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Why is uname -M returning an empty string?

On the exact same machine (AIX 6.1), in 2 different login shells (both ksh), with different user IDs, I can do uname -M; in one shell I get the system model. In the other shell I get BLANK! The only ...
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Installing ksh as the standard shell in Redhat: Foolhardy?

I'm not a system administrator, but my organization is considering replacing /bin/sh in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6+ with a hard link to /bin/ksh. How foolhardy would this be? The background to this ...
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Del key in AIX ksh over PuTTY telnet

At the place where I work we're developing under AIX with ksh and connecting to it via telnet. Most people use ArcTel to connect, while I prefer PuTTY. The only problem I have with PuTTY is that the ...
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Skip first 3 byte of a file

I am using AIX 6.1 ksh shell I want to use one liner to do something like this cat A_FILE | skip-first-3-bytes-of-the-file I want to skip the first 3 bytes of the first line, is there a way to ...
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Unset Read Only Variables

Is it possible to unset or change a readonly variable in Korn Shell? I am using AIX 5.
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what does “serial=${serial##*.}” do? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do ${0##/} and ${0%/} work? 0:root@SERVER:/ # 0:root@SERVER:/ # serial=$(lscfg -vl hdisk1 | awk '/Serial Number/') 0:root@SERVER:/ # echo $serial ...
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put tab before every output line on AIX/ksh

0:root@SERVER:/root # echo "something" | sed -e 's/^/\t/g' tsomething 0:root@SERVER:/root # AIX/ksh .. why doesn't it works? I just want to put a "tab" before every line!
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Getting size with du of files only

How can I get the size of all files and all files in its subdirectories using the du command. I am trying the following command to get the size of all files (and files in subdirectories) find . ...
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Tutorial about key maping in KSH in EMACS mode

Are there any good tutorial to learn about Key Maping in Korn Shell (AIX) in EMACS mode ?
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What could cause which to not show something in the path?

There is an executable in my path that I believe is a perl script. >$scriptname $outputofscript but >which $scriptname which: 0652-141 There is no $scriptname in $path and the path it ...