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Yes it solves.. but why does'nt ... work only for the 3rd line :)

I am trying to understand what the grep command in ubuntu is trying to do here.
The contents of my test file is given below

harsha@harsha-H67MA-USB3-B3:~/Documents$ cat data
abcd
efghi
jklmno...

I have written a simple program that counts the number of words in the input stream. There is a small bug in the code and i am not able to figure out the cause of this bug.




#include...

I was reading a book on UNIX internals "The design of the UNIX Operating system." There are two memory structures that are confusing me:
1) Buffer cache
2) Inode cache

My questions are
1)...

can you please explain in simple terms what is wrong.. and how to correct it?

I am getting a dereferencing pointer to incomplete type error when i compile the following code on lines highlighted in red. Can anyone help me in identifying what is wrong in the code?
...

I recently came across this construct that i am not able to understand.
ex: cat $(grep -l 'HELLO' *)
the above command prints out the contents of the file if HELLO string is present in the file....

ls file.110328.Z && ls file_prev.110328.Z

more, less are other file displaying commands. Yes you can definitely use cat in your script

harsh@harsh-desktop:~$ echo abcd | od -bc
0000000 141 142 143 144 012
a b c d \n
Quoted or not quoted.. newline is added to the end of the string.

harsh@harsh-desktop:~$ echo "abcd" | od -bc
0000000 141 142 143 144 012
a b c d \n
As you can see echo adds a newline at the end of the string echoed so you get 5 as the number of...

Not an elegant Solution but a solution anyways.. I am sure there will be better ways of doing this

following is a shell script that searches for the string in a given field.
#!/bin/bash
if [ $#...

grep -v "\*$" fileWithStar.txt > fileWithoutStar.txt

It is sort of a puzzle.

Thanks man. found out more than a few ways through which one can find the filename of the executing program. One interesting way was through __FILE__ macro which is passed to the compiler during...

Hi All,
I have a c program called findPath.c in a path /home/harsh/c-Programs/. How can i find the path where the program is stored at runtime?? I have given the following
#include<stdio.h>
int...

Thanks everyone for helping me understand the situation. The perl interpreter was actually mounted when the first time an ls command was given.

The operating system is Solaris. There is a perl interpreter that is located at /opt/perl5.10.0/perl. when i give
ls -ltr /opt/perl5.10.0/perl
I get an error message saying that...