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• averaging

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 167
  Hello all, Im trying to perform an averaging procedure which selects a selection of rows, average the corresponding value, selects the next set of rows and average the corresponding values etc. The data below illustrates what I want to do. Given two columns (day and value), I want to perform an annual average. This ...
  4 hours ago

• VSFTPD

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 167
  Hi, I am using VSFTPD. I have instructed it to send all logging informartion to /var/log/messages. I would like it to record the names of users who have failed loggin attempts. I have read up on it but have not found out how to do this. Any ideas?
  12 hours ago

• Unzip subfolder to some path.

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 167
  I have a zip file (somezipfile.zip) with the following contents in it: dir1/subdir1/somefile1.txt dir1/subdir2/somefile2.txt dir1/subdir2/somefile3.txt dir1/somefile3.txt dir1/somefile4.txt dir2/somefile5.txt dir2/somefile6.txt Lets say I unzip this to my home directory so now I have: ...
  13 hours ago

• LOcation of File

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 167
  Hii I need to find the location of a file . i know the beginning of the name but i dont know the directory its saved in how can i find the location ??? Please help :confused:
  18 hours ago

• File Creation notification

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 167
  Hello, Please help about writing a process that will be automatically notified by file creation in a predefined directory. Some code will appreciated. Thanks for all.
  18 hours ago

• sorting question

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 167
  i have list of files: Wang CVPR 09.pdf Yaacob AFGR 99.pdf Shi CVPR 04.pdf ..... how can i sort with single line this directory so the output will be in the next format: \t \t - t is tab (its sort by the year) example: 1999 CVIU Yaacob 2004 CVPR Shi 2009 CVPR Wang ....
  1 day ago

• configure wifi throught console problem, GUI is OK

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 167
  Hi gurus, I am trying to connect to wifi access point with terminal, I set up my own access point (no encryption or MAC filters) I ran followings commands Code: $ sudo iwlist eth1 scanning eth1      Scan completed :           Cell 01 - Address: 00:11:2F:A2:99:1C                     ...
  1 day ago

• Communism in the USA

  
  One Man's Thoughts — Authority: 430
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  1 day ago

• How to get the last field of a string(pattern)?

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 167
  b= find =/home/root/dir1/*.xml | xargs grep | cut -d ":" -f1 | uniq From a folder that has many files, I am trying to get the filename which has in it using the above command. But while giving the result, the variable b is showing the path also. Ex: b=/homt/root/dir1/gg.xml. How can I just get the value gg.xml in ...
  2 days ago

• How do I get the last login time of a particular user?

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 167
  How do I get the last login time of a particular user?:confused:
  2 days ago

• How can I list the file under a directory both in alphabetical and in reverse alphabetical order?

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 167
  How can I list the file under current directory both in alphabetical and in reverse alphabetical order?
  2 days ago

• how can I append a text at end of file after displaying the file

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 167
  I have a file "sample.txt" with the content as below: Hi This is a Sample Text. I need a single command using cat which serve the following purpose. 1.display the contents of sample.txt 2.append some text to it 3. and then exit But, all should be served by a sinle command.:confused:
  2 days ago

• Ways to know about a command.......

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 167
  What are the ways to know about a command?
  2 days ago

• What are five UNIX principles?

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 167
  What are the 5 unix principles ?
  2 days ago

• ping temporary off and down

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 167
  We have a sun server which when pinged temporarily responds and sometimes dont respond. Which problems may it is facing?
  2 days ago

• Compare two files using awk or sed, add values in a column if their previous fields are same

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 167
  Hi All, I have two files file1: abc,def,ghi,5,jkl,mno pqr,stu,ghi,10,vwx,xyz cba,ust,ihg,4,cdu,oqw file2: ravi,def,kishore ramu,ust,krishna joseph,stu,mike I need two output files as follows In my above example, each row in file1 has 6 fields and each row in file2 has 3 fields. I should compare field2 in both ...
  2 days ago

• command to find all soft links in a directory

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 167
  I need the command to find all soft links in a directory. Can someone please help. Thank you.
  3 days ago

• Loop on array variable returning error: 0 not found

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 167
  Im guessing i have a syntax error. Im not sure it gets past the the while condition. I get an error 0 not found. Simple loop not sure what Im doing wrong. Code: #!/usr/bin/ksh set -A MtPtArray /u03 /u06  tUbound=${#MtPtArray[*]}  echo $tUbound  i=0  while ($i -lt $tUbound)  do   print ${MtPtArray[1]} ...
  3 days ago

• BRU -T option

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 167
  Can someone give me an example how to use bru command line with the -T option? Thanks,
  3 days ago

• awk Command help

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 167
  Hi Everybody I am a newbee to the unix scripting. i had a string like Id: 1234567, length 7 can you please help me to get only 1234567 (no coma) from string. thanks in advance.
  3 days ago

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