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Hi Team,
I have a couple of questions. I happen to come across a code like this which i was asked to trouble shoot.

Any idea what these two do?

1.

cat $(file?File doesn't exist);


2.
...

That worked like a charm. Thanks a Ton

Hi Team,
How to get the last 3 characters of a String irrespective of their length using awk?

Thanks
Kinny

Hi Gurus,
I am working in tcsh and i set the prompt with this.
set prompt = "$cwd>"

But I see teh prompt only gets reflected with the directory where I set the prompt. After i cd to another...

Is there a way to cnvert first letter alone in a string to upper case.

For eg: diamond should be converted to Diamond.
Thanks in Advance,
Kinny

Hi Ahmad,
I tried this with bash and I get no output.
bash-2.00$ X=$(echo "1000%9" | bc);echo $X

bash-2.00$ X=$(echo "1000%10" | bc);echo $X

bash-2.00$

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It says Illegal variable name.

Even echo "1000%10" | bc gives me a core dump.
Please advise

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I am...

Hi Gurus,
I tried bc 1000 % 10 on tcsh and ksh and its throwing a core dump on a sun solaris machine.
uname -a
SunOS azote 5.9 Generic_118558-39 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4
Please let me know if you...

Are all the column values seperated by space except the column headers ?

If the QUIET variable is not set it will be default to yes in the first case

QUIET variable will be set to YES in the second case

I have a list of files in directory and i should write a script if any of these files contains words given in a text file test.txt. the words can be case ignored and word should match.

The output...

Hi Gurus,
How to list directories that are non-empty and non-hidden

Thanks in advance

How to compare two numbers with decimal points ?

Is there a way in bash to do this?

Hi

This should work

find ~ . .name com.apple.sidebarlists.plist .exec rm -f {} \; &

Perfect that worked like a charm. Also is there a way to suppress the output of the awk and just display the grand total. The output just looks clumsy

I need the grand total as well

Hi Scruti Thanks for the reply.

I think i misquoted. I want to print the names of the files and not cat the file itself. Hope this clears the confusion.

Hi
I got the problem. That's because my code is ignoring the sub directories. Thanks all for your help

I have a file list.txt which has a list of file names with spaces between the file names like
/emptydir/file 1
how do i browse through the list.txt displaying the filenames. Almost all the file...

Hi
Is there a way to count the no. of words in all files in directory. All are text files.I use wc -w but somehow i am not getting the rite answer.
Is there an alternative.
Thanks in advance

Hi.
Does any one know when the below will print hi ?

[ -t 0 ] || echo hi

Thanks in advance

Why does
echo "blal <1yassads > <1yassa> bla " | sed -n 's/\([A-Za-z]*.*\) \(\ <1[a-z]*e\ >\) \([a-zA-Z]*.*\)/\2/p'

not return anything for the first command

Hi ,
This is a pretty simple sed command i found when i was checking out one of the codes of my colleague .

sed -e 's/\[A-Za-z]*.*\) \(\ <1[a-z]*e\ >\) \([a-zA-Z]*.*\)/\2/'

When i tried this...

Hi
Any idea how to get the process id of the process using the ports

lsof -i :portnumber does not work in my machine. I am on sun Solaris SPARC.

Any suggestion is highly appreciated

well if this is a trap to catch the end of execution of script can Ctrl+C stop this execution.?