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What is the syntax of "grep" command?

4 20699

What is egrep?

2 6749

What are the additional egrep symbols?

2 6127

What is the use of "test" command?

2 6941

Create a bash shell script that removes all files whose names end with a "~" from your home directory and subdirectories. Name this script "cleanup.sh"

6 15047

Create a bash shell script to sort and then uniq the file from the command line & store it to a new file and output the results to the screen. Name this script "sortAndUniq.sh"

5 10984

What is the syntax of "expr" command?

2 19318

In shell scripting if text is surrounded by single quotes what does it denotes?

3 8593

How to group the commands in shell scripting?

Polaris,

2 10836

What is the use of script interpreter in shell scripting?

3 7442

How to enable the shell to know what program should be run to interpret the script?

3 7194

give me some website where i can get unix and testing meterials

1 3594

how to create purchase order

2 4957

how to delete all the files with extension .dat rom a directory tree from root to third level in a single unix command?

4 9475

How do you print the output the same string which is typed in command line. how do you write the shell script or command for this. if i entered "Hello" in command line, it should print 'Hello', if i say "Hello Welcome", i should get the "Hello Welcome" as output.?

IBM, Symphony,

3 10702

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What is the default ubuntu terminal?

1059

How do I open the shell in cmd?

1064

What are types of shells?

980

Is shell scripting a programming language?

1010

What does chmod do?

1086

How to debug the problems encountered in the shell script/program?

1074

‎What is a shell? · ‎Types of shell · ‎what is shell scripting?

933

What does $$ mean in shell script?

999

Explain about debugging?

974

determine the output of the following command: echo ${new:-variable}

923

is this growing field and what is average package in this?

2255

How do I run a script on mac?

1040

Using set -A write a script to print the output of the ls command in 5 columns with two spaces between each column. Pretend that ls does not have multicolumn output.

2425

What is batch file programming?

1111

How to print pid of the current shell?

952

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