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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
I am really confused as to why a tool like fakechroot exists and what does it do.
Chroot is an ability only for root users, correct? Then a tool that allows to bypass that is clearly a security flaw, correct?
When and why would you need something like this?
Is there any relation between... (7 Replies)
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2. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi All,
Whenever i get 10 files(file names like sales*) then another file need to create.
May i know how to implement this in KSH. (4 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
i am a novice in scrpting and need your help on the following. i have a script that checks if a file exists:
if ; then
echo " Files exists"
else
echo " file not found"
fi
assuming the files does not exist ,, the script when run dusplays " file not found".. so far true. but when i... (2 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
How can I check and see if the first parameter is a file existing in the current path or it is a real file and user input some random name in an IF statement? (5 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi I need help to whit a script that start a program if a nother program is started first .
I thought something like this .
if then start program 2
Thanks (4 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have the following data stored in a file.
1 /home/file13 /home/file2
2 /home/file41 /home/file654
3 /home/file61 /home/file45
4 /home/file81 /home/file43
...
I want to print the first column provided the files represented by the second and third column exist.
How to do that? (3 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have the below script to check whether directory is exist or not , now I sure the directory /abc NOT exist , but when run the script , it still pop the result is "the directory exist" , could suggest what is wrong ? thx
ll -d /abc > /dev/null 2>&1
if
then
echo "the directory exist !!"
... (7 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have an extraordinary problem with a csh script.....(feel free to berate the use of this but I'm modifying an existing bunch of them)
Anyway, I have a master csh script which in turn calls a second csh script. This second csh script is below. Within this second script are two compiled C++... (1 Reply)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
somehow my user names and groups on one of our machines are changed to numbers 700, 701, etc.
thus, i can only ssh into this machine as root.
is there a way to migrate the user names and groups to this machine?
thanks! (3 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Is there a jumpstart equivalent tool in the linux environment? (1 Reply)
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