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Hi,
Ho do I differentiate system call from library call?
for example if I am using chmod , how do I find out if it is a system call or library call?

Thanks
Muru

thanks, thats what I wanted! :)

thanks a lot,
but how can I do include the recursive option to the above command?

Hi ,
All those suggestions worked, except I couldn't test Hitori's, I only have Sun OS 5.7.

Thanks a lot guys, I liked

find. -type f -name "*.cpp" | cpio -pmd <destination directory> by...

I have a directory x and in that I have x.cpp and a directory named Y

and in y I have y.cpp and so on. and some other files too in those directories.

How can I copy only *.cpp files in whole...

I need to compress and tar a couple files in a directory, but I also want the original files unchanged, ie

if I compress a1.cpp , then a1.cpp becomes a1.cpp.z,
but what I want after running the...

try this

x=`echo $COMP_TEMP | wc -c `
if [ $x -lt 4 ] then
echo $COMP_TEMP
fi

[muru:~]cat lastchar
word=$1
num=`echo $word | wc -c `
let num-=1
last=`echo $1 | cut -c$num`
echo $last

assumptin: the string that comes after scriptname (its lastchar here) is the string...

Thanks, it shows ksh.

When I try which ksh it shows /usr/bin/ksh.

Is not a must for the shell executable be in /etc/shells (i am probably wrong here) or since ksh is one of the available...

Hi I have the following in .kshrc file

set -o allexport
HOSTNAME=$(uname -n)
HISTSIZE=50
EDITOR=vi
ENV=$HOME/.kshrc
PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local:/etc/bin/:/bin:/usr/local/bin:.
bind...

That works, thanks a lot for the guidence!

I could substitute
find . -name '*.txt '
with
ls *.txt
too!

Hi Jim,

Thanks a lot for ur reply. I understand what you say is right, that it is hard to read in a single line. This was one of my interview questions. I told them that I could it and explained...

Thanks for the reply, both the above suggestions works.

Can we do it in a single line using something like this

for file in `ls *.txt` ;do mv $file `sed 's/\..*$/.txt/'`;done

this doesn;t...

Thanks for your reply, unfortunately SunOs 5.7 doesn't seem to have mmv.

is there any way we could achieve this by following pseudo

find
mv [the file given by find to] ["work on the result...

I have a.txt and b.txt (and so on ) in a directory.

I need to move these files to a.xml , b.xml and so on, basically I just need to rename all the XXX.txt files to XXX.xml using find and mv , how...