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• read from character 23 through character 32

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 172
  I need a one-liner that will output characters 23 through 32 from a user defined record. Thanks, Kenny.
  1 hour ago

• Put characters of string in new line-perl

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 172
  I am writing a script in which one of the requirement is to accept a string and put each character of the string in a new line ?. I would be glad if someone could help. Thank you in advance.
  1 hour ago

• Log in, run program

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 172
  Hey, im editing the passwd file so that when the user ben logs in it runs my assign program. I changed the last column from Quote: /home/ben:/bin/bash to Quote: /home/ben:/home/ben/assign Then when i log in i get... Quote: /home/ben/assign: ...
  1 hour ago

• accessing windows files from unix

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 172
  Hello, I am new to Unix and I would like to know how can I see my files from Windows desktop. When I type ls, I can see a list of files-directories including Desktop, but when I cd Desktop, and then ls there is a message Link to old Desktop. (The big picture is to build a sundials library but the sundials-2.4 file ...
  2 hours ago

• Array declaration problem

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 172
  Hi all, I would like to declare a vector of variables and access them sequentially. Here is my code Code: ARRAY_CT="0001000000 0000100000 0000010000" ELEMENTS_CT=${#ARRAY_CT[@]}  echo $ELEMENTS_CT        for (( j=1;j    echo ${ARRAY_IS[${j}]} done But it is not working. Can anybody help ls? ...
  4 hours ago

• “Fashion for Dummies” by Jill Martin

  
  The Fashionable Gal — Authority:
  “In Fashion for Dummies, fashion expert and three-time Emmy-nominated television personality Jill Martin and co-author Pierre Lehu help readers build a stylish and functional wardrobe suitable for every occasion.  Whether it’s a holiday-chic cocktail party, an 11:00 AM wedding in February, or just an everyday ...
  6 hours ago

• How I Get into the Shower, and a lot of stuff in German

  
  askHowie.com - AdWords Help, Advice and Tools — Authority: 100
  Last fall I presented at the very first European AdWords conference, AdWords Days 2009, in Cologne Germany. Heres a trailer for AdWords Days 2010, which takes place 1-2 June 2010, also in Cologne. My presentation was in English, which considering the only German I know is the Ode To Joy from Beethovens 9th and "die ...
  7 hours ago

• Sort comand for Date

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 172
  Hi All, I have two questions for sorting based on date. Sample input: Code: 2009/07/23 11:48:44|alpha 2009/07/23 11:48:44|gamme 2009/07/23 11:48:44|beta 2009/07/23 11:48:44|test 2009/07/23 11:48:44|data 2009/07/23 11:48:44|hello 2009/07/23 11:48:44|cat Output: Code: 2009/07/23 11:48:44|alpha ...
  8 hours ago

• perl crontab entry not working

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 172
  Hi I have a perl script which used glance command to return all the processes with the thread count. It is working fine when it is executed as a command, but as a crontab entry, the perl script is not getting executed. thdcnt.pl #!/usr/bin/ perl my $cmd=`glance -bootup -adviser_only -syntax xxx/somefile -j 0 ...
  9 hours ago

• Thread count for a process id

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 172
  Hi, I want to know a command/program to get thread count for a process id in unix box. Please help me in this regard.
  9 hours ago

• Search linux which core version is 2.4.0

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 172
  I want to use linux which core version is 2.4.0,so I want to know which version linux contains core 2.4.0? Where can I get this version linux? Thanks
  11 hours ago

• Get First String in a file-Perl

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 172
  Is it possible, Using Perl script, to exit the program, when I get the first occurrence of a string. For eg, if I get a string "break" in a file (during parsing), i want to exit ! I tried using "filehandle". giving the string and file-name as commandline arguments.
  13 hours ago

• opening mulitple different videos with mplayer and placing them in x,y coordinates?

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 172
  howdy. can you place mplayer windows on the screen anywhere? i would like to open four movie files from command line and make them show up on screen like this ----- ----- | 1 | | 2 | ----- ----- | 3 | | 4 | ----- ----- hopefully my ascii representation makes some sense. and i would like to be able to swap any of ...
  17 hours ago

• help Me :(((( problems in shell))))

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 172
  hiiii this is the first time for me here >>> but really i have some problems for answers these things also understanding... Can any one help me? Write a simple shell as given in class. Your shell, called shell will read input lines from standard input, parse them into a ...
  19 hours ago

• New Book: Fashion For Dummies by Jill Martin

  
  The Fashionable Housewife — Authority: 584
  Fashion For Dummies is your full-color guide to building a fun, functional wardrobe. “In Fashion for Dummies, fashion expert and three-time Emmy-nominated television personality Jill Martin and co-author Pierre Lehu help readers build a stylish and functional wardrobe suitable for every occasion. Whether ...
  20 hours ago

• What prefix backslash does to command

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 172
  In unix when I run rm command, it asks for file removal confirmation e.g. rm netmail_log.csv rm: remove netmail_log.csv (yes/no)? n But if i prefix backslash to rm it does not ask for confirmation. Does anyone know what backslash does to command or shell ? e.g. \rm netmail_log.csv
  21 hours ago

• VIM add white spaces

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 172
  Hello, How do I adda two whitespaces at the begining of each lines between line 12 and line 90; something like :12,90 ??? Thanks!
  22 hours ago

• strings shows no strings?

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 172
  I ran a strings command on a binary file that contains text that I put in there, but doesnt return that it is in the file. Any help??? I used - strings filename Am I missing something??
  1 day ago

• Replace tab or any spaces with "

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 172
  my content: samaccountname employeeid useraccountcontrol description i want it to look like this: "samaccountname","employeeid","useraccountcontrol","description"
  1 day ago

• Kill child processes, when parent is "bash"

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 172
  Consider this simple command line Code: bash -c  echo $$ ; sleep 10000 This will print the newly created bash PID and sleep for a long time. If I go to another terminal and do something like Code: ps -flax | grep [s]leep Ill see something like Code: 501 92418 91910  0  0:00.00 ttys000    ...
  1 day ago

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