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Perl dependency issue
I've installed CentOS 6.3 (i386) recently.
It has two perl binary
/usr/bin/perl (v5.10.1)
/usr/local/appx/perl/bin/perl (v5.8.8)
My question: Is it possible to install some other funtinonality ...
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3answers
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Sorting IP address according to the second field in file
in my ksh script I need to add the following task ( OS - linux/solaris )
I have the following file
more test.txt
/etc/backup/app 172.1.120 172.110.120
/etc/backup/app 172.1.120.12 ...
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perl one liner + print VALUE in the end of the line
The following perl one liner checks if $CURRENT_VERSION matches $NEW_VERSION exactly, and prints it if it does.
Example:
CURRENT_VERSION=223.3.12.4.5.3
NEW_VERSION=223.3.12.4.5.3
DATE=17.3.2013
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1answer
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perl + combine exec command with perl one liner line
I have the following short perl script rename.pl. How can I translate this script to one liner perl syntax? And how to combine the perl one liner in find command?
rename.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
$op = ...
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2answers
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renaming a directory and its subdirs without affecting their files
I have to rename directories under the root directory with prefix "ms_PF" and then rename their subdirectories with the modified name of the main directory with an extra "_", and then copy all ...
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1answer
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Failed dependencies trying to install package 'libxml2'
I am trying to install libxml2, but my system complains about dependencies. The dependent packages exist on system.
The ultimate goal is to install xml_grep2, I have been trying various methods ...
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1answer
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How to list all present optical drivers?
How can I list all the installed optical drivers with udev or any other core-based tool (perl is also very good) ?
P.S.: I know about the wodim --devices command, but it's an undesirable ...
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1answer
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Identify text/ascii files in Linux/Solaris
I have a little project to build bash script that search in the OS ( Linux/Solaris ) the current IP address from files and replace them with other IP address.
The problem is that IP address could be ...
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1answer
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Linux + replace STRING/WORD in file according to rule
My target is to replace any word/string/Any characters in file
with new word/string according to the following rules:
If numeric characters on the left side of word/string then we not replace the ...
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1answer
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linux + perl + replace any WORD in file with special characters with condition
Example1 work fine when I want to replace OLD_TEXT with NEW_TEXT ( its replace also all special characters as $@^%)(_+`:; etc ..)
example1
export OLD_TEXT='$$OLD_WORD$$'
export ...
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4answers
326 views
Replace all but a set of characters in a file with newline
how to delete all characters in file except numbers and "." ,
each word (numbers/dot) should be in new line in file see example2
the solution can be with sed or awk or ksh syntax
remark - ...
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2answers
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Fetch values from plist file on Linux
I have bash script which was written for OS X and now ported to Linux. I don't have access to the Linux box. The bash script would read values from plist files using the defaults read and PlistBuddy ...
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4answers
646 views
Why is Perl installed by default with most Linux distributions?
Just curious. The title says it all: Why is Perl installed by default with most Linux distributions?
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3answers
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how to check for disk in use on rhel
How to check if a disk is in use? If in use, How to check free, used space before I can start using it?
I'm trying this in Perl and Any help is appreciated.
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1answer
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Linux: create list of text with multiple operators [closed]
I want to make a list like this:
7785237_770x770_de3b540dc13ed50023d17854513b40aa07e50a6a
732308_770x770_ec5c344c0114011a5306b31142ff9b001813f6d6
...
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2answers
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How to know reason of a process going to sleep state and wake it up?
When I do 'top' , I see my perl script process in 'S' state. Is there a way to know, what is making this perl process go in sleep state and ways to wake it up? Any way to debug to give more insights ...
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2answers
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Need to install MySQL Client libaries but RPM not installing them
I'm trying install the MySQL Client libraries for the Perl Mod of the same name but when I run
sudo rpm --install -v --allfiles MySQL-client-5.5.16-1.linux2.6.i386.rpm
and querying the rpm ...
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2answers
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perl regex replacing globally when global not selected
I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 and wrote a small script that searches within text files for certain "tokens" and replaces with some a prewritten snippet from a template file of the same name.
The text files ...
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1answer
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Find server with small ping latency (my script, but can anyone write it in e.g.: Perl?) [closed]
I want to download OpenBSD with FTP with a script, and I want to download it from a server that is near me. So I want to choose a mirror that has low "ping latency". I wrote a little script, that ...
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2answers
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Perl find and replace is writing every file
Here's the test script I'm running
matt@server:~ $ cat test.sh
#!/bin/bash
mkdir test
cd test
echo "has the string foo" > yes.txt
echo "hasn't the string" > no.txt
ls -l --time-style=full-iso
...
