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Hello,

Can we pass shell variables like $PATH etc. to a awk program part

for example,

awk ' {
fieldValue=$PATH
....
}' file

try...

tr -d "\f" <filename>

warm regards,
Vishnu

pls. post how you are currently doing it. then we can possibly suggest improvement.

Regards,
Vishnu

That was really a very useful script, I will test it on my system and try to make use of it and keep it in bin path and advertise!

That was a great work esp. hiding all the complexity behind and...

write is an interactive command (do a man write).. so it can't be used in scripts... there are no non-interactive options that I know of with write...

by default you are not permitted to write to...

you need to double quote all those variables carrying animals including the positional parameter $1...

try this...

var1="Horse "
var2="Cat "
var3="Fish "

...

thanks a lot PxT, but alas I grew imapatient - backed up and re-installed my RHL 7.3, and it has taken care of every thing... also it nicely preserved my xp partition...

now I'm doing a research...

perl is not my domain but...

you need to have a daemon service for that... what you are asking is an event driven back up... I know a command line application for NT called "Hannibal" (which of...

my aplogies, perhaps a \n is not supported in the replacement string always... I've used cygwin to test this... I shouldn't have used "should work"...

I have a question though...

in the sed's s...

shuffling the /bin/sh /bin/bash etc. entries at the end of the line in /etc/passwd file should allow you to change your logon shell...

can you post with what you did with your /etc/passwd file?
...

sed -e "s/ */\n/g" should work for you

Cheers!
Vishnu.

whoever said that...

http://www.mcafeeb2b.com/products/virusscan-cl/default-virusscan-cl.asp

viruses per se, don't really apply to unix (there are trojan horses, etc, that can do a great deal...

Dear All,

Someone please help me.. I can't afford to lose the luster from my precious RedHat Linux 7.3 install (which I was able to accomplish painstaking efforts!)..

Here is my problem...

I...

put this line in your .profile

export TERM=vt100

and execute

. .profile

play with vt100, vt220 till you get it right..




this won't work if your intent is to set your "current"...

on the same lines...

echo "|||||||" | sed "s/|||/|0|0|0/g"

in a general case if you have n pipes in input,

you can use p pipes in the context address parts
and p "|0" pairs in the...

check out this link..

http://www.starquest.com/Productfolder/infoCAUX.html

Cheers!
Vishnu.

you need to have a 5250 client (some 5250 emulation software) on your machine... you can then configure that to access your AS/400 box..

this service is not the duty of a host AS/400, as it is...

try this...

nohup ./agent.be &

Cheers!
Vishnu.

if /win2k is your mount point.. you need to set the write permissions for group/others using chmod...

Cheers!
Vishnu.

nice catch hell666!

I remember long ago seeing atoi in stdlib... and wrongly clubbed both atoi and itoa as belonging to stdlib... now I confirm that only atoi is ensured by ANSI C and present in...

itoa and atoi do integer to string and vice versa conversions... these are available in ANSI C/C++ library stdlib.h

Cheers!
Vishnu.

most differences in behavior we see between cron running a job and manual runs is because of differences in path setting...

it is always imperative to use absolute paths (starting from /) in all...

A daemon may or may not be associated to a terminal - by association we mean being able to writes its stderr and stdout to the terminal... on unix systems normally long running jobs, routine jobs and...

replace those "rtf" and "doc" with $1 and $2 in your script...

I should add that the above way using "cut" will not work if you have multiple dots in your filename...


#!/bin/sh
for name in...

this can work with files having multiple dots "."

ls *.oldext | sed -e 's/^\(.*\)\.oldext$/\1\.oldext \1\.newext/g' | xargs -n 2 mv -f

Cheers!
Vishnu.