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I am trying to set my backspace key as the erase key
right now I have to type CONTROL-H to delete.
Can you please tell me the command to set my backspace
as the erase key......

Could someone tell me what is wrong with these PERL statements

it is always setting the $status2 to the number inside of the brackets......why????????

if (/^Status:/)
{
$stat =...

How do you change the modified time of a file on UNIX??

I am reading a file into a parameter in my program

typeset nums_type


if the contents of nums_type = asdfghbqwerty


how do make a new paremeter eqaul to the 7th character of nums_type. ...

Can anyone tell me if the copy command in PERL has the same functionality as in KSH shell in UNIX or does it actually move the file ??

$cp_stat=system("cp $ENV{OLAMEBSDIR}/data/olam.ddabal$type...

I am writing a script and I need to check a variable and get rid of any single quotes that may be in that variable. Could somebody give me an example of how to do this??

$1=s'sdfsdfs'

reason=$1...

I want to compress all the files in a given directory. My problem is that there is a file linked to another file in this directory. When I run the command

compress dir/*

I get an error because...

you probably want to set a variable to the output of the previous command:

filetype=`file /etc/resolv.conf`

and then perform a test on the variable filetype to see if tit contains what your...

I'm using the following command to test for certain characters in a script

echo "${1}" | grep '\$'
if (( ${?} == 0 ))
then


testing this script on the command line I have

ksh -x...

What is the best way to retrieve muliple variables back to a unix script from a record in oracle?? I'm using the Korn Shell on AIX.