I seem to recall a long time ago that when you installed Mac OS X you also got a bunch of cool Unix command line developer tools, including a C compiler, debugging tools and much more. I'm taking a C...

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Please, gimme a advice how to correctly use loop "for i in `seq 1 10`" for Mac OS X, echo $SHELL->/bin/bash, because when I write simple strip: for i in `seq 1 10`;do echo $i;done it outputs -bash: seq: command...

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On page 329 (Hour 16) of your book Teach Yourself Unix in 24 Hours is the example: value=3 ; string="my horse Horace"test $value test `wc –l filename` -ge 10000 If I try this with this code: #!/bin/sh/value=3;string="my horse Horace"test $value...

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I have read about 15 chapters of your book (Teach Yourself UNIX in 24 Hours) so far. We are using vi. On the PS1 command, how do I see what is in it so I can add to it and...

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I just finished Learning Unix for Mac OS X Tiger, and think it is an excellent little resource. I'm recently out of school, a school where we weren't taught anything about Unix, just enough to get by. I started work...

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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...

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I'm a bit baffled. I'm trying to compare string variables in a shell script to figure out if one value is lexically less (that is, would appear earlier in the dictionary) than another, but it doesn't seem to work at...

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I need to run a Unix application if a different application is running, from within a shell script. How do I do this?...

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