i am in big problem so please help on it. below i write the scripts, i don't know it is correct or not, but i want write the shell script for. In particular machine need to check all process are running or not, and we need result to display in the web page like server name = running, not only single server we have so many servers so, result like in the web page: server1...

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I want to compare a line in a file with zero(0) and if its more than zero i want to print the prior two lines, can u please help me in solving out this... please...

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This is regarding script #62 (define a word): Looks like WordNet has changed their online version again and I tried the following replacement for the url= http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s= But the script doesn't return anything but goes back to the prompt. I tried the url with a word in lynx and I got the source. Could you push me in a general direction?...

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I'm becoming a big Twitter fan, but as a Linux user, I find it darn frustrating that most of the apps out there are for Mac and Windows users. I mean, I'm used to it, but is there at least some way to get to Twitter from the command line?...

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I've been looking at your script to count executable binaries in the book Wicked Cool Shell Scripts and I think that there's a problem in the script. Specifically, what happens if I have a directory in my PATH more than once?...

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