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1. Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions
Well I searched the net with varying success, but it seems kinda hard to find a one/max 2 lined command to:
strip all *.png files in the folder from their first two characters.
Any help is appreciated.
In DOS commandline of course... (17 Replies)
Discussion started by: pasc
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all!
This is my first post and I'm very new to programming. I would like help creating a simple perl or bash script that I will be using in my work as a junior bioinformatician.
Essentially, I would like to take a tab-delimted or .csv text with 3 columns and write them to a "3D" matrix:
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a text file called file1 which contains the text: "ls -l"
When I enter this command:
bash < file1 > file1
file1 gets erased. However if I enter this command:
bash < file1 > newfile
the output from "ls -l" is stored in newfile. My question is why doesn't file1's text ("ls -l") get... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: phunkypants
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
This is the command. Assume file1 exists but file2 does not:
ls file1 file2 >newfile 2>&1
This simply makes a text file with two lines: file1 \n file2 could not be found. What I don't understand is that when you run this command: ls file1 file2 >newfile, it prints "file2 could not be found" to... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: phunkypants
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi to everyone here,
I'm a new user and relatively-new linuxer.
I'm trying to write a script that checks if every file from a directory is present in a given list and if not, delete it.
should be simple. But I think I've done half the work only:
this is to create the reference list:
for c... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: dentex
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
to gather the cpu utilization from a system in 5 minute intervals and direct output to file.
I'm new at scripting and while this seems like an easy task I'm confused on where to start. thanks for any help (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mkeyes001
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a bash script, but it needs to have a simple protection with password.
So if a user wants to run the script , there should be a kdialog to asks for a password.If the password is correct the script starts to run.
It should not be the passord of root or another admin user.Just a password in... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: poort
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am writing a shell script in bash one of the thing I want to show is size of export /home
du -sk /export/home/oracle | cut -c 1-5
echo "kbytes"
when I run the script kbytes shows up in the second line, How can I append kbytes on the same line, such as
61233 kbytes
please guide
thanks (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Tirmazi
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys, I'm new to the forum so forgive me if I'm sounding ... daft.
I currently work in a Tech Support role. Every day we have to generate data by running around 10 .sh scripts. I was thinking instead of having to ./filename 10 times is it possible to right a new script that will run these for... (16 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm sure I'm doing something wrong but as I am new to bash shell scripting I'm not sure what:
Here's the code
webalizer.conf is sitting in the same directory as this file which is named webalizer.sh. Can someone tell me if I've got the syntax right -- it that's correct? I'm executing the... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: xaphalanx
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