1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Ok, here is my situation. I need to send/rec files to different outside sources. A developer working on this couldn't find a unix program to dial out so he is going to go with a 3rd party software on a NT box. eww So, this is what I'm looking for. I would have a modem on a sun/linux/hp box and... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a variable length file that needs to be reformatted to 80 byte reclen before I ftp it to a customer. What is the best way to do this? I tried using dd if=inputfile of=outputfile conv=noblock cbs=80, and it almost gives me what I need. The output file needs to be 80-byte records, and the last... (4 Replies)

3. Linux

say i have these many file in a directory named exam. 1)/exam/newfolder/link.txt. 2)/exam/newfolder1/ and i create a tar say exam.tar well the problem is, when i read the tar file i dont find any metadata about the directories,as you cannot create a tar containig empty directories. on the... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

In a bash script, I'm looking for a way to set each matching line of a file into its own variable, or variable array. As an example, i have a crontab file with several entries: 00 23 * * * /usr/local/bin/msqlupdate -all 00 11 * * * /usr/local/bin/msqlupdate -inc 00 03 * * *... (2 Replies)

5. Solaris

Hi , Could some one please share some docs or steps to set up solaris box as a local DNS . Thx (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Experts, In our project we have requirement where in we have to compare header of one file with header in the parameter file. There are 20 files which we ftp from one site. All this files have different header. We are comapring this file with our parameter file(which is having the header... (2 Replies)

7. AIX

Hi folks need some help here. We have a RS6000 running AIX. It is almost never used anymore, but we need to print off some data. I have a paralell printer conected to the parrallel port, but have no idea where to go from here. The printer was originall named named LP01. If the users telnetinto the... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I've been struggling with this one for quite a while and cannot seem to find a solution for this find/replace scenario. Perhaps I'm getting rusty. I have a file that contains a number of metrics (exactly 3 fields per line) from a few appliances that are collected in parallel. To identify the... (3 Replies)