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Hello everyone. I realize that this may be an elementary question, but all of my searches for answers have not given me a satisfactory result. In my ubuntu server machine, I typed in [after examining my stty settings] `werase='^I'` as I was configuring the terminal to my likings. All was …

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garrett@mint-desktop /var/www/html/udemy/php-oop/gallery/backups $ tar --exclude-tag-all=backups -cf lesson20.tar ../* tar: Removing leading `../' from member names I have an empty file called backups in my backups directory to keep the tar file from trying to backup itself. Does anyone know why I'm getting this output? -> `tar: Removing leading ../' from …

Hi, I have built a shell extension handler, using this as a template: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/CppShellExtContextMenuHandl-410a709a In this instance, it registers with a ".ts" extension: hr = RegisterShellExtContextMenuHandler(L".ts", CLSID_LNtoALL, L"CppShellExtContextMenuHandler.LNtoALL"); The project compiles fine, and the registration works also. But on one PC, it fails to load (the context menu for .ts …

Hello, I have written the basic shell script "myscript.sh", which prints Hello World. I want to call this script using PL/SQL. Please let me know the procedure(steps) for the same. Thank you.

Hi everybody. I'm using python to create sql database. I created a test.db file and then made a table on it with the name "fims" and inserted some data on it.... title text, year text and director text. And then set values for them. Now when i type "sqlite3 test.db" …

Hi friends! I'm coding a program; i have a Tkinter window with a view button and i can add names with entry box and add button into a list that will be saved on a db file. Now i want the program to show the list names otomaticly when the …

Hey guys, I have this script that does count one year of files, 2014, but when it comes to this year, everything messes up. How could I count properly for each year in the same script ? In the attached screenshot it's obvious that I would only need 2014 - …

By examining the first, third and last (seventh) fields of the /etc/passwd file, determine the userid and login shell for your username, the user root, and the user nobody (yes, there is a system user with the username "nobody"). Create simple files in your home directory, called my.uid, my.shell, root.uid, …

hello, I created a awk program to work witha data file to output a table and subtotal the rows and total up the collums and average I got it to work but when i added a presentation header before my totals go away. working code so far ------ can be …

I am trying to modify my shell sort algorithm to use Hibbard's increments rather than n/2. I know that Hibbard's increments are 2k - 1, but I can't figure out how to incorporate that into my algorithm. Any suggestions to help me move forward with this? I feel like I …

i have 2 files, one file created on Windows and another was made on Ubuntu, i want to use this command: comm -12 file1 file2 how do i do that?

i got a string var=96.33% from 120 how do i get 96.33 from $var?

hello guys, unfortunly my website got hacked few hours ago, and after investigations I found the was a c99.php file on my server so i deleted it and stopped any upload proccess and change back my chmod to default I want to ask how to prevent php files from being …

My code is rather basic so excuse my lack of shell scripting experience. I keep getting errors for line 3. I have tried changing "$1" to `echo $1` `cat $1` and even turning the whole line into a variable which i read in another forum and then calling that variable …

I am trying to write a shell script but I only want it to run if there are no files with a specific name found on the server. I know how to check for a specif file which would be done like this: if [ -f /path/to/file ] then echo …

Hi, I am trying to use mysql select query in a shell script but i need to know how to store a particular value from the output of the query in a script variable. my script file is given below. I need to store the value under field CheckSum in …

Write a shell script that will accept any number of command line interger parameters a d do the following....I have to use a if statment for the lowest and highest values??? Determind the lowest and highest values? Determind the sum of all parameters entered?

Hi I have written the below code for ftp transfer. can u please help me how to trap whether it is successful or not. [code]ftp -n `awk '$1 ~ /db_server_IP/ { print $3 }' $CONFIG_FILE` <<END quote USER `awk '$1 ~ /db_user/ { print $3 }' $CONFIG_FILE` quote PASS `awk …

Hello everyone. I'm trying to code the cd shell command in c. I used chdir function to code it but the problem is that when I execute the program on the terminal it doesn't change the directory. I kept a series printfs and conditions to test if it changes, though …

I want to write a shell script to automate the ftp session, in that it should take the inputs like the server ip , username , password from a different file who path i'll pass. and also the validations that if the server path exits or not.

I have to run a shell script and store whatever is performed in it into a log file. the path can be altered for the log file. how can i do that ?

Hello. I am writing a script to do some copying of files. I feel confident that I can do that part, but before I even start doing the actual copies, it compares the last modified dates of two files.. I know this seems a very basic question that I would …

Hi, I am new to Unix/Linux... I have a TCSH shell script (on AIX4) in which, at a certain point, I want the user to be able to pass commands to the TCSH interpreter. What I do is I create the illusion that the user is at his usuall shell …

Hi, I wanted to write a C program which searches for text files in a directory(assuming the directory and files are not write protected),list them and open each one of them(files) write a letter A in them.Can anyone give me a sample code. I believe it can be done with …

I have question about shell command well lets say i have this [CODE] Shell("\bin\game.exe", AppWinStyle.NormalNoFocus) [/CODE] Well as you know the command will come up an say File Not Found [CODE] FileNotFoundException [/CODE] So how can i put this command and when the file is not found turn up with …

I am writing a simple shell script to automate a simple backup of a website and it's database. This is the working code: [CODE]#!/bin/bash # creates a backup of the mysql & webdata for a specific website. TODAY=`date +%A` # these variables cannot contain any spaces and must be modified …

script to specify the name of the user to be checked, the frequency in seconds at which the script should check. If a checking frequency is not specified, it should default to 60 seconds So far I have got [CODE] frequency=$0 user=$1 #!/bin/sh while [ $* -gt 60 ] do …

Not sure why my comparisons aren't working between my input (text) and my several char arrays. I'm trying to get the user's input to terminate certain functions as you'll see below. I realise it's not the most efficient code but if there's anything obvious I'm missing please let me know. …

I'm attempting to recreate the Unix shell program "todo.txt" using C++ on Windows. An example use of my program in the Command Prompt would be: [CODE]>todo /A "I like cheese."[/CODE] which would append the item "I like cheese." to the file "todo.txt". In my program, there is a line which …