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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
I'm curious to know how do I add an empty log file (test1.log) to an existing text file to monitor all the changes made to a.txt.
Is this expression
export PATH=$PATH:/home/test1.log
right to be added to the text file a.txt? (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: TestKing
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2. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hello,
I am creating a file with all the source folders included in my git branch, when i grep for the used source, i found source included as relative path instead of absolute path, how can convert relative path to absolute path without changing directory to that folder and using readlink -f ? ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Sekhar419
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3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Currently I am using this laborious command
lvdisplay | awk '/LV Path/ {p=$3} /LV Name/ {n=$3} /VG Name/ {v=$3} /Block device/ {d=$3; sub(".*:", "/dev/dm-", d); printf "%s\t%s\t%s\n", p, "/dev/mapper/"v"-"n, d}'
Would like to know if there is any shorter method to get this mapping of... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: royalibrahim
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4. OS X (Apple)
Hello,
Glad I found this forum....
Well I'm starting using UNIX tools in macOS for bioinformatics (Python....).
I know that in UNIX every installed tools go to usr/bin.... But since in mac I do not have access to it I wanted to know were to create and install tools? Can I recreate a pseudo UNIX... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: 454rocks
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a file abcd.txt which has contents in the form of full path file names i.e.
$home> vi abcd.txt
/a/b/c/r1.txt
/q/w/e/r2.txt
/z/x/c/r3.txt
Now I want to retrieve only the directory path name for each row
i.e
/a/b/c/
/q/w/e/
How to get the same through shell script?... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: royzlife
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
using OS X and the Terminal, I'd like to find all locked files in a specified directory, unlock them, and print a list of those files that were unlocked
how can I do this?
I'm familiar with chflags nouchg for unlocking one file but not familiar with unix enough to do what I'd like.
Thanks! (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: alternapop
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have a file with about 60 lines of path:
app-defaults/boxXYZ.......
I want to change this to /my/path/goes/here/app-defaults/boxXYZ, but of course vi doesn't like the regualr :s/old/new/ command.
Is there any other quick way to do this?
Thanks ;) (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Yinzer955i
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