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Hi all,

putty connection manager is great but when attempting to sudo or ssh to another box via the post login commands it is subject to issues due to network latency (what happens is that pcm...

Hi guys,

As I understand it, there is a file within my unix account that will list the users that I am able to sudo to.

Is there any way that I can list these users out without actually...

Hi all,

I need to mark a file with it's current location in the file system before being moved.

This will enable the file to be restored back to it's original location.

Can anyone provide...

sed 's/-\w\+//g'

works a treat Scrutinizer thank you.

Could you offer an explaination as to what this SED command is doing?

Hi,

how could you go about removing words that begin with a certain character.

assuming that this character is '-' I currently have

echo "-hello" | sed s/-/""/

which replaces the leading...

Perfect, thank you Scott.

Hi all,

In Bash shell, do the references $#, $$ etc have a collective name?

Also is there any way of finding a comprehensive list of those that are available and what information they store?...

Hi i'm quite inexeperienced but my suggestion would be to use the modulus of 4 for your trigger to /366 instead of /365.

Hope this helps you out a bit

Hi guys,

Is there any way this can be done, or return whether any substitutions have been made?

thanks for any input.

skinnygav (using Bash shell)

ok now have

echo $var1 | eval awk -F \"\" \'{print \$$var2}\'

which works fine, thanks for all your help guys!

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Hi all,

if for example I had a variable containing the string 'hello', is the any way I can output, for example, the e and the 2nd l based on their position in the string not their character (in...

hi,

i currently have a file with columns similar to this

customer name owed
CID123 John 300
CID342 harry 500

at present i use use awk to find the amount owed by the customer using...

hi guys, im learning so be gentle...

i'm wanting to write a script to read in a customer number.

in order that the code is robust i want to check

1) the length of the value entered (4...