Forum: Programming / Scripting

Hey guys, So I've made programs for other OSes but I'm extremely new to the Linux platform. I can use all the advice I can get. What tools would I...

Is there a way in bash to check if a variable is a number? Like an if statement to check if the variables a number and if it is do one thing if its...

I want ot customize my bash to do the following on login: 1/ not display the full current directory at the prompt 2/delete duplicate command...

Hi I have PCI card with driver. Now I have to drive 2 PCI cards having identical device ID, vendor ID,subvendor ID, subdevice ID and also...

i wrote this script, and everytime i run the script the code deletes and i want to know why EDIT: i also chmod 755 if anyone wanted to know $...

Hi, I have video capture PCI card and also driver. This driver does ths dynamic allocation of major number to identify the driver module. ...

Hey everyone, I am wrote a class called ScopedMap which is very similar to the HashMap class, only it has multiple layers (levels) which act like...

I am writing a one-line bash command and need to parse the output I'm currently getting. At present, after grepping and using SED and tr, my...

Hi I want to compile the 2001 version of HTDIG (libcommon) for lpr. (version 3.2.0b3) On the "htlib" directory on several "*.cpp" program, there...

Im taking a class on Unix/Linux and now we have reached a point in the class where I have no experience: Scripting. Im trying to make a bash script...

Hi to all, is there any way to open the .dsw MS Visual C++ projects on Linux (Ubuntu Edgy)? I come from windows. What is your advice to start...

Hi everybody, I have read that commands which will be excuted in between curly braces ({ }) will be executed in the current shell only. But I...

Hello I want to write a script in k shell to change UID, group and GID. I don't want to enter a password when i login to multiple machines. ...

Hi, I'm working with select, and it returns -1 with error no. set to 4(EINTR) which stands for "a interrupted system call". I'm using select on...

hi guys, now a days i am doing a bit of network coding, In hospital every bed has a patient monitoring system and all the systems r in a...

Hi All. I'm new to shell scripting and have a doubt related to c shell. How does one find the exit status / return status of the last command run ?...

hi all i developed a small software. and i created an rpm for this. my problem is it is not installing in user level(non root users). in this...

hi all i would like to know the speed of the internet from my system file. is there any possible way. please help me thank you in advance