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Okay...so I'm a newbie who struggled through a online C++ class and am now taking an online Unix class to complete my degree (thankfully not in programming :) What I'm working on an assignm...
I am trying to compile  the GMP library under windows 2000, using cygwin and mingW.  I know the platform is windows, but the IDE is posix.   The full error: checking for suitable m4... con...
I'm running a script in Unix that extracts data from Oracle and writes it to a file. At the top of the output file there is a message that says "stty: tcgetattr: A specified file does not ...
making a script to send a alert, can't quit figure out what to put in the  [ ] below command work ok if done on command line, just can't put it into a script the right way #!/bin/sh su ...
How do you write a function in ksh and pass it a parameter?  I have guessed something like this but haven't had success: #function my_function(ARG) { echo $ARG } #mainline my_function("...
can someone help with the script/command required to send a mail with attachment from a UNIX server to Windows mailbox.Is there any additional configuration that needs be done on the UNIX box ...
Unix does not clean up IPC resources (semaphores and shared memory) after a process crash. Is there a way to bypass the problem?
In the following program, if $RECV = 9252610000,  the output line is written.  However if $RECV = 925261CORP then no output is written. FILE UCSIN: ISA*00*          *00*          *08*020...
WHat is the end of line character in Linux, CR, LF, or a CRLF? Basil
Is there an equivalent of elseif (eg: "elif" in ksh, and "elsif" in Perl) in awk, or do I have to simulate it by coding an "if" within an "else"?
Hi, could anybody tell me on how to test whether a port is open or not. The script should read three values 1. hostname or IP address 2. lower limit of port number (ex:20001) 3. higher l...
I'm writing a backup routine to .tar the contents of selected directories.  That's the easy part.  Here's the problem. I was to EXCLUDE the directory 'logs' from all the selected directories t...
I have a comma delimited file created by SQLPLUS through an Unix Script.  It just so happens that the third field is a text field that has an incorrect CRLF sequence  embedded in it.  This is ...
I have the following long listing of files. 1.As you can see sometimes i see modification time of a file as May 23  2006, while other times i see it as Dec 28 20:20. Why so? 2.Also ther...
How do you split a ksh shell variable into an array with awk?   Perl version would be @a = split /:/, $ENV{'PATH'}. Thanks
In Stevens' book "Unix Network Programming" is the source code for an Internet ping client. The following part of the code, however, puzzles me: struct sockaddr_in     dest; ... host = gethostby...
I seem to recall a slightly different problem with "nohup" a year or two ago when processes died after logging out, and I was somewhat baffled as isn't the whole idea of nohup to allow them to...
Hi Experts, could you please help me to resolve little problem with TAR? I would like to untar my archive created with 'tar cvf my_file.tar *' into different location that it was created. Is...
How do I create and initialize an associative array. I tried : typeset -AE usage (where usage is the name of te array), but it shows me    typeset: bad option(s)   Urgent reply needed. ...
I am calculating usage of bandwidth from some ports pulled from a database. The data is in bps (bits per second). The total usage of all ports needs to be displayed in Mbps (Megabits per secon...
I am executing an unix script inside a sql script by passing some value to unix script as a parameter. SQL script: SQL_SCRIPT.sql host sh unix_script.sh par1 par2 UNIX Script: UNIX_SCRIP...
I've got a quick question regarding the connect() behavior in the following situation. In a client program I open a socket, set some options on it (KEEPALIVE, LINGER, REUSEADDR), set it to the...
I have the following Korn Shell script code: #!/bin/ksh cd "$1" if [[ -f $1$2 ]] then   #if file exists then get a count      a=`wc -l < "$1$2"`      if $a > 0 then         print 0 ...
The statement below is working fine, but I need to know the syntax for adding a CC mail address.      echo ${MESSAGE_ed} | mailx  -s "${SUBJECT_ed}" ${RECIPNT_ed} The variable that holds...
I'm trying to tail a log file, and pull out meaningful lines to save in a different file.  This command does what I want: tail -f log.file | grep '^\|' | grep "stockA\|stockB\|stockC\|stoc...