unix Questions

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I'm currently interesting in UNIX system. For IPC(Interprocess Communication), UNIX uses a file named socket. I understand it works like server-client model, write-end and read-end uses socket file...
Clyde asked 20/3, 2022 at 6:38

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I just need to append the string "eng" to many files names in same directory without changing its extension in MAC TERMINAL. I searched it for long time, i found mv command to rename files at once....
Homeric asked 19/6, 2014 at 8:14

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I need to change the order of a string in AIX, but with the command cut I can't do it Ex: echo FT0215202301.xml | cut -b 7-10,5-6,3-4 Result: 02152023 Expected: 20230215
Cesar asked 23/9, 2024 at 19:15

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Note:Overwriting of the symlinks occurs from tar version 1.27 or higher Below I am trying to show what exactly the problem is. contents of the dirtmp1 file1.txt file2.txt code to create the ab...
Achernar asked 24/3, 2015 at 17:24

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Is there any way to rename a file while keeping the original creation / modification/ read time? This is in Solaris. Thanks in advance.
Gamester asked 21/6, 2011 at 8:24

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Ok so I am writing a shell script to delete a directory but only if there are no files inside. what I want to do is have an if statement that will check if there are files in the directory and if ...
Lindo asked 16/4, 2014 at 23:8

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I have a program that saves many large files >1GB using fwrite It works fine, but unfortunately due to the nature of the data each call to fwrite only writes 1-4bytes. with the result that the writ...
Chiastic asked 27/11, 2012 at 16:7

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for parentDir in * do cd "$parentDir" for subDir in * do cd "$subDir" for file in *.* do convert "$file" -crop 120x95 summary_"$file" convert "$file" -crop 160x225 detail_"$file" done mkd...
Yun asked 24/10, 2016 at 18:8

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When working in Unix with various programming languages I often use Kate as my primary editor. It has a really nice function of being able to open a built-in terminal window which is quite useful. ...
Scatter asked 23/11, 2009 at 12:37

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I have a very large file, over 100GB (many billions of lines), and I would like to conduct a two-level sort as quick as possible on a Unix system with limited memory. This will be one step in a lar...
Scepter asked 12/8, 2013 at 17:17

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I have pattern like below hi hello hallo greetings salutations no more hello for you I am trying to replace all newlines with tab using the following command sed -e "s_/\n_/\t_g" but it's not...
Ecthyma asked 24/10, 2009 at 11:23

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I am fairly new to running scripts in UNIX/Linux. I have a .env file containing environment information and a .sh script containing folder creations etc for that environment. How would I run the s...
Incompetent asked 11/2, 2016 at 18:45

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I found the text browser w3m which is the best so far in my opinion. However, it is main problem is Javascript. I cannot see comments at all in Stackoverflow when I use it. I am not sure what is ...
Leomaleon asked 19/4, 2009 at 1:27

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I need to find the OS name and version on a Unix/Linux platform. For this I tried the following: lsb_release utility /etc/redhat-release or specific file But it does not seem to be the best sol...
Supplejack asked 18/11, 2014 at 6:48

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Is there a convention for documenting shell scripts' parameters? For example: #!/usr/bin/env bash # <description> # # Usage: # $ ./myScript param1 [param2] # * param1: <description> ...
Flap asked 26/3, 2009 at 22:21

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The following screen appears when run [alternatives --config mta]. There are 2 programs which provide 'mta'. Selection Command ----------------------------------------------- + 1 /usr/sbin/sendm...
Helminth asked 10/10, 2013 at 3:12

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Im trying to do a full back up and copy over all files from one directory into another directory #!/bin/bash #getting files from this directory PROJECTDIRECTORY=/../../Project3 #Copi...
Haycock asked 2/12, 2013 at 8:45

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How can I display only different rows using diff in a separate file? For example, the file number 1 contains the line: 1;john;125;3 1;tom;56;2 2;jack;10;5 A file number 2 contains the following...
Jaundice asked 30/4, 2012 at 7:10

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So I want to set some paths differently depending on the host, but unfortunately it's not working. Here is my script: if [$HOSTNAME == "foo"]; then echo "success" else echo "failure" fi This i...
Dapsang asked 12/4, 2013 at 13:54

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I need to check the duration of a group of audio files. Is there a simple way to do this on the unix command-line? > duration * I have the amazing SoX app which has an option called stats tha...
Numidia asked 19/1, 2012 at 20:47

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When I start my tcp server from my bash script, I need to kill the previous instance (which may still be listening to the same port) right before the current instance starts listening. I could us...
Hanzelin asked 27/7, 2013 at 5:48

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We have a shell script which is run by CRON. The shell script in turn runs a python script which downloads files from an FTP server and then runs a java log processor on those files. The process ru...
Geerts asked 1/5, 2015 at 0:29

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I'm looking to create a hash with sha256 using openssl and C++. I know there's a similar post at Generate SHA hash in C++ using OpenSSL library, but I'm looking to specifically create sha256. UPDA...
Alcazar asked 14/2, 2010 at 19:14

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I'm trying to do the opposite of this question, replacing Unix line endings with Windows line endings, so that I can use SQL Server bcp over samba to import the file. I have sed installed but not d...
Prearrange asked 5/10, 2009 at 18:30

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How do I remove the first 5 characters in each line in a text file? I have a file like this: 4 Alabama 4 Alaska 4 Arizona 4 Arkansas 4 California 54 Can 8 Carolina 4 Colorado 4 Connectic...
Papst asked 10/2, 2015 at 0:7

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