This means that the same utility can be called with two different names and depending on with which name it was called, it behaves in a certain way. My guess is your online man page differs from your system's man page?
What operating system, and version, are you using? Not all stat commands support the -c option. It is supported on my SUSE Linux box, but not on my FreeBSD box. Check the man page for the specific system you are dealing with.
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Forgot to mention that under BSD the option is -f.
Using OS X 10.6.8. I guess this version of stat is very different. I'll dig through the manual a bit more, but if anyone is familiar with how stat works on 10.6.8, maybe you can point me in the right direction!
Thank you. I never would have figured that out. Mainly because I never would have thought to put the "%z" in quotes. Is this to keep the shell from expanding %?
Hi.
I'm trying to install VMWare Workstation to run a virtual machine on my Mac OS, but running the bundle from bash(xterm)
sh VMware-workstation-Full-11.0.0-2305329.x86_64.bundle
(as suggested in install guide)
comes up with error:stat: illegal option -- -
usage: stat
Digging... (5 Replies)
For some reason read -e isn't working in my script. I need a directory as input from a user and I'd like for them to be able to use tab complete which is why I'm using -e. When the script is run, I get:
read: line 6: illegal option -e
In order to just figure out what is going on with the -e... (4 Replies)
hello. i have a script, but in solaris i get this message sed: illegal option -- i
whats wrong? With Ubuntu there is no problem. Thanks for help.
#!/bin/bash
for file in $(find /directory..../Test/*.txt -type f)
do
head -n 1 $file | egrep '^#!'
if
then
sed -i '2i\Headertext'... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
Is it possible to run date -d option in Solaris?
Do we have a work around so that -d option will be recognized
by solaris as it is recognized by linux.
I need this since i am using this in scripting and it works in Linux box. my problem is
it doesn't work in solaris box.
... (6 Replies)
Hi all,
I just implemented PAM on my Solris 8/9 boxes and one of the entries I have got in the /etc/pam.conf is as followed,
other password required pam_unix.so nullok remember=7 md5 shadow use_authtok
However, once I set this and the following meesages appears in /var/adm/messages... (1 Reply)
04-15-2012
