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Old 12-01-2006
Line Count & MAil Issues
Please help...I forgot how to do a linecount in Solaris. I'm list a report & I'm trying to count how many instances.

Also, I need to read & clean up mail for root. What directory is that again.

Thanks
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Old 12-01-2006
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Originally Posted by Remi
Please help...I forgot how to do a linecount in Solaris. I'm list a report & I'm trying to count how many instances.
instances? instances of what?
line count: 'wc -l < myFile'
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Originally Posted by Remi
Also, I need to read & clean up mail for root. What directory is that again.

Thanks
/var/mail/root
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Old 12-01-2006
Also, I need to read & clean up mail for root. What directory is that again
thanks!

/var/mail/root doesn't have anything in there, but I keep getting the "you have mail" message everytime I log in ....Is there any other place I can check..
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Old 12-02-2006
don't kno about sun , but check /var/adm/mail
 
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