Summary: You know, I am a beginner too. I started out by borrowing RedHat Linux 7.1 and installing it on a couple of computers. I learned SMB, basic command...
Summary: I have a beginner's question about unix shell(csh). When I run following commmand from csh shell: %>set name = john %>echo $name %>john It works just ...
Summary: i'm needing help making unix accounts i'm a student and i've found out how to make regular accounts in unix but i need to use this page to go by.: ---...
Summary: I have a script that has to record it's actions in a log file. I'd like to ensure that it always writes to a log file that is in the same directory as...
Summary: Hi Nails and William, I'm a beginner in shell script. I downloaded William Robertson's shift_date script. I tried to study and understand it. But it i...
Summary: hey there. i am a beginner just like you. I found this book Your Unix: The Ultimate Guide by Sumitabha Das. The book covers a lot like from What is...
Summary: hi, i need a shell script to find the position of one or more words in one line of a file and then get a number/s which is/are located in the same pos...
Summary: ghostdog, The o/p i have pasted above from my SED command doesn't contain the $2 and $3 command line args, because i executed the command from the CL....
Summary: Well, there are quite a few Linux books-- some are excellent while others can be horrible. As a beginners guide, I'd recommend Mark Sobell's Practica...
Summary: Does anyone know how to write a script to find out if a particular user is logged in to unix and send a greeting if there logged in; otherwise, if the...
Summary: Hi Nails, How can we modify the above program if we want to go through each sub direcotry in that tree and check whether there exist any duplicates...
Summary: hello, for a beginner which falvor of Unix is ideal and what version? could you please also tell me the address of the site from where to download th...
Summary: You are right. That's my homework. I've been staring at them for three weeks. I believed that if my book knows how to complain, I am in the jail right...
Summary: I am writing a phone list utility. I want to ask the user for a name and number that they will input from the command line. I will then take this data...
Summary: I'm a windows 2000 user with a Quake 3 game server being hosted on a remote Linux machine. I've been playing around with telnetting over to the linux ...
Summary: Hi, I'm a beginner script user. It there any shell script example where I could reference on how to check a file in a directory is there before overwr...
Summary: Still can't get this to work: This is what I am trying to do 1) The fist file I am looking for is in this directory: xnet-stc/int/exe_inbound/histo...
Summary: If i try the -f option for awk, i get the "awk: can't open " error message The following awk statement works fine without the -f option `awk <$RULE...
Summary: I have used the following to compare script efficiency... #!/bin/sh # timer by stefan caunter # little efficiency script to display run # and cpu tim...
Summary: Hi there.. Masters of Unix/Linux i have a very simple ,and short question, and i hope you will be able to answer it for me . i just started to think ...
Summary: It is difficult to get answer for this question. Please select the advantage and disadvantage of stream based process may be it will help you. It is f...
Summary: try ugu.com they have a beginners section and if you look around inside the universe you will find lot's of tutorials for whatever flavor of UNIX that...
Summary: Hi, I have a modem on HP-UX 10 and users can logon by dial-in. My problem is: I want to set an idle time for the user who is logon from the modem. I c...
Summary: date +%j That returns today's Julian date, but I need to be able to convert the date from a file's timestamp to a Julian date. The timestamp of the f...
Summary: You can build a variable that sort can use; here is an example of sorting myfile with the first field: #!/bin/ksh str="1,1 my.file" sort -k $(echo "$s...
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