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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
For the sake of not going insane and not buggering a load of needed system stuff, I have created a dir /mybin. (This is a Debian system.)
I have then edited the /etc/profile and /etc/login.defs files and added :/mybin to all of the path variables. I have the file /mybin/mtp for... (2 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Recently I lost a number of changes I made to a program when the SCO Unix system went down. The system "mail" suggested a "vi -r" option that took me back several days. To prevent this in the future, I am trying to create my own vi command:
if
then
cp -p $1 $1.bak
fi
/usr/bin/vi $*
if ... (5 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I have a variable test has the following value assigned.. could you please help on doing cd or ls to the value in the varible ...
$echo $test
/bdm/sdd/compounds/AD4833XT/requests/clin/Watson_20090420/docs/MHRA\ Comments\ \&\ Responses
$cd $test
ksh: cd: bad argument count
$cd... (3 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi I am using MKS Toolkit c shell.
I want to basically check if my PATH variable already contains a certain path directory so I tried this (it didnt work!): if: Expression Syntax
if ( echo $path |grep -c c:/PROGRA~1/blah/blah ) then
please help me get this little statement to work.
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5. Solaris
I am trying to install the pkg-get package to a fresh install of Solaris 10. I am able to download and install correctly using the default directory for both pkg-get and wget as found on blastwave.org. When I issue the command "which wget and which pkg-get" it returns no wget or pkg-get found in... (1 Reply)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
How to pass a file path to open a file?
I am using cygwin.
I want to open a file from a particular path, say C:\Test\File1,. This file path is stored in a variable.
I am able to cat a file like this :
cat "c:\Test\File1"
but i want the same thing to happen in my script file through a variable... (3 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi
i am writing a script containing processing commands which are reside in /opt/terascan/bin dir. if i run the script from command prompt it is working fine. but in crontab it is not working.
if i give env command from command prompt it is showing /opt/terascan/bin dir in PATH variable.
... (10 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi ,
i have written csh script i am unable to set PATH variable in my script.
my script is like this
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# ! /bin/csh -f
setenv PATH "$PATH:/opt/terascan/bin"
ls -l > list
lspass > pas
peekauto > schedule \
num_days = 1 \
exit 0... (1 Reply)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello everyone,
I'm a unix noob. I have a powerbook running mac os x 10.4 and for one of my classes I need to install the latest version of php (5.0.5). I'm following the instructions at http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/php.html to install but I've run into a problem.
The... (2 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
root->echo $PATH
/usr/ccs/bin:/opt/sfw/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
root->find / -name gcc
/usr/local/bin/gcc
/usr/local/doc/gcc
root->which gcc
no gcc in /usr/sbin /usr/bin
Why cant it find gcc - the path looks okay doesnt it?
I am running solaris 9 - and... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: frustrated1
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