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Thanks, it works prefectly

Hi,

Can anyone tell me how to restrict the size of the text in a file (to say 72 chars). I can do this within vim by using textwidth variable, but would like to do this from command line.

I...

My reply was in response to your remark
"Some people like to put the dirs command in their prompt"

I assumed that you set your prompt to display result of command "dirs".
You probably meant...

Thanks a lot ..

BTW, when you say putting dirs in the prompt, did you mean `pwd` ?
because dirs will list all the stack contents

Regards

This question is related to pushd and popd. After I have pushed directories, I would like to see what are the contents of the stack currently before I execut e popd. The reason is that many a times...

Being new to screen I am having real trouble with some basics.

Actually when I login to a machine and type
sharan :: screen -list

I see the following There are screens on:
...

Well the whole idea is to avoid having different script for each shell, otherwise
my probelm is solved.

I am putting my requirements as explicit as possible below

1) we are creating a...

Well that (putting into login script is not a good idea for me) since these are
project specific variables and one might be doing multiple projects at the
same time. Is is guaranteed that these...

I think I did not communicate properly ..

I cannot use the above approach because the script can be run by users
who might not be on korn or bash. So sourcing is ruled out and the
script has to...

That works in korn shell. In C shell it can be executed by simply typing the script name. But the point is that if the script is executed this way then variables set
using setenv are not visible in...

Hi,

I have to set bunch of variables and all other programs like make,
perl will use them ..

Here are my constraints and requirements ...

The variables have to be set by executing a script...

I believe that crob invokes command under bash. But most of our work are
carried out using c shell. So what do I need to be aware of (or what precautions should I be taking) when I use cron.

>> 2)The question about the directory is not clear. What exactly you want to ask.

To put it in a simple way, are the jobs launched from my home directory.
Most of the times, jobs need to be run...

I would like to add a job using cron. I have following questions

- cron jobs are launched using what login-id
e.g. is the script launced using my login-id

- In which directory would the cron...

Hi All,

I am facing a vague issue while trying to make two process talk to each
other using named pipe.

read process
=========
The process which reads, basically creates FIFO using
mkfifo...

Hi All,

I am facing a vague issue while trying to make two process talk to each
other using named pipe.

read process
=========
The process which reads, basically creates FIFO using
mkfifo...