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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi! I'm trying to do this:
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I'm using seq for this:
seq 1 20 > filename.txt
How do I get the "-"? I've tried -f per man but can't get anything to work. Also, is there an easier or better way than using sequence? Thanks! (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: TonyBe
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I've FTPed some text files from windows to my Linux workstation. I'm finding that the characters for quotes (") have been replaced with control characters <93> and <94>. and apostrophes (') have been replaced with what looks like control character <92>.
I have attempted the following... (15 Replies)
Discussion started by: larryjmoon
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
pattern matching porblem.
I have a file with lines like this:
hdisk2 blah 03
hdisk3 blah 03
hdisk21 blat 06
hdisk23 blah 06
hdisk210 blat 06
So I want to grep for just hdisk2, but I get back as you would expect
hdisk2
dhsik21
hdisk23
hdisk210
I tried several... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: adder2
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm looking to write a script that takes a certain directory and gzips all its files that are older than 2 days. I've done some research but for the life of me, I can't even get any files gzipped. Any help would be greatly appreciated! (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: adrockrocks
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi everybody:
Could anybody tell me if I have several files which each one it has this pattern name:
name1.dat name2.dat name3.dat name4.dat name10.dat name11.dat name30.dat
If I would like create one like:
name_total.dat
If I do:
paste name*.dat > name_total.dat (15 Replies)
Discussion started by: tonet
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file name in this format
ABC_WIRE_TRANS_YYYYMMDD_00.DAT
I need to cut out the _00 out of the file name everytime. It could be _00, _01,_02, etc ....
How do I cut it out to look as follows?
ABC_WIRE_TRANS_YYYYMMDD.DAT (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: lesstjm
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am trying to check through all of a certain type of file in all main directories, and find the top 10 that are taking up the most space. How can I do that? I was thinking like du *.file | sort -n | head (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: wallacer
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
this is the simple question, please help me!
the question is: how to send exactly 50 ICMP Echo request packets with 500 bytes of payload to 202.139.129.221?
I tried to use ping -F 500 202.139.129.221, but it didn't work.
Thanks! (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: kikikaka
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I know the Sun Solaries versions are ( 2.3 , 2.4 , 2.5 ... 7 , 8 ) .
But some times I see sun os v5.x what does it mean ??
also what is the last new machine for sun and what are its details specifications .
Thanks (3 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
Simple question. How do I convert a unix text file to a dos text file?
Thanks
Helen (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Bab00shka
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