I want to display all files and directories and sort by date (similar to dir /od in Windows). Is there a way? If it can't be done with ls or if I have to pipe the putout to some other command,...
Hi,
I am wondering how can I exclude a directory from a tar file?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Looking for syntex for mailx command to have file go as an attachment.
When sending file as text I type
mailx -s "My Email Topic" johndoe@somesite.com < mytext.txt
and the text appears as t...
Hi all,
Actually what is the different of command: "init 6" and "reboot"?
I checked the manual, these two commands are also for reboot use. If I reboot the server in routine weekly duty,...
i am trying to check if a file exists before continuing with my script but it is not working.
if [ -e $filename ]
then
file_menu #calls the function file_menu if file exists
else
ech...
hai friends,
Is there any command in unix to find the Oracle version number of a oracle that set in the ORACLE_HOME environment variable.
Thanks
I have a text file im trying to parse out information after a certain line with a keyword. After this keyword all the information
below it is important to me, but for some reason its strippin...
Hi,
I need to write a generic installation script. So for example we would run a set of sql scripts, so there would be a file with all the scripts to run in and the installation script wou...
Is there an easy way to convert GMT to say eastern within a shell script? Can someone provide an example?
thanks
Hi,
I have a unix shell script (csh) that accepts a filename as an input.
In the script I want to be extract the first 3 characters of the filename (not the content of the file) so that ...
Dear every expert,
How to create a script to automatic telnet to a host?
Thank You!
In unix mks shell the following error occurs
$ seq=07
$ seq=`expr ${seq} + 1`
$ echo $seq
8
$ seq=08
$ seq=`expr ${seq} + 1`
expr: non-numeric argument "08" <=====
for 08 and 09...
I have a script that is run from "/logs/Portal" that removes ALL files in the "/logs/Portal/archive" directory older than 10 days. Here is the syntax: rm -f `find archive -type f -mtime +10 ...
I'm trying to backup a SCO UnixWare 7.1.0 system from the shell using find/cpio. Trouble is I don't want to backup one very large directory and I wondered if there is 'find' syntax to do this?...
I need a cool find command which can FIND a particular string only (particular word only eg. "foo" not foo@yahoo.com) in directories/sub directories and output only the list of files con...
OK.. I'm sure this question is very basic to most of you. .Just trying to get an understanding..
I have a bff file that I downloaded from the IBM website called perl.libext.2.0.56.0.bff . T...
I want to insure upper case and/or lower case in certain situations, mostly for parameters to a script.
I saw this on EE but it didn't seem to work:
paramL=${param} | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'
H...
1. I would like to check the occupied port being used and the appplication who use them?
2. Would like to check the free port available for usage.
Dear experts,
I would like to know as a regular unix user, how what commands can get the information of HP-UX system
CPU clock speed (in MHz or GHz),
memory size (in MB or GB),
swap s...
I have a .txt file with a bunch of file names in it(new line terminated). These files are in the same directory as the .txt file is in. I want to copy all these files to a sub directory. So I ...
I have a user that wants to ftp a XLS file into Unix (solaris), I need a way to convert it from XLS to CSV. What can I use in Solaris Unix that can do this for me, or what kind of program do I...
HI
I need to search a string in a file(unix) where ever it occurs,which has space as delimiter and convert that string to lower case
ex: File content:
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I need to decrypt a password stored in /etc/passwd.
Is there a way to do this?
I thought there might be tools that do brute force on it.
(since unix passwd encryption is a one way encrypt).
Hello everyone!
This is a novice's question, but until now I didn't have the chance to do it. It is GNU's file, of course. Let me know which command to use. Thank you!
Mitsuru
