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You can aways try
pkill -9 firefox
the -9 is a signal that tells the pkill command to be an aggressive kill. I would suggest looking at the different signals you can send to a process with kill or...

Its always a good idea to do a
man find
and see what options your find allows you to do. The man files are always very helpful in these regards.

Post here what types of programs you are looking to make and maybe we can give some suggestions on particularly where you should start.

I know this probably isn't what you are looking for but I always found this useful for unix command help.
Unix and Linux commands, information and help (http://www.computerhope.com/unix.htm)

You may be able to boot from the CD and mount the root file system and recover it from there. What is the OS on the system?

Absolutely. That is an option.

If you are looking to create a dual boot environment, Linux distros usually have a partitioning too that should allow you to resize the Windows partition to make room for a Linux partition to exist....

To answer that let me explain the difference.

Basically cp will perform a copy from one location to another.

rsync is more advanced. Its more designed for synchronizing directories. It can...

My suggestion would be to write a Perl script incorporating Regular Expression to solve your issue. It may be easier to pull out your unique values that way.

cp *922371* directory_name
should work for what you plan to do. Even better, if you know the files will end with ".gz" then I would take it a step further and say
cp *922371*.gz directory_name
I...

Yes and its quite simple depending how you set up your list of file names. Probably the easiest way is to have the file names listed one per line in the file. Then you can do this in your script.
...

Thats an interesting question you post. For some reason sudo popped into my head. The only thing with sudo is root has all access. Maybe there is a way to configure that differently.

I found Perl easy to work with. I've heard it referred to as being a reporting language and I find it great for generating reports. you can use Perl to create CGI scripts which means you could easily...

When you are pinging the hostname you need to have DNS on your network. If you dont have a server running DNS you could always work around that by adding the name and IP in the windows host file (not...

Another trick I ran across when this happened to me was to do this for example.

rm ./-f%conn_err.out

It could possibly be located on one of your install disks.

Look in to setting up sudo on the box. Sudo is what I have used to give particular users permissions to run scripts and start and stop applications without compromising the system. It may even be...

There probably is no need to make this statement but it can't be stressed enough. Back up any files that you intend on editing no matter how little of a change you plan to make.
Easiest way to do...

I would suggest this.
echo "\n" | format
This should echo a return to the format command and display all disks. I tested it and works pretty good. Should return you to the prompt after output is...

What i do, but it might be over kill, is create a .netrc file in the home directory of the user that will be FTPing. The permissions set to 700. In the file I add the following.

machine [server]...

Here are some suggestions that might help you.

COUNT=`ls /foo/bar/foobar* | wc -l` may be better code then the find you have executing.

Then I would say if count didn't equal 0 then use mput...

My suggestion would be to have your sed command in a script and have it output to a temp file and then have the mv command write the temp file over the original file.

Maybe you could try changing the expire field in the shadow file.

Also good to know is anything written for bourne shell can run in korn shell. As TinWalrus stated, korn shell has more functionality.

Now the #! ( pronounced Shebang ) line of the script just...

I guess in terms it can be. "A file server is a computer responsible for the central storage and management of data files so that other computers on the same network can access the files." Source...