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I'm trying to pick up some Unix SysAdmin skills on my own outside of work through the use of the "Unix and Linux System Administrators Handbook." I've found the exercises to be very beneficial, until...

Thank you, Cjcox! That's a huge help. Do you understand what they mean by which processes were added to each route? That makes no sense to me.

Thank you, Hergp, that does help!

In terms of which is closer to the actually internet - would it be 10.0.0.0 or 10.1.1.0, or neither? I still don't understand that part of the question, or "which...

Thank you cjcox. I appreciate the help. For now I'm trying to understand this example before moving on to more complex scenarios.

I'm trying to learn the basic in's and out's of networking on my own through the use of a book. When it comes to routing tables I'm completely lost. I apologize for the alignment of the table below....

I'm trying to lookup the definition of the ext4 superblock schedule in the kernel header files, but I can't seem to locate the files. I'm running the most recent Raspian Debian Wheezy OS with kernel...

I'm running Foobar Linux OS and setting up a machine to operate as a server box for a large social group.

The default distribution is:
/ 2GB
/var 100MB
...

I've run into one small issue with the space (SP) character. On the command line, if I type ./morse.bash "CAT IN" the output is -.-.,.-,-,SP..,-.,EOT. I can't figure out why two .. are following the...

Now you're just showing off

Thank you kind sir!

I must say - for a novice trying to learn Unix, this board has been a godsend. I continue to be blown away by the number of people willing to help. Not only that, but they're...

Thank you both!

I'd like to get the output to print vertically (I find it easier to read that way), but want to keep the SP between words and the EOT at the end.

Thank you gentlemen. I'll give that a shot.

Continuing my quest to learn BASH, Bourne, Awk, Grep, etc. on my own through the use of a few books. I've come to an exercise that has me absolutely stumped.

The specifics:
1. Using ONLY BASH...

Thank you, Junior. I'm trying that out now. And yes - I'm getting unary operator expected errors with my script.

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Chubler! Thank you, I got that patched up, though I'm still getting garbage back.

COUNT=($1-1)
while read -r line; do
COUNT=$(( $COUNT +1))
if [ $COUNT >= $2 ]
then
echo "$COUNT"
fi
done

I'm working on a new exercise that calls for a script that will take in two arguments on the command line (representing the range of line numbers) and will subsequently print those lines from a a...

Thank you kind sir! And thanks again to all who helped

That's perfect, Don!

The only line I'm not sure I understand:
if [ "$line" != "${line#*#}" ]

I understand the reference to line from above, and the not equal (!=), but the #*# is confusing. I...

Thank you everyone for your help. I want to read in the from from the command line, search for comments, then output to the screen: example ./myscript.bash <comments_script.sh. If no comments are...

Thank you Singh! I misread your post. I'll give it a shot, and appreciate your help.

Thank you, Singh! But I'm trying to do this without the use of sed, awk, grep, etc.

As I stated in a previous thread - I'm a newbie to Unix/Linux and programming. I'm trying to learn the basics on my own using a couple books and the exercises provided inside.

I've reached an...

Thanks to all who helped me with it. I think I've got it working. On to the next challenge :(

I'm using it as part of an exercise in the book. In this respect, I want to use it (or tcsh)

Thank you, Carona. I'll try that but would like to learn how to do it both ways. I'm learning UNIX through a book I bought and this was one of the exercises. Clearly - I'm not very good at it.