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Success!!! Thanks so much Radoulov!

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Thanks, that worked!

It's a cygwin install, I am opening a new cygwin window

ps -p$$ returns the following

$ ps -p$$
PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND
3220 1 3220 3220 con 1001 23:53:27 /usr/bin/bash

but echo $SHELL...

Hi, I just updated /etc/passwd so that my default shell is zsh. After I save and make a new connection I can echo $SHELL and see /usr/bin/zsh, but my prompt still looks like bash and some env var...

thanks, that'll work

I would like to record the PID of a process when i lauch it from my script

something like:

#/bin/bash
$abc_pid = /apps/abc/abc.bin -port6700

I know I can run the ps command and grep for...

I've googled and searched unix.com, but no hits. Can some explain what DAM is? (in english)

Anyone have a script that will syncronize two local directories so that if a file up dated in Folder A, then Folder B will be updated and vice versa?

Thanks vgersh99,

Looks somewhat like sendkeys (VBA command). I looked up expect. Looks like I'll need to play with it a lot before getting it to work, but undoubtedly a better approach.
...

Jim,

What is a here document?

Also, that solution does not work, just tosses me back out to my orig host.

I have a ksh script that does a bunch of things, then runs

telnet server_b

I then manually login, manually run one command (which launches an application with display back to my workstation),...

Unix is great at giving you power were you need it, but what a pain in the rump when you just want to do such a simple thing like file management. I'm going back to Windows, crashing is frustrating,...

Thanks Rock on!

Thanks for the answers guys, it works great!

Sorry Perderabo, didn't realize that was not allowed.

I am using this as my command line in Hummingbird Exceed XSession:

xterm -ls -geometry 150x60 -display @D -bg white -fg black

The problem is that I need scroll bars. Any ideas on what to add?

It said Page not found

any idea's on this??

Hi, I know that I can launch File Manger or Text Editor from the icons on the KDE manger. How can I launch those via command prompt? Because I would like to launch from an X-Session.

Thanks,

I am using this as my command line in Hummingbird Exceed XSession:

xterm -ls -geometry 150x60 -display @D -bg white -fg black

The problem is that I need scroll bars. Any ideas on what to add?

Hi, I come into unix with csh, but i switch to bash . I want to clear my command history for each session, history -c, but for some reason this doesn't work in the .bashrc file. I know that the...

in csh I was using:
set prompt=""$HOSTNAME".tk.\!> "

to customize the look of my prompt. I have seen the light after reading the perils of csh scripting and wish to switch to bash. How do I...

U ROCK!


...thanks again

Hello again vgersh99,

So, how would i implement this in a script. My input file is called 4 and it looks like this

20161115
20190815
20200215
20200515
20200815
20210215

I want the...

I have a text file with a very long list of dates, one date per line. Each date is in the same format yyyymmdd. I need the dates to be in mmddyyyy format.

This is part of a larger tcsh shell...

I was having the same problem and ended up using the paste command to rearrange:

cut -d , -f 1 some.csv > 1.csv
cut -d , -f 10 some.csv > 10.csv
paste -d ',' 10.csv 1.csv > combined.csv
rm...