Mounting a zipped partition Guillaume 1 244
Hello all, say I archived a partition thusly: dd if=/dev/sda1 | gzip > sda1.img.gz Is there a way to mount it directly without having to gunzip i...

what $! does in Ksh boston01 2 273
I cannot figure out what $! does. can someone help? Thanks, ...

how to prevent back quote expansion? kirby 15 256
The following script will output one line. the carriage return is removed by the back quote operation. Any way to prevent that carriage is removed? ...

How do I remove this "p"? laredotornado 12 162
Hi, I'm using Mac 10.6.3 with bash shell. I want to identify the process using a particular port for the purposes of passing that process ID to ...

doubt in llive project unix 0 122
Hi all, My self shanker.. I have a doubt in unix shell scripting.. Actually I am working on an server, which have number of logs every second... ...

getting cpan configured Uno 10 711
I have an ubuntu install that might be a month old. Although I thought to have saved my data, I see to have lost more of perl capability than I w...

Case Pattern Optimization DanielC 2 183
name="foo-nam-en foo-nam-fr foo-mx-es foo-lam-es foo-lam-br foo-ph-en foo-row-en foo-anz-en foo-eur-en foo-eur-fr foo-eur-es foo-eur-de foo- eur-it ...

portable local variables? Hallvard 2 198
Is there a reasonably portable way to get local (function-scope) shell variables? Googling around I found a number of wrong answers:-( Apparently...

generating non repeating numbers within a range Sivaram 19 424
I'm preparing test papers with random questions picked up from a question bank. The question bank is basically q1.tex, q2.tex... in a directory, 1 ...

What's the disadvantage for script if [ $x = 'WORLD ]; Miao 5 134
Hello, for script x='HELLO' if [ $x = 'HELLO' ]; some people write it in if [ "$x" = 'HELLO' ]; Is there any disadvantage if write it in [ $x ...