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Thank you guys for your answers.

Much appreciated.

Hi Guys,

I don't know if this can be done or if anyone has managed to get this done - install Win xp on solaris 10 through vmware? I have searched extensively on the internet but I haven't come...

Thanks mate, that worked like a charm

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I am trying to list and count all the files of a particular type in any given directory. I can use the commands separately but when I combine them they do not give an output.

The...

Thanks for your reply - I have python running on my system and it's the 1st time I've used it to be honest. Needless to say I do not know anything about it. The script that you've written, can it be...

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I have a number of files in a directory that I would like to rename - I am quite aware that you can use the mv command to rename the files - I would like to rename them automatically from...

2, One Mac 17" Powerbook G4 & HP xw6200 running Solaris 10.

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This is the scenario - I want to remove some files from a directory and not all of them. I've found out that if you use the command ls | xargs rm, it will remove all the files from the...

Dude you rock, I was shaking cos I thought I messed up my little baby....Cheers

I am running Solaris 10 on an x86 platform.

Hello guys,

I have broken the cardinal rule - not creating normal user and working as Root - and as such deleted the /var/adm/messages directory. Is there any way possible to recover this.
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Thanks, I tried this method and it worked.

Thanks for helping out.

ShawnMilo, thanks for your input.

Under the normal user account I did the 'which sysdef' and I got the output 'no sysdef in /usr/bin /usr/openwin/bin /usr/ucb'. So I ran the same command as root...

It would be helpful if someone could help me out here. The problem I have been having is that I cannot run some commands which are valid - whenever I try to run the command I get the message ...

I should have typed ifconfig...my mistake. How do I check the path to ensure it's the right one?

Hi guys,
I do apologise if this question has been asked before. I am currently running Solaris 10 on a x86 architecture. Now, the problem I am having relates to the issuing of commands, for example...

thanks for your recent post. i have this command /usr/bin/time find /usr -name socket.h -print/usr/bin/time find /usr -name socket.h -print which i have ran on my personal linux machine. I dont...

whats the meaning of *.c that comes after a chmod command

Thanks alot for your reply.

what does this symbol ~ represent in unix for example....
If i create directories called personal and lab and lab5 and the command chmod 776~/lab5 is issued. What results would i expect to get. ...

thanx for ur help guys

After creating the directories shown below, I wanted to create a script that would show the permission for these directories using the ls -ld command...

mkdir SPADE
cd SPADE
mkdir HARLEM BRONX...

Sorry about that 9 distro..just got a little bit frustrated trying to get the screen shots. Thanks for your comments, i will have a look into that gimp.

How can I read a file that is created in linux wordprocessor on a winxp platform and vice versa without losing the original format fo the document. Do I need an emulator of some sort to be able to...

Thanks for replying, I found out what I was doing incorrectly so I managed to get it sorted.
Cheers