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You can influence the backup suffix with.

Hello Raj,

I am on a Solaris on a AMD-
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OS Solaris 10 x86_64 (SunOS goldtpus34 5.10 Generic_144489-11I wanted to find whether it has a 32bit or 64 bit kernel so I did ...

On Solaris systems, check the section 1M coreadm man page (man 1M coreadm) (https://www.unix.com/man-page/opensolaris/1m/coreadm/). On Linux systems, check the section 5 core (man 5 core)...

Most has already been said, but:

`command` and $(command) does basically the same. It executes "command" and uses the output of this command to complete the command line. "command" could either be...

Spaces can visualize where the tokens end.
For example:
x=1; echo "$(( x + 1 ))"
echo "$( ls )"
echo "$(( $( wc -l </etc/passwd ) + 1 ))"All echo arguments are in "quotes", where $var and $( )...

You need to supply additional info on e.g. OS, shell, that you use. Assuming bash:
- the first expression will try to apply "arithmetic expansion" and assume command to be a variable and expand it...

In both bash and ksh you can have arrays with integer subscripts (and with recent bash and 1993 or later ksh, you can also use non-numeric strings as subscripts). For example:
$ for((i = 1; i <= 5;...

OK. Now I get it. You want tar to read your mind and magically devine what files in your archive you want to update.

Sorry, but tar doesn't work that way. The way it works is you tell tar:

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I suggest reading the man page of tar because all you need is there in plain sight.

Use "t" to list the names of the files in the tar archive, then feed this list to another call of tar as...

Hi, from man bash:


For example
$ var=foo
$ echo "1. $var"
1. foo
$ echo "2. ${var}"
2. foo
$ echo "3. $varbar"
3.
$ echo "4. ${var}bar"
4. foobar
$
$ set -- A B C D E F G H I J K L...

${PID} = content of variable PID
$PID = content of variable PID
`$PID` = result of executing the content of variable PID as a command
'$PID' = the literal string $PID

Only the first two can...

Hello Raj999,

Welcome to forum Raj, please use code tags as per forum rules for your commands/codes/Inputs used in your posts. Following is the link where you can go through from the forum rules....