1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi In one of the thread I have found echo ${SHELL##*/} Can any of u pls let me know, what is the interpretation for ##* over here? Thanks. (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

hey, what's $$varname in a script? I used to see $varname only. search on google didn't help. thanks. (4 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Can you please tell me what this means? use grep to find from the file myfile.txt all lines containing the sequence tt but not more 2 ts? I have no idea. (2 Replies)

4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

:) Hi, In some script i got these regular expression like , n=$# and for i in $* can anybody let me know, what does it means (5 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all, 4 files are returned when i issue 'find . -mtime -1 -type f -ls'. ./ora_475244.aud ./ora_671958.aud ./ora_934052.aud ./ora_934050.aud However, when I issued the below command: tar -cvf test.tar `find . -mtime -1 -type f`, the tar file only contains the 1st file -... (2 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I can not find out what the %U means in the following command: ooffice -calc %U (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a script like select * from table !! what those exclamation marks mean (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have seen in some ksh script, that we are executing shell scripts inside other shell script as . variable.sh What is . here? Their is space between . and variabloe. And why we are not executing it like ./variable.sh? I know that . signifies current directory , but what its... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I have a tar file and inside that tar file is a folder with additional tar.gz files. What I want to do is look inside the first tar file and then find the second tar file I'm looking for, look inside that tar.gz file to find a certain directory. I'm encountering issues by trying to... (1 Reply)