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…