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Outstanding. That fired my long-inactive X11 neurons. It worked fine.

I can log into a unix system with Putty. I've set the "X11 forwarding" checkbox, and I've verified that I can display an X11 window back on my laptop. What I need to be able to do is "su" to...

Curious. The first one doesn't exist, but the second one does (it mentions the second one in the man page). This expression worked. It's confusing that the regex(5) man page says it's "[:blank:]",...

I'm on Solaris 10, if that matters, but my egrep appears to be different from what you have.

Character classes are recognized as "[:blank:]", not "[[:blank:]]" (according to the regex(5) man...

Yeah, missing the "\*" was a stupid mistake. It's still not working, however.

If I use '^\*\*\*\*\s*[a-z]*\s*', it finds lines, but not '^\*\*\*\*\s*[a-z]*\s*Fri Jun'.

If I change it to...

I'm pretty experienced with regexps, but I just can't get this expression to work.

The first line of my test file is this:

**** info Fri Jun 04 12:37:58 PDT 2010 stuff

I'm piping...

I have a Bash script on Cygwin that tries to iterate through the directory entries in PATH. I need to convert the PATH value to a form that I can iterate through with "for var in $list; do".

For...

"$#" gives the number of command-line arguments. How do you get the last command-line parameter (or any particular one determined by a variable)? I thought it would be "${$#}", but that produces...

Perfect, that worked fine.

I know about markers in "less", and I know about the "pipe" command, but what I need to do is write a region of a file to another file. I can set the mark and move to the end of the region I want to...

I'm using wget 1.11.4 on Cygwin 1.5.25.

I'm trying to recursively download a directory tree, which is the root of a javadoc tree.

This is approximately the command line I tried:
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