Well it's been a long time since I have used any OS besides apples and windows (raising my son). My principal would like our teachers to use UNIX as their mail system. That's not a problem, the mail system is like riding a bike you never forget. Here's my problem. She wants me to write a script... (2 Replies)
hi, I know we can do this; but dont know how..
I open a file using vim..browse thru it and then say :wq after reaching some line;
The next time I open the same file, I want vim to position the cursor on the line where I left last time;
anyone? (2 Replies)
I have a simple script. I have tried this in Bourne, Korn and C shells in my AIX ...no luck
unset STARTQUEUE
# Check parameters
if
then
echo "*E* Batch Queue parameter is missing"
else
$BATCHQ/bin/setup.sh
STARTQUEUE=$1
# If the queue doesn't exist, create it
... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: KenL
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Hi All,
Have only recently returned to Unix.com due to other activities (*oh the shame of it all).
Anyways, when I initially came back to redesigned/revamped site I couldn't remember any of my logins. I'd originally thought that I'd used the UID of 'Cameron' but couldn't remember any details... (2 Replies)
Hello dear community!
I have the following task to accomplish: there is a directory with approximately 2 thousand files. I have to write a script which would randomly extract 200 files on the first run. On the second run it should extract again 200 files but that files mustn't intersect with... (5 Replies)
I have a master list of hosts, and a list of bad hosts. I want to filter out the bad hosts from the master list. I was trying a few for loops but it's not providing the desired result:
for i in $(cat master_host_list);do grep -iv $i bad_host_list;done | sort | uniq
# won't work because it... (5 Replies)
It showed a cleaning woman (probably in the evening, after most of the other employees had left work) happily typing commands on a dot matrix terminal (could've been a DEC LA120, IIRC) just because "unix is so easy to use, even a cleaning woman can use it!".
If you know where to find a scanned... (2 Replies)
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Howdy,
I clicked the rememberer me when I log in, and evidently I really do not understand what that means. I had hoped that at least it would remember my user name for the next time that I log in. However, when I log out, I see a message about cookies being removed and one other thing that I... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I'm new to UNIX world and new to this forum. As I observed there are lot of commands that needs to be remembered in UNIX programming. I'm into DevOps and can anyone please tell me what are all the important commands that are useful for DevOps Engineer.
NOTE: Please correct me if my... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: maxlink
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
date
DATE(1) General Commands Manual DATE(1)NAME
date - print or set the date and time
SYNOPSIS
date [-qsu] [[MMDDYY]hhmm[ss]] [+format]
OPTIONS -q Read the date from stdin
-s Set the time (implicit for -q or a date string)
-u Print the date as GMT
-t Use this number of seconds instead of current time
EXAMPLES
date # Print the date and time
date 0221921610 # Set date to Feb 21, 1992 at 4:10 p.m.
DESCRIPTION
With the -q flag or a numeric argument, date sets the GMT time and date. MMDDYY refers to the month, day, and year; hhmmss refers to the
hour, minute and second. Each of the six fields must be exactly two digits, no more and no less. date always display the date and time,
with the default format for the system. The -u flag request GMT time instead of local time. A format may be specified with a + followed
by a printf-like string with the following options:
%% % character
%A Name of the day
%B Name of the month
%D mm/dd/yy
%H Decimal hour on 2 digits
%I Decimal hour modulo 12 on 2 digits
%M Decimal minute on 2 digits
%S Decimal seconds on 2 digits
%T HH:MM:SS
%U Decimal week number, Sunday being first day of week
%W Decimal week number, Monday being first day of week
%X Same as %T
%Y Decimal year on 4 digits
%Z Time Zone (if any)
%a Abbreviated name of the day
%b Abbreviated name of the month
%c Appropriate date & time (default format)
%d Decimal day of the month on 2 digits
%e Same as %d, but a space replaces leading 0
%h Same as %b
%j Decimal dey of the year on 3 digits
%m Decimal month on 2 digits
%n Newline character
%p AM or PM
%r 12-hour clock time with AM/PM
%s Number of seconds since the epoch
%t Tab character
%w Decimal day of the week (0=Sunday)
%x Same as %D
%y Decimal year on 2 digits
SEE ALSO time(2), ctime(3), readclock(8).
DATE(1)