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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm having some difficulty with convincing Expect to do what I need..
I have a loop that waits for input, a specific phrase of text followed by a single word. I need Expect to capture that word following the specific phrase. It should then store the word in a variable.
I'm fairly sure it's... (6 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I am new to shell scripting and i am trying to figure why is this not working with else statement.
I am searching for every directory in that DIR i am in, however the "else" seems to be triggered whenever the run the script..
Much thanks in advance!
#!/bin/shell
for item in... (3 Replies)
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3. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers
What is this script meant to do? How do I make it executable and how do i run it? I am trying to understand what the script is doing and how it is doing it... need a little advice. Here is is..
if
then
list=`w | grep $user | cut -c19-30`
if
then
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
First time poster here and I'm pretty much a total noob with UNIX and Perl. So please bear with me.
With Perl, I'm trying to fill an array with data that is in a CSV file. I would like to fill the array with only one of the columns in the CSV file.
I have a file called data.csv:
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm trying to parse the website, finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ge&ql=1, and retrieve the info between <span id="yfs_l84_ge">18.98</span>, so 18.98.
What would be the best way to go about this in a bash script?
Any help or suggestions will be much appreciated.
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6. Ubuntu
I am editing the squid.confi on my server.
I am done editing.
How do I exit the confi file?
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7. BSD
I'm a Linux guy who is tring out BSD for the first time...
What is the BSD program to automatically fetch and and install software?
Is it pkg_add? Will pkg_add automatically fetch and and install software? Does it work on all BSD variants?
This is all I could find, but I wanted to make... (5 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I dont know what I am doing wrong but I would like to redirect the stderr output to a file?
the specific command is this
time wget http://www.something.com/somefile.bin
All I want to see is time's output which is stderr so I can see how long the file download took. I've tried redirecting... (2 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a file with 3 digit numbers in it formatted as such:
123
065
321
How would I go about seeing if each number is less than 100 and if so outputting it to another file
Yes, I am a bit of a noob. I have tried with grep but I don't think it'll work.
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Ok here is the deal, I have a command given to me by some systems guy who I cannot get ahold of on the weekend without paying him alot of money to help me. I need to get this done before Monday as I am just getting pummeled by DOS attacks. The comand given was....
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