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The short description you gave is confusing at best. No one here can even begin to guess what it is you're doing if you don't explain a little bit more...

This goes for your other...

Your best bet is to read the man pages on these commands:

cd [ directory ]

If directory is not specified, the value of shell parameter $HOME is used as the new working directory.

pwd

pwd...

Not that I'm aware of ... by "last line" you mean the last command that was entered? If you mean the previous directory, then it's cd ..The tilde changes to your home directory, so the first command...

Since I doubt many people are going to let you break into their computer - even if you do give them your IP and OS :p - why not just get a second cheap computer and practice on that?

And that's not a pipe, it's a number 1.

From the man page for ls:-l use a long listing format
-1 list one file per lineSo the OP intends to list all the details of each file and only one...

avhg1, what is some example input into this script? It looks like you're trying to accept user input... or are you feeding a file into the script?

Also, what are you trying to accomplish here?...

Interesting work-around; it sounds like you'd end up with a large file in a short amount of time though ... Perderabo's script is worth taking a look at. It has a ton of functionality to it.

How about just reversing what his script did then? If the only time a backslash character shows up is right after a carriage return character, try:

sed 's/\\/\n/g' yourFile > anotherFile

http://www.microsoft.com/unix/ie/default.asp
Right from the source ... not sure if you can download it anywhere else.

I don't understand, kazanoova ... wouldn't the output be ab cdefr tab cdab tasdfg?

was just having a bit of fun kelam ... there's always a critic .... :p

Where's this code coming from? Is it, like Norsk said, the output of a script? Are you just entering it on the command line?

Include the exact command you're using that's producing the undesirable...

First off, your "if" statement is incorrect.. you should have:
if ((total=num1+num2+num3/3)); thenSecondly, you didn't actually tell the script to display the total! :o

And thirdly, you need to...

Read through this thread (https://www.unix.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12966&highlight=six+months+year) concerning a similar problem.

See if RTM's suggestions about installing the gnu version of...

I think the problem does not have to do with assigning the variable, but with echoing it back. Try this:

> var=s* (or var='s*')
> echo "$var"

The quotes should prevent the contents of the...

I think examples would help here...

What do you mean, "old file name"? Do you mean there's gonna be a file called Filename.03012004.txt and you want to rename it to the current month...

Sharkbait, are you a teacher? ;)

"remove lines that start and end with the same word"
awk '$1 != $NF' yourFile > newFile

As you can see, these aren't necessarily "tough" examples. :)

You must've picked up a very general book...

I usually try code before I post it. I did this time too. For me, it worked in ksh with double brackets, but not with single, so it seemed like a legit suggestion.That's our Perderabo ... mr....

Not sure what you're trying to do... if you want to copy files from one directory to another and maintain their permissions, just use the cp command. But I'm hoping the question you're asking wasn't...

I'd use double brackets:
if [[ "${CURR_STATUS}" || "${CURR_STATUSTEST}" != "${NEW_STATUS}" ]]Besides that, it should work, but I'm not sure what you intend it to do. Basically, the statement will be...

Maybe before you completely give up, you could try searching for the files since maybe your "mv" command is doing something unusual instead of displaying an error. But like Optimus, my system...

Perderabo's script would've give you 32 27 from the last row, which is not what you wanted... or did you just make a typo?

Your wildcard on "ls" will run into the same problem. ;)

See this thread: grep multiple text files in folder into 1 text file...

Try throwing "-prune" into your find command.