directory?
$ du -h "/media/Part 1/Desktop/playlist"
775M /media/Part 1/Desktop/playlist
$ du -h "/media/Part... (1 Reply)
Can someone please explain this to me?
auser:x:500:500:Anne User:/home/auser:/bin/sh
buser:x:501:501:Bob User:/home/buser:/bin/bash
I'm used to it looking like this. What is the difference between the first name and second name? In the first case I had to use the first name to change my... (3 Replies)
Hi,
Kindly help me to understand the behavior or logic of the below shell command
$ echo $!#
echo $echo $
$
$ echo !$#
echo $#
0
I am using GNU bash, version 3.2.25(1)-release (2 Replies)
Hello there,
I'm using a read-while loop to preserve the word Failed within a text file. For example, if the word Failed exist twice in a single text file, my STDOUT should re-direct to a new text file and display Failed twice.
My output is attached to this thread. I would like output to... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: SysAdminRialto
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