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If the strength of Unix based operating systems such as Linux and Red Hat are based on the fact that they are open-source. Who will provide support for personal computers or average users that uses...

I am trying to change the time on a Sun Solaris System, but I am having some difficulties. I thought by accessing the clock icon in the CDE would allow me to change the time. Also when I clicked the...

Which Unix utility would you say is most useful?

so is UWIN like an emulator that sits on top of Windows or is like VMWare or Virtual PC where it is an X86 emulator inside of Windows?

The local policy is set in our LAN so that passwords have to be 8 characters and contain a capital letter, a small letter and a special character. Is Unix able to restrict users passwords to certain...

Perl, Python, and PHP are these languages easy to use? Are they command line or are they part of a GUI?

Quick question for all of you Unix gurus. What are your thoughts on Pico as an editor. I have been using this editor for the last week or so and have made a lot of headway with my script writing. ...

I have come across the topic of changing shells, does that mean that all Unix operating systems comes with a variety of shells built in and its up to the user to select a shell of his/her choice?

I can see where the nohup command can come in very handy. My question is, do you have to do something like this (nohup) in order to run certain cron jobs? On the windows side, I have a couple of...

Can someone give me an example of two shells?

Can someone tell me exactly what this code is doing?


#
# gnutest
#
# Test launch of ghostscript (gs) from a script
#
rm gnutest.ps
#
# ------- calculation that would generate file(s) to...

Anyone have an example of a simple shell script that solicits a (Y)es or (N)o response from the user. If the response is 'Y' display a message on the screen that thanks the user for the positive...

A user's default permissions when creating new files or directories is set by the umask of either the system or in the startup script of the user itself. For example, I have 'umask 022' in my...

I'm not sure what I am missing on this, but I cannot get it to work properly. Hopefully, maybe someone can shed some light on what I have wrong!

#!/bin/sh
echo "Please type either Yes or No (Y...

what happens if the script doesn't get Y,y,N, or n? Will it just loop back up and ask the question again? I tried to get mine to give me another response to tell me my input was invalid, but ran into...

having a slight problem. any clues would help. Can't seem to get any output when I run a simple echo script.

grex.cyberspace.org% chmod a+x test
grex.cyberspace.org% ls -l test
-rwxrwx--x 1...

Just curious in Unix BSD lpr customer would result in the printing of the file customers to a printer but I also came across this command pr| customer| lpr which suppose to prepare the file by...

I remember learning that there is a way to make a shell script display the script itself to standard output while the script is being executed but I can't find how to do that. Any pointers?

I would be happy to streamline some of the commands I am trying to learn with easy to remember terms, like dir for ls -l. I am wondering if you script certain commands for every time you start-up...

I'v had a tough time coming up with a reason I would want to compare files...at least on a regular basis. In regards to chmod, the value of this command is self-evident for file integrity, file...

On the Mac, if you delete a file from the GUI, it actually gets moved to a .Trashes folder in your home directory. However, if you rm a file from the terminal application (command line), it is gone...

Quote: "Until the space is used for another file, it is not deleted and the data can be recovered (although it may require jumping through hoops)." Unquote

I know this is true in the Windows...

Okay here is a DOS comparison. When I search for a file in DOS and I was not sure what directory it was in then I would put dir /s/o/p filename the s would tell it to look in every directory...

I was at a vendor demonstration last week, and the presenter had his laptop on screen where we could see the product demo. He had a Unix terminal screen up and created an empty file, but he used...

"Can the permissions get more granular?" Read, write, and execute are great but what about enterprise level permission. Can Unix do that out of the box or do you need extra tools?