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I have flat file containg relative file names in a given directory on a Unix box.  I'd like to be able to tar up all these files using a loop that reads the file list.  I have tried this but o...
I have created the barcodes in pcl and postscript format. pcl Files are created . But i couldnt print the barcodes in laser printer. printer name is 'LexmarkProd' and "LASER-PROD". How should ...
I am a beginner with sed and shel scripting in general. I am trying to take this line :  "D:\SQL\Data\North_Data.mdf" and replace the "  with a single quote '  'D:\SQL\Data\North_...
I am writing a script to read a relative path from a text file, check to see if the file exists in the source directory, and then copy the file from source to desination. So far, I can read, c...
I'm trying to develop a script that will return a Dell system's warranty information by scraping this site: http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/my_systems_info/detail...
My Kix script returns the following, and I'm not sure why the %COMSPEC% at line 77 is invalid:Good day FigueroaDaniel because you have been selected as a member of the WDrive mapping pilot th...
Suppose I have an XML file named test.xml with this structure: <linkage id="X">      <target>AP_VENDOR</target>      <title>Parent Vendor</title>      <description>The parent of the specified Vendor...
Good afternoon all, I'm hoping someone could help me fix an issue I'm having with my code.  In the code below, I am trying to parse an file and run a series of SQL statements.   To do th...
This code works fine as long as the CurrentProject.path does not contain a comma.  If it does, it truncates at the comma.  I have no control over the name of the folder where the user will pla...
What are shell metacharacters like \ and >?
I have an awk script that is working fine, with one exception;  I have a linr in the input text that looks like this: For:      BLOOMINGDALES GN (0003) I need to assign just the store nu...
How do i print a uid_t variable?? I got this, i want to print in screen the uid_t variable: void user() { uid_t getuid(void); gid_t getgid(void);      if (Condition) {           printf("UID ...
Ok this is the error I get after running this in cygwin $ ./pull.sh ./pull.sh: line 6: [errlog: command not found Sending  "Rsync Transfer L..."  |***************************| 100% of 596 B...
hi -----script a.ksh---- multiple command ------ ================== =============== ssh username@servername <<EOT mulitple command         ---------script b.ksh--------      ...
Hey guys.  I need a shell script to create a TON of directories.  I'm trying to break down the images on my social networking site and figure I would do it by their ID number.  For example... ...
Does anybody know how you would write a shell script that would function like the 'find' command and not use find or locate, etc...? Script should have 2 args... 1st arg is directory where se...
Not sure I'm in the right area but I need to write a script using the unix finger command to list the userid of over 200 users on our database. I can do this individually by using: finger last...
This is a sample script from the clonezilla opensource project. I guess this will create a root and swap partition. With the swap partition size being "3000000". Basicaly what I wantin...
I have a directory "multimedia/archive" with many subdirectories named like this: "00000", "00001", ... ,"01075". The subdirectories contains different versions of many pictures. The director...
G'day All, I've a shell script which I need executed when the computer start's up. Been trying to get the login hooks to work under Mac OS 10.4.10, I've followed Apple's documentation w...
hi guys.. i want to do ssh and i want use same private & public( variable and alias) in remote machine. how can i declare those variable in alias?
Hi: My Server is a Linux Centos running Apache, Sendmail, etc. I need a Script or a series of commands (in Bash Shell, to issue from the command line) to process a "/etc/passwd" file, li...
I have created an outlook prf modification that I need to get out to all of my users.  I am trying to create some sort of logon script that will push this out.  The command is outlook.exe /imp...
SHELL SCRIPT:I have a file https.cfg in my local disk which contains three bytes.I have to read these three bytes from that file and I have to convert first two bytes to an integer so that I c...
How do you move up the directory tree in kixtart.  For example - shell "cmd.exe cd ..\%userprofile%\" returns an error - The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. Thi...