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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi Folks,
I am struggling to understand nawk command which was used by another developer.
Can you please explain what each character or string is doing here below:
if ; then (3 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi. Can somebody please explain the following lines of KSH code for me? The code checks all sub directories in a specific location which are numbered (E.g. test_01, test_02 ... etc.), then finds the one with highest number and extracts that number from the dir name into the variable num. I'd just... (9 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi.. i am running nawk scripts on solaris system to get records of file1 not in file2 and find duplicate records in a while with the following scripts -compare
nawk 'NR==FNR{a++;next;} !a {print"line"FNR $0}' file1 file2duplicate - nawk '{a++}END{for(i in a){if(a-1)print i,a}}' file1in the middle... (12 Replies)
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4. Homework & Coursework Questions
1. I've been asked to provide a detailed description on how Minix's source code is organised. This may sound slightly simple, but what exactly am I to refer to when explaining? Any documents that would provide assistance to understand whats being asked? Thanks
2. Not applicable:
3.... (1 Reply)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I need someone to tell me how exactly works the following code αfter /etc/passwd :eek::
cat /etc/passwd|grep "^:"|sed '1,$s/^\(*\):*:\(*\):.*$/ \1 \2 /'|sort -nrk3 -t:I want a good explanation to understand the code please (4 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
I need your help in understanding the meaning and syntax of the below nawk line.
Here is an extract of a script which I use daily and works well. The script extracts the hostnames and messages within a syslog file. I would also like to extract the message time in the 3rd column by... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: wthomas
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Can you please explain the following code plz?
my_cd=' '
while getopts :e: OPTION;
do
case "$OPTION" in
e) my_cd ="$OPTARG";;
esac
done
if ; then
echo " >>> ERROR - I am wrong"
echo " >>> ERROR - Hello"
exit 99
fi
What I don't understand is what is OPTION or... (3 Replies)
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8. Homework & Coursework Questions
I have the following piece of codes. Please explain it to me in great detail how are these codes working.
1. #include <stdio.h>
int main(){
int x;
x=0;
while (x<2 && fork()){
if (!fork()) execlp("echo","x++","x",0);
x++;
system("echo x+x");
}
}
2.
#include <stdio.h>
int i;... (1 Reply)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Could someone give me a quick simple explanation for the AWK command.
And also help me to explain the code i have made. I have made some general comments about it myself. I was wondering if people could help me with the rest:
awk -F'' 'END {
fmt = "%-20s\t%s\t%s\n" ... (0 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi I am new to shell script programming...
want to know the process of the following:
if
then
echo "$0: missing argument for option(s) :$MISSINGOPTARG"
echo "usage" $USAGE"
exit 1
fi (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: chandhar
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