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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
I would like to open a text m3u file and add the same string to the beginning of each line. I think I am close, but I cannot figure out how to escape the ampersand in the following code:
gawk-3.1.6.exe "{print /var/media/Music2.0TB2.1USB/Audio Files/Music/Rock & Roll/ $0}" "L:\Music\Rock &... (7 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello everybody,
I have a Problem with sed command.
I want to replace a defined string with a string from a database field (dynamic).
e.g.
sed -i -e 's/%NAME%/'"$HNAME"'/g'
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e.g.
HNAME="AH Kruger & Co. KG"
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to add the character "<" to the end of each line of input using the & function in SED.
Something like:
sed 's/.*/&\</'
It's important to use the &, not another method, because I want to know what I'm doing wrong.
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi All,
I am new to this forum and a beginner in unix. Please correct me if I put the question in a wrong way..
How to use emacs editor? Also how to open existing emacs files with .cgi format?
I have the following link :-
http link i.e. url and path : /abc/xyz.dev/xyz/documents
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Please explain the usage of ampersand in the following command
who & echo "Total number of users are `who|wc -l`"
What I understand is that ampersand is used to run some process in the background. And, what I am expecting from this command is
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6. AIX
How to monitor the IBM AIX server for I/O usage, memory usage, CPU usage, network usage, storage usage? (3 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi
I am trying to send mail to an email id having ampersand in it.
Like abc.&.xyz@abc.com
But it is not being sent.
I also tried prefixing backslash before and after ampersand
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8. HP-UX
how can I find cpu usage memory usage swap usage and
I want to know CPU usage above X% and contiue Y times and memory usage above X % and contiue Y times
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logical volume usage above X % and number of Logical voluage above
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9. Programming
In my program, I'm using argc and argv to accept command line arguments. However, if I have to get the '&' to work i.e. make it run the child as a background process, do I have to write some special code in C or does Unix handle it automatically? If I have to add the special code, how does it look... (2 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
What is the & for in Unix?? say for example that you have a line in a shellscript that will startup a executable and you have the ampersand at the end of the line, what is it for??
any info you could spare would be much appreciated
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