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Doing ctrl v + key in vi isn't working for the Home, End, Pageup, and Pagedown keys

I think the keys are set to control the actual terminal itself-- ie. scrolling the terminal

That specific .exrc text didn't work in this case.

How might I determine the character code for these keys?

I know ctrl+v + key usually works, but it isn't for reasons I do not know

SunOS marge 5.10 Generic_142910-17 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
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Hi all--

I'm using a SunOS machine at my campus and my pageup and pagedown keys are unresponsive inside of vi.

I'm not too thrilled about using ctrl+f and ctrl+b to do this operation, so I'm...

Brilliant! I appreciate your help :]

Interesting..

care to explain how that works?

So, my code is:



And the current output is:



How would I resolve this? (testDir does exist)

Also assume that the user will not always enter ~/...

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Thanks..

Another related problem:

I'm querying the user for a file location/name to create a file to log information to... something like /home/username/info.txt

But if the user enters...

I'm writing a bash script that reads a file location from a user, and I'm wondering how to get the script to accept tab to auto complete the directories that are input.

brilliant! i am using bash so disown works perfectly.

Under the assumption I wasn't using bash, how would this be accomplished?

I have my unix machine configured to run locate.updatedb on login in the background and after it completes, when I run a command such as ls-- the console returns the results of ls and
[1]+ Done ...

How might I write a shell script that queries a user for information that is sensitive (say a password)-- and does something like:

Password? ******** <---- the user's entered information

or ...

I appreciate all the comments, especially that of trey85-- those kinds of comments are the most useful.

Specifically, what I'm trying to figure out is how to change the passwords of an assortment...

I need the script to ssh into a switch and change some values, so I'm thinking expect is my best option to accomplish that.

Actually my question seems completely straightforward...

I would like to know how to write a script using expect (http://www.nist.gov/mel/msid/expect.cfm) that would automate an ssh command.
...

bump.

How would I write an expect script to automate ssh and what file extention do expect files use?

Is it possible to design a shell script to reference something that queries for input?

(This is not to make a script to ssh)

For instance if I have a command that when run, it does something...

Hi everyone--

I'm new to these forums and shell scripting, and I'm trying to write a script that checks if a particular ip is pingable

My idea was to check if the output of the command ping...