I'm trying to write a shell script that will accept a street address and output the latitude and longitude of that address, for geocache purposes. How can I do that?...

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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 to shell scripting, so I am probably just not understanding how this line should be interpreted. In my Linux class, I have been learning that in the /etc/passwed file the 1st field is username, the...

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I have a script that does an ftp from a SCO UNIX server to windows server to get files from the windows server. The script is set in the cron to run every xx minutes. Sometimes the script will hang and leave a process running. This can bog down the UNIX server. I want to be able to do two things. 1. I want to make sure that the script doesn't hang - so it...

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I need help with a shell script! I want to prompt someone to enter an IP address the automatically increment it and output the sequence of that address and its following addresses, but I don't know how to do that: when I try to increment a value like "10.10.10.27" it fails because it's not a number....

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