1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hiya I am fairly new to UNIX and have been asked to write some scripts.... I am working in the korn shell. What I am trying to do is to go through a delimited file: Testingline1;test;test Testingline2;test;test and place the lines into an Array so: Array = Testingline1;test;test Array... (4 Replies)

2. Solaris

Hi all, I need to place a custom configuration file for a script/program that will likely be sitting in /usr/sbin, but I am unsure of exactly where to place it. In RHEL was told the config file should be in /etc/sysconfig, but no such directory exists in Solaris. Will my config file simply sit... (5 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello - I am running Linux. I want to place a comment char at the beginning of a line in a file. For example: testvar=`grep username /etc/people sed -e 's/$testvar/#$testvar/g' /etc/people I cannot get the above commands to put a comment at the beginning of the line. Any... (3 Replies)

4. Solaris

I am not able to connect Solaris 10 through X Manager from Windows machine. I found the below errors in Solaris 10 , can anybody check the errors and please help me. Property 'name' of instance svc:/application/x11/xvnc-inetd:default is missing, inconsistent or invalid Property... (2 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

howdy. can you place mplayer windows on the screen anywhere? i would like to open four movie files from command line and make them show up on screen like this ----- ----- | 1 | | 2 | ----- ----- | 3 | | 4 | ----- ----- hopefully my ascii representation makes some sense. and i would... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a small requriement to change a part of string in a sentence starting with "ho". For E.g I am having the following statements: I want to go to home,beach. I will never go to that horrible,place. Now I want to replace the string starting with "ho" in the above 2... (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I need help in putting duplicate lines within a section into another file. Here is what I'm struggling with: Using this file “data.txt”: ABC1 012345 header ABC2 7890-000 ABC3 012345 Header Table ABC4 ABC5 593.0000 587.4800 ABC5 593.5000 587.6580 <= dup need to remove ABC5... (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello Friends, My bash script is like this #!/bin/bash # request Bourne shell as shell for job #$ -S /bin/bash # assume current working directory as paths #$ -cwd #$ -N rsync-copy # # print date and time date rsync -rltD --progress "ssh -i /home/myname/.ssh/id_rsa"... (4 Replies)