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I need to write a script (in bash preferably) that will do the following; I have  smb share available to a user for intermittant ftp uploads to various sites. The dir structure is /ftpuploa...
Where could I find a RAR application for Linux (Fedora). Thank you.
Hi All, I have to use the fork command from within a shell script. I am not sure how to do this? Will I need to include something? Please help. Thanks, Pavan.
Hello there,     This must be a FAQ. I need to know how can I get the process id of the current pthread. When I call pthread_self() it returns pthread_t value (integer), which is different...
Hi everybody,       i am stucked doing a client-server program using raw sockets. I have Red Hat 8.0 Linux installed in my m/c and here is my client module (server also has the same problem) ...
Hello, i have a little problem with a script: This is the code: #!/bin/sh tempfile=$$.tmp exec 2> $tempfile answer="xxx" if [ -e psybnc ] ; then dialog  --title "You are using the c...
I need a 10ms sleep in Linux. I tried to use "nanosleep" to do that, but the minimum sleep time is always 20ms although I used sched_setscheduler to set real-time scheduling to SCHED_RR. Here'...
Hi Experts, I want shell script to read values in CSV(comma seperated) file. But not a perl script. I need shell script.  CSV file will looks as follows: --------------------------------...
I have a variable in a linux shell script which contains a file name (somefile.sql.gz). I need to trim the string to somefile.sql (basically remove the .gz). It seems like it would be simple, ...
Hello, I am trying to restrict user to their home  directory when they login remotely through sftp. I have followed all the steps specified in following URL. http://knol.google.com/k/dir...
I'm using cygwin (assuming the same thing will happen in Linux). When I use g++, some .h.gch file is generated after I getting some error message. Can any body tell me what are the content for...
I'm new to Linux and need to learn how to combine multiple text files into one.  In Windows, I can use the "copy" command with the + operator like this: copy file_a.txt + file_b.txt file_c.tx...
Hello, I'm fairly new to Linux and although I can find my away around the basics and understand a lot of the concepts, I'm having trouble putting together a shell script to perform what see...
Hi, I have developed some app that uses web broswer as user interface with some ActiveX controls, but now I am considering to support web broswers in Linux, what's the equivalence for Activ...
Hello,  How can I create a named pipe file in Linux? I have a named pipe files: ******************* usuario@R_xart:/var/run$ ls -l nvtv-* prw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 2004-...
Dear all. Simple question, how to combine logical expression in bash ? Here is my current code if [ -f the_script ]; then    if [ -x the_script ]; then           # do something    fi...
I have a c++ code that creates two threads. The program is running constantly, so I wanted to stop is by ctr+c (as opposed to kill, because I wanted to save some files and other logging stuff)...
I've tried to execute a few commands in Linux such as du, find and it shows /lib/ld-linux.so.1: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory . Could anyone tell me what I should do about t...
How do I go about writing a C GUI application for redhat. Is there an API or VB like toolkit I can use? Any useful links would be appreciated. Thanks, rd707
I want to zip lot of files residing in solaris and open in windows... I know how to get zipped files in solaris in windows by using ftp.. i want to know which is the options available to z...
Hi, I'm working on a program that has a Makefile that contains the following section: //------------ # Make command to use for dependencies MAKE=gmake # If no configuration is speci...
I have a large group of .cpp files I want to compile and link to gether into a single static library, which then can be linked into other projects, but I can't find the GCC command-line option...
I am trying to write a bash script to spawn X number of concurrent worker threads to munch through a long list of individual jobs.  The commands have varying run times and thus will complete ...
hi there I need help with the bash scripting.I am new to this scripting. I need a script which would find the size of file given to it as parameter,if the size of the input file is zero then...
I have a series of files named "BandPics 001.jpg" etc and I need to rename them to get rid of the space, using a Linux bash script, and give them a different prefix which is more descriptive, ...