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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm fairly new to unix, and I have the following problem:
I know that if I type, "ps -ef | grep process", this will return some information about the process named 'process'. What I need this to do is be piped to an extra search that pick's out process' PID. How do I do this?
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
What's up guys,
I am currently trying to figure out the answer to this question and I cannot for the life of me! The question is : "Explain how to do the following in UNIX/Linux shell script. You are not expected to remember the exact command syntax, but explain approximately how you would... (1 Reply)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi there,
I need to loop some values,
for i in $(seq $first $last)
do
does something here
donefor $first and $last, i need it to be of fixed length 5. so if the input is 1, i need to add zeros in front such that it becomes 00001. It loops till 99999 for example, but the length has to be... (4 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, i am making a little script that when its invoked with p or f, it will do different things (p will ask the user to input an string and it will count its words , and f will ask the user a directory and will list the number of files in that directory. But if wont get the comparation string... (1 Reply)
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5. Solaris
I am using SunOS 5.9 and have the following outcome when using the sh and bash shells; has anyone else had this:
(tests behave differently)
bash-2.05$ ksh
$ if echo $SHELL; uname -a;; then echo yessssssssssssss; else echo nooooooooooooooo; fi
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
hello i am new with linux
hello unix forum.
i have big problem i want to install the samp server for every user folder for ex..
samp for my frined name fred fredsamp
then i want create more samp to my firend lee
i want folder name will be leesamp
i want to know how make the script put the... (0 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a ksh script with the following code and working fine under ksh.
IFS=$IFS
IFS=:
while read a b c
do
test "$a" = "$oraserver" && { orahome=$b; break; }
echo $orahome
done < /var/opt/oracle/oratab2
IFS=$_IFS
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
There is an interview question about UNIX bash:
Some shells like bash try to make '..' always work propery, namely, from home directory, cd ../$USER will place you in your home directory. Does bash always get this behavior correct?
Anyway can provide any example that bash doesnt work well? ... (4 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello there, I'm a beginner in bash programining and I have a problem with the interpretetion of the code: sed -e "s/\(*\):.*/\1/" in this for loop:
for process in $(sed -e "s/\(*\):.*/\1/" /etc/passwd)
thx for any help
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm having a problem with the while loop in bash. I try the following script:
#!/bin/bash
while true
do
echo "test"
done
When I try this, it gives me this error:
while: Too few arguments.
What am I doing wrong?
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