I have couple hundreds of UNIX machine, i need to change a user password remotely every 3 month. I don't have the admin privilege. What i do right now is, i log in through ssh into every syst...
Hi,
In the attached server.c and client.c code snippets, if I don't use
bzero,
then,
at the client side, some extra/strange characters appear at the end
of client.txt.
I want to know w...
Dear All,
Am writing a shell script and using awk for special text processing from a file.
Can anyone of you tell me how to read and write to the same file using awk or sed? This is very ...
I have a file that looks like this:
Mary=Ann
Ann=Mary
Fake=Fake
Joe=John
Doe=Doe
I want to find Fake=Fake and insert another line before it. This change then needs to be writte...
Hi,
I want to copy my archive logs to another server through ftp. From the other server I want the archive logs to be gzipped and then copy the gzip files to a DR(disaster recovery server) ...
How do I force a carriage return when using mail in Linux or Unix? I've tried \n, \r, <\br> but these values just show up when I receive the email. The carriage returns show up if I hit the ...
I have 100 files looking like this.
<html>
<body>
.....
</body>
</html>
---
I need to add the below line right above the <body> line in each of the above 100 files.
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=...
Hi,
How can I make awk treat a double quoted data as one field only?
For example:
Input:
name, "street, country, zip", age, occupation
Output
$1 = name
$2 = street,...
I need to list the full paths to subdirectories within a given directory in Unix. Here's what I'm using to find the directories:
cd /usr/test
find * -type d
This give me the followi...
#!/bin/sh
#!/bin/stty
PATH=/notes/nep/:
PS1="alex: "
CDPATH=:$HOME
export PATH PS1 CDPATH
stty kill '^u'
===========================
-bash-3.2$ ./files.txt
./files.txt: line 8: st...
Hi Experts.
Need put in a cron job a script that checks for the db2 processes every 5 minutes and pages me when it is down?(when the process are down). Please can some one write executable...
Hi all,
i have this sed line below whcih is working fine.
echo "enter name"
read name
echo "enter shell"
read shell
sed -n "/$name/s/^\(.*:\).*$/\1$shell/p" /etc/passwd
The prob...
Hi,
I have a system where many guys have root access. I want to have a unix script that emails/alert me when some one writes or changes the /etc/hosts file.
I can't find example in this site about reading from 2 pipes. One of the pipe will be read and the other pipe used for writing.
I understand in the c program, I will need to do the followi...
I need to write a code that pass the output of "ls -l" back to parent using pipe. The ls- l will be executed by child after the fork process. Previously I succeeded in using fork() and execl t...
#!/bin/sh
#!/$ALEX:/usr/ucb:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/Users/alex/bin
ALEX=$ALEX:/usr/ucb:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/Users/alex/bin:
echo $ALEX
====================================================...
Experts,
I have a large file with many duplicates which i need to cleanse before i load it into the database to do some further ETL.
input file
---------------------------------
row ...
Hi,
I have posted a question few days ago for how to kick off a command (ssh $host "command...").
Someone suggest me to do the following:
#!/bin/sh
for host in `cat /list/of/hosts`
...
I am just curious on how to read the whole row in Unix using ksh ?..
Dear All,
I m trying to execute this command
X60=$(($1 * 60))
error showing : operand expected (error token is " * 60")
TOTMINUTES=$(($X60 / $2))
error : operand expected (error token i...
I need to create a cshell program (UNIX) which should create a log for ftp connection successfull , imagine if i try to connect a non existent ip it should log the error unknown host , if su...
hi unix gurus!!!
im stumped on a simple solution for this.
for an/etc/hosts file that contains entries in format:
IPAddress <space> Hostname <newline>
Example:
127.0.0.1 localhost
169....
Hi,
Our Company is using Clear Case as version control system. But now we have to migrate the repository to CVS. I want to know is there any way to do such kind of migration and how effectiv...
I want to know how to read the path column from one of the CSV file in unix ?
Before I create my own utility in Java I wanted to reach out to some UNIX people to see if this may already exist with commands. I am a novice when it comes to UNIX and scripting but for this ...
