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I'm currently in a training environment and I've been wracking my brain trying to find out a way to SSH into another machine on our training network. SSH as root is disabled, and there aren't currently any user accounts on the machine.

I have input file like Input.dat with below content RRD 0Z91YUn000000Lk 9000100001 103020151117 STMT151117155527001 0000 2 000000 000004 RRD 0Z91YUn00000ysj 9000100001 103020151117 STMT151117155527001 0000 3 000000 000003 RRD 0Z91YUn00001vGh 9000100002...

Hi, I need to load data from two files to a single table. My requirement is that I get two files in which a few column data are manadatory. These files are identified based on the file name. For example, I have two files ABCFile and BCDFile. ABCFile has mandatory data in column 3 and 4...

Alright I have read all the documentation regarding the alternatives system present in Debian. And I still can't get my head around it. First, Correct me if I am wrong, the /etc/alternatives directory is nothing but a directory of symlinks right ? So for example java will have a symlink...

Hi, Can someone help in converting the below unstructured data to a CSV format please. { "branchId" : "BNSFGDJNSJG-73264HB-132131BNHJFSDG", "branchName" : "NEWYORK-SSDF", "branchProductId" : "72Y5HFHSF7H3RUNAWEF", "PreferenceId" : "BASDBVcbzcYHcb", "emailId" :...

Hi, I have a requirement where I have to check whether the mandatory columns in a pipe delimited file is null and print error message. For eg, I have to check if the 3rd,5th,6th,7th and 8th column are null and print the message "<column name> is null". The data file will have aroung 100,000...

Hello, I'm using the awk command to insert empty columns on a tab delimited flatfile - which works fine - => But I'm not able to manage dynamicaly the filename of the awk output based on the source flatfile filename I have 3 source flatfile: flatfile_Jan-2016.csv flatfile_Feb-2016.csv...

Hi, I'm fairly new to programming and was just wondering... Is it possible to modify the cat command (using a linux virtual machine) so that it displays text of a file and highlights a specifically chosen word? I've been looking for how to do it on the internet and can't find any helpful...

Good morning all, I have a machine running IRIX and I need to edit a text file on the terminal that is literally thousands of lines. Does anyone know the most efficient way to edit portions of files like these? Obviously simply using the vi command isn't going to work since I get a too many lines...

I want to perform ssh tunnelling for which I have been using PuTTy. Config is as follows: Host IP: 172.XX.XX.111Port: 22Tunnel setting source port: 19005Destination: 172.XX.XX.40:1521After entering my user ID and password, I am able to see in my command prompt that 127.0.0.1:19005 is listening....

I have several problems with my problems: I hope you can help me. 1) the If else statement I am getting an error message. My syntax must be incorrect because the entire statement is throwing an error. For example in filew.log if these items don't exist Memsize, SASFoundation and also if...

The Problem that I am having is when the code ran and populated the progflag.csv file, columns MEMSIZE, SECOND and SASEXE were blank. The next problems are the IF else statement isn't working and the email function isn't sending the progflag.csv attachment. a. What I want the program to do is to...

e.g. File name: File.txt cat File.txt Result: #INBOUND_QUEUE=FAQ1 INBOUND_QUEUE=FAQ2 I want to get the value for one which is not commented out.

Hello I am installing RED Hat linux on my machine and want to create partition mounted on /boot , / ,/var, /var/log,/opt , /export/home and /tmp. Do i need to force any of the mounted partition to be primary as i know if it is not created as a primary partition it is created as a logical...

I have to ftp and rename the file with #finished# extension after successfully transfer. In some environments the command rename ABCD.dat ABCD.#finished# is working fine, but some environments its not working, I have to use escape character something like : rename ABCD.dat ABCD.\#finished\# Why is...

What is the difference in these two awk command? Both returns same output but I am not sure what is the use of +0 in command 1. awk -F "," '{print $1+0,$2+0,$3+0}' awk -F "," '{print $1, $2, $3}'

I have a file with 2 lines of code Rome is in Romeo Romeo is in Rome How do I grep, so that only last line would be the outcome. sample output Romeo is in Rome I have tried with all possible greps but its resulting in both the lines in output.

First of all, apologies if this has already been answered elsewhere. I haven't quite been able to find what I'm looking for yet, so hopefully this won't come across as repetition. I have a file consisting of ~100 nearly identical lines, each of which contains multiple instances of the string I...

I have 2 servers - x2200 and x4200 sun solaris i am having difficulty connecting between the 2 servers using ssh command even as they see each other using ping command. Find below the message i am getting :- @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING: REMOTE...

Hi All, could you please answer the below question. 1)How to read the data from zip file without unzip? Regards Priyanka

Don, I revised script but when I ran it I did not receive any log. I am not sure what you mean to run it in code tags. I am using a putty session and ssh but I did not get a trace log? Barb ---------- Post updated at 01:33 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:27 PM...

what is the difference between zip and gunzip this is interview question

Hi All, could you please answer the below question. 1)How to read the data from zip file without unzip? this is interview question Regards

Hi, Could you please let me know, why we should not use '.' in move command, if we use it, is it something wrong.. Please share the details on it. /home/rahualux/emp.csv /home/rahualux/details/employee_files/.