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I think this code will serve your purpose:

echo "what is your username?"
read username
echo "Hello $username"
backup="backup"
restore="restore"
if [[ $username == "" ]]
then
echo "No...

I am trying to set my system variable LINES and not able to do that permanently. I used the following commands for this:
Can I able to chage the value of that variable permanently atleast I exit...

Thats really a great information. Thank you,

I think you were wrogn with syntax. Try the following code instead:

#!/bin/sh
echo "Search user:"
dir="/home"
read typed
if
$typed -e $dir
then
echo "user exist!"
else
echo "user deosn't...

What is the difference between test expr VS [ expr ].
For example :
if test 5 -eq 6
echo "Wrong"
and
if [ 5 -eq 6 ]
echo "Wrong"
bot will give the same output as Wrong.
Now, what is the...

For your kind information the contes of different files are as follows.
Contents of passwd file:
[root@Station130 ~]# cat /etc/passwd
.........
Ashok:x:516:516::/home/Ashok:/bin/bash...

May be this is a newbie question but i want to know hoe to open the RAR file in linux?

I am getting what I want now. Thanks for all your replies.

Here are we overwriting the contents of /dev/null by the error reports?

Thank You. It's working!

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When I try the command
$find /home/Ashok -name ENV.doc
I am able to get the...

Ya, I am able to login now. It's some mistake I did with my LDAP configuration.
So, I disabled the LDAP configuration and used MD5 password authentication.
But, there is a problem. All working...

I have a file, ENV.doc somewhere in my home directory. I want to know where the file is located in my sub directories using FIND. But, I want to display only the relative path along with the file...

Ashok:x:516:516::/home/Ashok:/bin/bash

Hey since this morning I(nonrrot user) am not able to log into my system with my username. I am using redhat linux kernel release 2.6.9-5.ELsmp. I aslo found the folowing output for chkconfig...

What does '1' specify in this command?

ls -a | sort | awk -v ORS="\t" '1'

Thanks for your reply. But I want to display the filenames seperated by tab. Actually, I am new to LInux. I dont know what is xargs?
Its better if you tell me for what we use xargs also.

...

I want some customised output of following command:
$ls -a|sort
gives output as filenames line by line. But I want the output as filenames aeperated by tab? How can I get this?

Thanks in advance.

I want to print the contents of a file from 2nd line to last but one line using the AWK command.
I tried using the Shell Script,MyScript as fallows:
MyScript:
{
if(NR>1)
{
if(NR<9)
{
print...

Hello,
Actually I donno anything regarding profiles in Linux. Can anyone tell me what are Profiles in Linux and if possible copy links regarding so.

Thanks in advance.

What does $ represent in command prompt?

I have a file "sample.txt" with the content as below:
Hi
This is a Sample Text.

I need a single command using cat which serve the following purpose.

1.display the contents of sample.txt...