A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
WARNING: this will fail if the user is playing with $0 For example using a symbolic or hard link with a unexpected name. # Simplest… # PROGNAME=`type $0 | awk ‘{print $3}’` # search for executable on path PROGNAME=`basename $PROGNAME` # base name of program # Advanced… # Script name, in what directory, and in […]
To run the Windows Manager (Desktop Environment) of your choice the following have to be in the users home directory .xinitrc file. XFCE4 exec startxfce4 Gnome exec gnome-session KDE exec startkde
List the names of files in the current directory dated May 16. ls -l | awk ‘{if($6==”May” && $7==”16″) print $NF }’
An improperly configured DNS setup can be really annoying. You want to make sure that your mappings work both ways: Each hostname should resolve to an address, and that address ought to resolve back to the proper hostname. If an address on your subnet(s) has been assigned a reverse pointer to a hostname, that hostname […]