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gtar recursively untar but leave in top directory
I am trying to recursively untar a whole lot of directories that have .tar files in them, but without creating any new subdirectories. I am successfully able to do one at a time with this command gtar ...
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Script to keep the latest 5 files and rest will be moved to other destination
Source path: /var/log/ Here I have 4 folders named ad1nrld,ad2nrld,icp1rmnrl,icp2rmnrl I can move all the files to the other destination named /home/spsy/logs_bkp. But I want to keep latest 5 files in ...
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sending csv file via unix
I am sending an email with content, subject and attachment on a Solaris system. Some users are receiving the mail ok with CSV file and everything, and some users are receiving a content in base64 ...
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Script configuration issues
My purpose is to allow user A to run a specific script owned by user B but with user B’s profile loaded. This is on a Solaris maachine. I have users A and B, I set this line: in the sudoers file, so ...
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intelligent way to read another file for words to exclude while reading logs
I want to have a separate text file which I can modify anytime for words to be excluded while grepping the logs file. I have written below basic script to serve my purpose as of now. in SunOS. Please ...
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IF construct in Solaris box to compare hh:mm:ss
I had created the below script which does the comparison between hh:mm:ss format variables. #!/bin/sh lag=00:00:00 MAX_LAG=00:05:00 echo $lag echo $MAX_LAG if [ "$lag" \< "$MAX_LAG" ] ##if [ "$...
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Variable in Date command
I want to use a variable inside date command . GNU date is not supportable in my system. I use Sunos and when I use date with -d option it is shwoing -d as bad substitution. #!/usr/bin/ksh ...
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Pass variables from SHELL to AWK
I want to write a one liner on Solaris 11 to check the space in each of the zpools of my systems. The output would look like this... myzone1 rpool 83% myzone2 rpool 49% All the posts I've read say to ...
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Filtering time using last command on Solaris
I'm connected on server using Solaris and need to filter only people who were connected there until 28.4 00:00. How do I do that on Solaris? In bash I have -t option which does what I want.
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What does eval X=\$$i mean in UNIX?
I have a small script with the following lines echo mom,dad |awk -F, '{print $1,$2}' | while read VAR1 VAR2 do for i in VAR1 VAR2 do eval X=\$$i echo $X done done OUTPUT: mom dad What is ...
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How to kill inactive user logins on Solaris?
On a Solaris 10 server if i do a w, I get this: 12:26pm up 85 day(s), 1:13, 6 users, load average: 0.38, 0.36, 0.38 User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what blah pts/1 ...
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Unable to perform a simple multiplication in script
I am havingf trouble performing a simple multiplication in my script. while read A B C do tmp=$A\*$C/100 echo $tmp >> out1.txt done < foo.txt foo.txt: 13721725 99 100 ...
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Solaris: PKG - Script To Verify All Packages Except for a Few
I'm trying to verify the all packages except for a pre-defined list of packages that I know are going to fail for known reasons. This script is going to be run on all Solaris systems within our ...
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Parsing a flat file using shell script
I have a file like in following format User:blala Pass:blala IP:***.***.**.** I tried with IFS but it is not working input="/path/to/your/input/file.cvs" while IFS=',' read -r f1 f2 f3 f4 f5 f6 ...
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Command output to file, new lines at beginning
I'm rewriting some 20+ year old Unix scripts and I want the output to go to the screen and a file. I know this is possible with tee. Is there a similar command that stacks new lines on top, at the ...
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