I see you've posted articles explaining how to put a Google Search Box and Search Results on a website. (see add Google search to your site). But is it possible to be able to store the search phrases typed into...

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I'm studying Unix, and i need help writing a script. The script requires that it outputs the number of months and years from January 2007 to December 2017 inclusive that have a Friday the thirteenth....

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In your book Wicked Cool Shell Scripts, on p. 115, Script #40 Reporting Disk Hogs, on the 8th line the second part of the line reads:     awk -F: '$2 > 99 {print $1} ') I am very new...

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Hi i am trying to comapre numbers for the biggest among double type of numbers. For example: 0.254, 0.255, 0.564, 0.984, 0.556, 0.6566, and 0.5666. I'm using the following script code: if [ $max -lt $i ] if [ "$max...

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