Hello, Do you know how to extract attachments from a raw mail message on Unix? I want to do it from shell script (ksh). The mail file is the raw e-mail with headers and encoded attachments.. PS: I can't use perl! Thx. ...
I'm using Korn Shell on Solaris and currently my PS1 env var is: PS1="${HOSTNAME}:\${PWD} \$ " And the prompt displays: hostname:/full/path/to/current/directory $ However, I'd like it to display: hostname:directory $ In other words, how can I display just the hostname and the name of the current directory, i.e. tmp or ~ or public_h...
I've got a folder that's got a whole lot of folders inside, which each contain a movie file. Now I want to be able to see all these movies at one time (but I have to preserve the folder structure) so I wanted to symlink them all to the top level folder (flat view in Directory Opus would be the go here, but I'm on a mac). Here's my attemp...
Here's the situation : I am writing a SH deployment script that will deploy a website with an RSYNC command in CYGWIN. After the installation, I want to send an e-mail to the development team to say that a deployment has been made with some details. I will use "exim" to send the mail from CYGWIN. The thing is that, exim is only optio...
I am trying to talk to a SCO Unix box through the Serial Port where there an existing application. I need to figure out what parameters the application set the serial port too. This is an older non-GUI version of Unix so I need to be able to do this from the command line. I know it involves using /dev/tty* however I am having difficul...
Hi, I have two linux machines, on which unix sort seems to behave differently. I believe I've narrowed it down to the treatment of the underscore character. If I run sort tmp, where tmp contains the following two lines: aa_d_hh aa_dh_ey one machine outputs aa_d_hh aa_dh_ey (i.e. '_' precedes 'h') while the other outputs aa_dh_e...
I am stuck with that task. I've written svn post-commit hook, that should update working copy on server, if something was changed. But seems to be it doesn't have permissions on that folder, but I've set them to allow everybody to write and read there. So here is the test script: #!/bin/sh REPOS="$1" REV="$2" DIR="/root/root/trunk" ...
I'm trying to install a piece of software (moddims) that depends on "Imagemagick 6.3.9+" - I tried installing the latest version of ImageMagick (6.5.4-5) but got the following error when I tried to "make" moddims: mod_dims_ops.c: In function ‘dims_smart_crop_operation’: mod_dims_ops.c:34: error: too few arguments to function ‘ParseGravi...
I'm trying to do something like this: sed 's/#REPLACE-WITH-PATH/'`pwd`'/' Unfortunately, I that errors out: sed: -e expression #1, char 23: unknown option to `s' Why does this happen? ...
Consider the input: =sec1= some-line some-other-line foo bar=baz =sec2= c=baz If I wish to process only =sec1= I can for example comment out the section by: sed -e '/=sec1=/,/=[a-z]*=/s:^:#:' < input ... well, almost. This will comment the lines including "=sec1=" and "=sec2=" lines, and the result will be something like: #=sec...
Hello! I'm implementing persistent large constant arrays via mmap. Is there any tips and tricks or gotchas one should be aware when using mmap? ...
What are the rules surrounding Python threads and how Unix signals are handled? Is KeyboardInterrupt, which is triggered by SIGINT but handled internally by the Python runtime, handled differently? ...
o Sun OS, UTS, AIX etc. But, when the same program is run with HP UX on the other end, we are unable to receive the response from the HP UX box (B.11.31 O/S). sSocket = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,0); connect(sSocket,(struct sockaddr *)&sin,sizeof(sin); ierr = read(sSocket,szBuffer,BUF_LEN-1); When the read is called, we get jun...
Thanks to a nice post at http://murphymac.com/tree-command-for-mac/, I have my long lost linux command tree so I can see the complete directory tree with a single command. I've implemented it via a function in my .bash_profile like this... function tree { find ${1:-.} -print | set -e "s;[^/]*/; ;g" } ...but what I would like is a v...
I was reading the SQLite FAQ, and came upon this passage: Threads are evil. Avoid them. I don't quite understand the statement "Thread are evil". If that is true, then what is the alternative? My superficial understanding of threads is: Threads make concurrence happen. Otherwise, the CPU horsepower will be wasted, waiting for (...
I'm looking for some simple tasks like listing all the running process of a user, or kill a particular process by pid etc. Basic unix process management from Java. Is there a library out there that is relatively mature and documented? I could run a external command from the JVM and then parse the standard output/error but that seems like...
I tried to insert a text to the first line of a file using sed. I do this inside a bash script. But why it hangs at the line of sed execution? #! /bin/bash # Command to execute # ./mybashcode.sh test.nbq nbqfile=$1 nbqbase=$(basename $nbqfile nbq) taglistfiletemp="${nbqbase}taglist_temp" taglistfile="${nbqbase}taglist" ./myccod...
I'd like to use alias to make some commands for myself when searching through directories for code files, but I'm a little nervous because they start with ".". Here's some examples: $ alias .cpps="ls -a *.cpp" $ alias .hs="ls -a *.h" Should I be worried about encountering any difficulties? Has anyone else done this? ...
I would like to know, if there is a way to print the pipes associated with a process, like "ipcs -s" for semaphores. ...
On UNIX, I can, for example, tell the OS that the mapping will be needed in the future with posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED). It will then read-ahead the data if it feels so. How to tell the access intend to Windows ? ...