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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi I am trying to learn shell script and i ran into an issue.
I am trying to read a file with few directories and tar them up.
I used a while loop but i end up overwriting tar file with only the last directory in the file being tared .
cat test.txt |
(
while read line
do
tar -czPf... (8 Replies)
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,I'm new here and to Unix also. I'm totall newbie.
Here is what I have to do:
-Basics of programming user interface with Xlib library
-Xlib
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3. Fedora
Hi Friends,
This is my first ever post on this forum. I am a new user in the Linux field. Although, I have been working for sometime with CentOS at my work, I would consider myself an amateur only in this field. :D
The way file system works in linux and the reason its open-source, has really... (7 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am new to programming and also to perl..But i know 'perl' can come to my rescue, But I am stuck at many places and need help..any small help is much appreciated... below is the description of what i intend to acheive with my script.
I have a files named in this format... (13 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello everyone,
I am having to do a lot of perl scripting these days and I am learning a lot.
I have this problem
I want to move files from a folder and all its sub folders to one parent folder, they are all .gz files..
there is folder1\folder2\*.gz
and there are about 50 folders... (1 Reply)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello everyone,
Just started UNIX today! In our school we use solaris. I just want to know how do I setup Solaris 10 not the GUI one, the one where you have to type the commands like ECHO, ls, pwd, etc... I have windows xp and I also have vmware.
I hope I am not missing anything! :p (4 Replies)
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7. Programming
Hi all,
I am a newbie to unix programming using C..
So i would like to have a few simple C programs to start off with..
I wanted programs on learning ,
abort,kill and raise,alarm and pause,I would also like to know how to use the vfork() in a prg
It would be really great if i can have... (1 Reply)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am taking a db classes toward oracle 10g. I am taking unix as well . I need to know what is the best option for os . should I use linux fedora. or get a sun box and start learning from there. Thanks (6 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
OK, so I'm trying to finish my last individual assignment for this course, and it's the first time I've visited a forum (I've actually understood UNIX up to this point). I am having trouble with this one. I have to write a program that prompts the user to type their first name and stores it in a... (3 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have a file, that is delimited by :: and the purpose of this file is none of your business. ;)
There are about 65000 lines in this file, and there are lines that I would like to remove. About 45000 of them.
Is there some sort of commands that I can run, to remove word(s) from this... (4 Replies)
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