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After checking the man pages, the only advantage of CPIO that I can see is compression.
If compression isn't an issue, then perhaps you're over engineering a solution (I'm a firm believer of KISS -...

It's your package manager and the recommended way of loading / removing software from Ubuntu:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto

I don't have a Ubuntu install to hand to check myself, but I think it is in the software repository.

Your best bet is to load up synaptic and do a search for ncurses

I've often used
cp -Ru $source $destination

The -u flag only copies files if source is newer (ie 'update'), and you may already be familiar that -R means recursive (scans through subdirectories...

basically to check multiple directories, then you have to put your script inside a loop (so it runs the script several times - each time running it against a different directory)

The loop needs...

Sounds like you need to do some reading up on select statements ( Bourne/bash shell scripts: case statement | Bourne shell scripting | Tech-Recipes...

You might be better off using fdisk

$ fdisk -h
Usage: fdisk
[ -A id:act:bhead:bsect:bcyl:ehead:esect:ecyl:rsect:numsect ]
[ -b...

There might be an easier way (if shell scripts are getting this messy then I usually build the routines in another language, so I'm not the best authorety on the subject) but one "kill all"...

I think he only wants to exit script1 under certain conditions (eg some occations exit just script2 and other times exit both scripts)
The only way I know to do this is by checking exit codes.
...

have a none-zero exit code from script2 and get script1 to check for the exit code before proceeding.

Exit Shell Script Based on Process Exit Code - Stack Overflow...

It's in that file on my system (albeit a non-standard Solaris build: SunOS 5.11 NexentaOS_20080312 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris)


# The maximum number of concurrent unauthenticated connections to...

I don't suppose anyone has experienced any weird host crashes in Nexenta (host) using VirtualBox 3.0.x (in headless mode)?

It seems the host stays alive (I can even type text into the box if I...

A bit of background
I'm running a Nexenta (OpenSolaris kernel + a number of Debian tools) server running a ZRAID of 3x 1TB SATA2 drives (essentially a RAID5 formatted in ZFS, for those who aren't...