Forum: Programming / Scripting

Does anyone know a site where specifications for programming languages like C and Perl are available? I'm trying to write a parser to correctly...

I have a script that will run perfectly when executed at the command line, but when executing it through cron it fails in this function. Any...

I'd like a script that would run another script in the terminal, then keep checking the script until it's done (every 5 minutes would be great) and...

Hi I'm running a TCP server listening on port 5000. Unfortunately, everytime a client program on a PC that talks to this port dies because of...

I am looking for a way to script the renaming of files and/or directory names to remove a set number of characters from the begining of the...

Hi, like always i stuck on my bash. it so simple but i go crazy for a whole day... so i have no choise but to ask for help. SCRIPT SHOULD DO: if...

Hi all, can anyone tell what is a ramdisk and why it is used and what is the meaning of the statement "configuring the kernel to boot from the...

i made reseach on web and i wrote this script... file="/etc/passwd" IFS=: while read line do set -- $line printf "%19s %8s...

I'm trying to evaluate different C++ compilers (free or pay version) other than GCC for Linux platform. The one’s I have seen that look good are...

ok really simple question and maybe a hard question and a method question 1) what are the parts of this piece of code doing? echo $(< somefile)...

Hi, I have a doubt about C compiler feature. I have some C functions in my environment and I want a specific function to go into a particulr...

Hi, Gurus: I have created a shell script to call SQL script to do something in Oracle DB. The script works fine. However, the mail program part on...

I need to save a users input to a file on my server. I'm running Apache on my Linux box and I have been able to save the out put of my CGI shell...

I wish to compare two variables that contain data similar to this: 2006-09-20 12:41:08 When I compare them in an if stmt like this: ...

Any thoughts as to why this doesn't work? DATE variable looks like this: 2006-09-20 10:20:32 (Goal: remove all spaces, hyphens, and colons...

I would like to include files in my bash script, like php does: ie include config.php My goal is to break off the MYSQL DB info into a...

Hello, Can anybody giv me any hints, how to create a directory using a : _syscallX() , macro ? Thanks

Hi There, Does anybody know of a way in bash shell script to stream the output from a non interactive process (eg sdptool) to a file. At the...

I don't know programming or anything, but am just playing around. I can't seem to get this to work, andy thoughts as to why? D1=1 D2=2 if...