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linux & solaris - separate netmask IP's from ordinary IP's

I have file with IP address and netmask IP's my target is to cut the netmask IP's from the file_with_IPs.txt and paste them to another file as file_with_only_netmask_ips.txt remark - netmask IP can ...
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perl one liner + how to replace any last IP address octets

How to replace any last IP address octets (four octet ) to 0 remark: Implementation should be by Perl one linear on linux machines for example 192.9.200.124 will replaced to 192.9.200.0 ...
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linux + match IP ADDRESS with 3 octets or with 4 octets

how to match IP address with 4 octets or with 3 octets in one command? target - match xxx.xxx.xxx or xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ( syntax should fit for Linux and Solaris ) how to merge the following commands ...
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Rename files and directories with a special characters on solaris machines

The target of the following code ( commands ) is to rename files/directories and also support files/directories with a special characters as "@" or "." etc those commands are run fine on Linux ...
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1answer
129 views

Solaris 10, Shell Script, Cursor movement [closed]

#include <signal.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <time.h> void prtime() { time_t rawtime; struct tm * ...
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1answer
407 views

Bash vs ksh pipes

I am stuck with some problems with my scripts in ksh. FWIW the problem which I am unable to overcome is that when I use a structure such as this command | while read VAR1 do many.commands using ...
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1answer
213 views

Why does sendmail work differently in different shells?

The following code works when I directly run it in bash shell: SUBJECT="SUBJECT-"`date`; MAIL_FROM="abc@site.com"; MAIL_TO="abc@site.com"; MAIL_CC="abc@site.com"; MAIL_FILE="/path/of/html/body.html"; ...
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1answer
125 views

How do I ensure that only one instance of my ksh script runs on Solaris using NFS? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What Unix commands can be used as a semaphore/lock? I have read many similar post and the solution seems to be to use flock. flock does not exist on my system and I ...
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3answers
717 views

Solaris: find the day of last Monday,Tuesday,…Sunday by means of shell script

I'm trying desperatly to find a bash or ksh routine that allows me to find for example the previous Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,... preceding today's date. Additonal it has to work on plain vanilla ...
4
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1answer
304 views

Ksh loses data after piping 16K bytes

I recently found that ksh may lose some data after printing more than 16K bytes to the stdout if it is blocked for a couple of seconds. This test.sh script prints out 257*64 (16448) bytes: ...
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4answers
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Executing user defined function in a find -exec call

I'm on Solaris 10 and I have tested the following with ksh (88), bash (3.00) and zsh (4.2.1). The following code doesn't yield any result: function foo { echo "Hello World" } find somedir -exec ...
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2answers
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What are the dangers of setting a high limit to max File Descriptors per process?

I'm working on an old legacy application, and I commonly come across certain settings that no one around cam explain. Apparently at some point, some processes in the application were hitting the max ...
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2answers
683 views

Using sed to color the output from a command on solaris

I have a ksh script that must work on both linux and solaris. I'm trying to color the output of specific commands. It works on linux (specifically RHEL6), but not on solaris (SunOS 5.10). Command ...
2
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1answer
222 views

Time validation with regex

I'd like to make validation about time stamp of one of my log file. But it seems I have problem on my expression in case statement. TIME value might be something like 11:49 or 2011. And I just want ...
3
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4answers
539 views

Formatting the output: Underlining

I wrote the following function in ksh that prints its first argument to the screen and underlines it with the appropriate ammount of - character: print_underlined () { word=$1 echo $word ...
3
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2answers
127 views

Execute command on shared account login

At work our team uses a shared account "appadmin" to administer our application. At login, each one of us sources an "aliasrc" file containing his or her preferences. (aliases, display, prompt, ...). ...
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3answers
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Using nohup on Solaris 10

I need to transfer a large number of files over SFTP (only between Solaris servers) which takes a very long time. I cannot keep my PC on for this duration. I tried: nohup sftp server1 While the ...