Hi all, I am new to unix and am using sun solaris (v10 i think) . I have my shell set as korn shell . i am wondering how to make the arrow keys and delete key work in the command line . I have done set -o emacs and the backspace works , but not the arrow keys and the delete keys . Also is it possible to set the up and down arrow key to...
Anybody can tell me how to install a third app to iphone? I want to use shell script,but I can't use fork(),Anybody has an idea? ...
Hi, How do I get the correct $USER if I run a shell script with sudo ? I run them as postinstall scripts in a Mac install package, where they are being sudo-ed automatically, but I need to do stuff with the username. $HOME is correct, though. The inelegant method would be to extract the name from the home path, but I wonder if there ...
Hi, I'd like a command that ssh'es into a machine, runs a command (cd or execute a script or su), and then gives me the shell. Passing a command to ssh seems to always exit. Some examples of what I'm looking for: 'ssh me@machine1 "./executeMyScript && cd /developmentDirectory"' and then it gives me my shell back. The reasons I want to...
What is the correct way to parse a string using regular expressions in a linux shell script? I wrote the following script to print my SO rep on the console using curl and sed (not solely because I'm rep-crazy - I'm trying to learn some shell scripting and regex before switching to linux). json=$(curl -s http://stackoverflow.com/users/fl...
I feel like this should be simple, but can't figure it out: What's the bash command(s) to look through a folder and open the largest file using VIM? ...
I need an Eclipse Plugin run Shell Scripts under Linux. I have a beautiful Rsync Script and i want a Button in Eclipse to activate it. The best Solution would be if the rsync Shell Script was also activated when i was saving Stuff, so maybe i can add a Script Builder or something like that. Anyone has a clue for both of the Solutions? ...
Is there way to invoke a CakePHP console shell on server without shell access? I have written a shell for performing some once off (and hence not a cron task) post DB upgrade tasks. I could always just copy the logic into a temporary controller, call its actions via http and then delete it, but was wondering if there was a better way to...
shell>/bin/date -d "091029 20:18:02" +%s 1256827682 Similarly I created shell script: #My.sh myDate=`date +'%y%m%d_%H%M%S'` myDate1=`echo $myDate | sed 's/_/ /g'` myDate2=`echo $myDate1 | sed 's/\([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\) \([0-9][0-9]\)\([0-9][0-9]\)\([0-9][0-9]\)/\/bin\/date -d "\1 \2:\3:\4" +%s/'` print $myDate2 `$myDate2` ...
I'm trying to locate files with the same name and delete all of the smaller sized copies, leaving only the largest. For example: test.jpg = 2kb, test.jpg=9kb, test.jpg=5kb. The 2kb and 5kb files would get deleted, leaving just the 9kb. I've tried a couple of GUI programs to do this and they were no help, as you had to delete everything m...
I've written a simple KShell script to kick off a background task #/bin/ksh #startMonitoring ./detectFile /usr/local/data/testFile > fileHistory & I run it with the following command startMonitoring When I run jobs I get no results, but the command is running and shows up in ps: 512232 pts/0 0:34 /bin/ksh ./detectFile /usr/...
I was hoping: cp -R src/prog.js images/icon.jpg /tmp/package would yield a symmetrical structure in the destination dir: /tmp | +-- package | +-- src | | | +-- prog.js | +-- images | +-- icon.jpg but instead, both of the files are copied into /tmp/package. A flat copy. (This is on OSX). ...
How can I recursively change xxx-xxx_[a-zA-Z]+_\d+_(\d+)\.jpg into $1.jpg? ...
I’m trying to write my first script to search for a given pattern in text file named test. Here is the script: #! /bin/csh echo -n "enter pattern: " set pattern = $< foreach word (`cat test`) echo $word | egrep $pattern end When I try to run it I get the message foreach: No match found. I suspect the problem is ca...
I wrote this script which counts occurrences of particular pattern in a given file. However if text file contains square brackets or curly braces shell outputs a message "Missing }". Here is the script: #!/bin/csh @ count=0 foreach word ( `cat test` ) if (`echo $word | egrep -c 'int'`) then @ count= $count + 1 endif ...
I'm using python 2.5 in windows on a macbook pro with IDLE. How do I get previously typed commands in the python shell? In other operating systems I've managed to do this using 'ctrl' + 'up arrow' or a similar combination. I've tried all likely combinations without success. Thanks. ...
Is is possible to print the execution time of a shell command with following combination? root@hostname:~# "command to execute" && echo "execution time" ...
I need to filter all lines with words starting with a letter followed by zero or more letters or numbers, but no special characters (basically names which could be used for c++ variable). egrep '^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*' This works fine for words such as "a", "ab10", but it also includes words like "b.b". I understand that * at the end ...
I have a log file from rsync command with progress on. When running this progress updates the display information on the same line. When I capture the output from this command I get a file that displays normally with cat on a terminal (all the backspaces and re-edits are replayed) but I want to be able to use grep on the file and proc...
Hello, i am testing with the shell script below: #!/bin/ksh -x instance=`echo $1 | cut -d= -f2` if [ $instance == "ALL" ] then echo "strings matched \n" fi It's giving this error in the if condition: : ==: unknown test operator is == really not the correct syntax to use? I am running on the command line as below test_lsn_2 INST...