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If you absolutely need it, you will have to install gcc and make. Don't install perl into its old directories. See update perl from 5.14.2 (ubuntu 12.04 default version) to 5.18...

Yes you can if you want to try a reboot.

If a straight boot still doesn't work you will need to boot from cd into single user again and carry on from where you left off.

Let's say you have installed perl 5.10 in /path/to/perl510 and the perl binary is /path/to/perl510/bin/perl

Your existing perl would be /usr/bin/perl right?

So you may mv /usr/bin/perl...

Can you show what you get when you try this series of commands

#does this command at least show spool as a directory and run as a directory?
ls -lad /var
# if it does try
cd /var/spool
#...

Well, try to find the files its complaining about.

Generally you don't do that kind of test in a crontab file, the test should be inside the script itself.

However, assume you want to see if the host name is foo, ignore the first part of the...

I don't think you're really looking at the code.

while read ID
do
[ -f "/photos/${ID}.jpg" ] && echo "/photos/${ID}.jpg"
[ -f "/photos/thumbnail/${ID}-tn.jpg" ] && echo...

For the input you listed, the following should work:
grep -c -e "^/dir_a/[^/]*$" file
grep -c -e "^/dir_a/dir_b/[^/]*$" file

grep '^/dir_a/[^/]*$'

Regards,
Alister

Odd. I think that's supposed to be valid syntax, but Solaris does have a really old and noncompliant shell...

Try putting the ! inside the [ ]

if [ ! -f $LIST ]

Yes that is correct, the awk command is just to produce a list of what was removed by the xargs command run earlier.

Unfortunately your rm doesn’t support -v (verbose), so the best way to get a...