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1. AIX
I need to disable a command. For example - disabling "ls" means that when someone type "ls" - nothing happens .
Somebody help ???? :confused::confused::confused: (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: bobochacha29
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2. OS X (Apple)
Googling suggested "osascript -e 'set volume 0' " but that doesn't work.
I know I'd found this before... some command-line utility that had something to do with audio, mixers, whatever, but I forgot to keep it somewhere I could find it. I did find references to writing an AppleScript app, but... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: jnojr
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have text file which is a tab delimited one. Sample data from the file is shown below:
unix is\ great\ os
linux\ is superb
I want to replace that backslash with empty string preserving the tab delimiter. Output should be
unix is great os
linux is ... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: p.akhilreddy4u
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4. Red Hat
Hi,
I have a simple question : how to disable screen lock and/or sreen saver with command line with RHEL5.4 ? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: albator1932
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have created with the DOS-command dir a list of a directory.
Directory of C:\Users\User\Documents
09.06.2011 20:50 48.322 file1.txt
02.11.2010 23:00 9.216 file2.txt
15.12.2010 21:06 26.793 file2.txt
Now i would like to add the directory ahead of the filename. Therefore a... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: sdf
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello Firends
I have a file that contains data within single quotes, which has meaning of its own. When I am trying to parse through the file for a different functionality I noticed that I was loosing the backslash when occurrences in the file look like ('\0'). I would want to retain the... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: easwam
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
In unix when I run rm command, it asks for file removal confirmation e.g.
rm netmail_log.csv
rm: remove netmail_log.csv (yes/no)? n
But if i prefix backslash to rm it does not ask for confirmation. Does anyone know what backslash does to command or shell ?
e.g.
\rm netmail_log.csv (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Devdatta
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
When I run my script in debug mode I see that \ is not getting executed as part of command. It is being treated as escape character.
find ${DATABASE_PARAM_PATH} -mtime +${RETENTION_PERIOD} -exec rm -rf {} \;
Command execution output in debug mode :
find... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: findprakash
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, I'm running into following issue, my_file is a collection of windows directories (i.e \\path\directory\file) . I need to be able to execute "my command" as
my command \\path\directory\file
I know that while read -r / print -r ignores backslashes.
My code:
cat $my_file | while read -r... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: agalkin
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10. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
I wish to learn how to use the alias command in .cshrc
I need to change some Unix commands, like :
change "rm -f " into "rm -i "
or to write small scripts using alias. (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: kamil
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