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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hey guys,
Suppose i run passwd via bash shell. It is a suid program, which temporarily runs as root(owner) and modifies the user entries.
However, when i write a C file and give 4755 permission and root ownership to the 'a.out' file , it doesn't run as root in bash shell. I verified this by... (2 Replies)
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2. Homework & Coursework Questions
1. Write a shell script to print the file names of all files having .txt extension of a given directory after converting to uppercase letters. The input (directory name) should be given as command line argument. The script will also check whether sufficient arguments are passed or not and whether... (2 Replies)
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3. Homework & Coursework Questions
1. Write a shell script to print the file names of all files having .txt extension of a given directory after converting to uppercase letters. The input (directory name) should be given as command line argument. The script will also check whether sufficient arguments are passed or not and whether... (1 Reply)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I need to use my script via html web page, already webserv running in my unix box...
Please provide me the sample html files or any web site
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hy i have some tasks to do in school but i'm having problems with it,so could you help me out? :)
first there is a task where i have to find a running program on the system and kill it, then repeat that every 5 minutes. The name of the process is given with an argument. I have done this so far,... (1 Reply)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Are the programs written on schedulers ,thread library , process management, memory management, et al called systems programs ? How are they different from the programs that implement functions like open() , printf() , scanf() , read() .. they have a prefix sys_open, sys_close, sys_read etc , right... (1 Reply)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
please help iam a student and i have been asked to submit shell programs . i have given a listing and can u direct me as to where i can find the programs or if anyone could be kind enough to solvbe them for me and post it here pls
shell program to implement IPC
to implement parent child... (1 Reply)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I am writing a set of scripts and some of these are nested within others. I want to be able to execute a single high-level script at the command-line, which in turn may invoke other scripts as required, and when a failure occurs in any of the nested scripts, I want to be able to track... (2 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I wanted to know the format everyone uses for cfg files that are called by shell programs. I do mostly sh and ksh scripts and many times I'm modifying an existing script to do another task.
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
why do we have 3 types of shell programs.
I read that the k-shell is supposed to be the latest replacement of the Bourne shell with additional features. But why call it K-shell when one can call it as a different version of Bourne shell say bourne2.
what do we have the C shell for?
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