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1. What is on Your Mind?
Firstly I'm learning shell scripting and I came across this example in Classic Shell Scripting
dirpath=`eval echo '${'"$envvar"'}' 2>/dev/null | tr : ' ' `
And I immediately became perplexed as to how $envvar gets expanded in between the surrounding single quotes, until 20 minutes later i... (2 Replies)
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi everyone !
I have a file wich look like this :
>Sis01
> Sis02
...
>Sis44
I want to separe each paragraphe in a different file, so I decide to use the "FOR" loop + sed.
for f in {01..44}
do (5 Replies)
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3. Homework & Coursework Questions
1.) I am to write scripts that will be phasetest folder in the home directory.
2.) The folder should have a set-up,phase and display files
I have written a small script which i used to check for the existing users and their password.
What I need help with:
I have a set of questions in a... (19 Replies)
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I just began learning how to use Unix, so forgive my stupidity. I know this is answered somewhere but it's pretty specific and probably easily answered.
When I use some commands (particularly recently, the grep command) my terminal seems to freeze up. It switches out of bash mode and into the... (2 Replies)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
fedora core 2 xx8. 5xx version (not sure! not sure how to look it up either..(except on boot sorry!!))..
:( the linux version I started on last year was an old redhet 6.0 version with only text mode.. back then for some reason I knew I how to get rid of whole directories without a) going through... (6 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I need to convert a Unix file to a 'Dos' file. Ie if I look at the converted file in 'vi' on Unix it will have '^M' at the end of each line.
Hopefully it won't be a case of reading each line in turn and adding a \n. I've heard there is some sort of unix2dos command but it is not recognised on... (2 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I Know this is a really stupid question but if you can please expalin me.
I know how to compile a file in unix whith c++ but i dont know how to execute it.
I was expectin something like in windows that there will be created a *.rpm file or somethin like that (like *.exe in windows)
....
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am trying to tar file to a local tape drive using tar cf /dev/rmt/0cn ./directory
The process appears to run and I can see activity on the tape drive, but, then I use tar t /dev/rmt/0cn but I do not see anything there.
I am running Solaris 8 on a 420R. (5 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am interested in installing a Unix operating system onto my PC. I was wondering which system would be the best for a total newbie and also how much knowledge of programming languages do I need to get decent results with a Unix system?
I really am starting from scratch so please help all that you... (1 Reply)
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