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Ksh is the executable name for the Korn shell developed by David Korn at AT&T Laboratories in the early 1980s. It is commonly used in Solaris and is favored for its ability to use Emacs and Vi shortcuts at the command line.

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Script SCP without certificates or expect

I need to script SCP and I need to be able to do this by passing in the password in plain text. I am absolutely aware of the horrible design pattern that I am asking for. I cannot use certificates for this application. My challenge is that the box…
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Solaris 8 - directories gone missing; is this housecleaning script the culprit?

Our outsourced IT service provider runs the following script via cron to clean up Oracle core and trace files. It clearly is not a well-written script, but my question for the Serverfault crowd is whether there is an error or boundary condition…
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shell script + add inside the script PATH for standard output

Usually if we want to redirect script output to file we simply do /etc/create_connection.sh > file.debug.txt Or /etc/create_connection.sh | tee –a file.debug.txt But What I want is to add /etc/create_connection.sh > file.debug.txt …
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What version of ksh ships with AIX 5.3?

I'm writing a Korn shell script for a client, who will use it on AIX 5.3. For testing, I'm using version 93u-1 Debian Wheezy. Is this the same version as the one I'll find on AIX?
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ksh93 esc-esc complation

Does anyone know how to set esc-esc completion? I've installed ksh93 from ports on FreeBSD. set -o vi NOR set -o viraw have any effect Thanks
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Exclude certain disk in dd command script for disk erasure

for disk in $(lspv | awk '{print $1}') ; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/${disk} bs=1024 count=$(bootinfo -s ${disk}) echo $disk wiped done How do i exclude certain disks like hdisk0,hdisk1 and hdisk3? Regards, Adel
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Solaris: determine if login shell (su -) or not

What's the best way to determine from a ksh script if the current shell is a login shell (su - user) or not (su user). I'm toying with: user=$(/usr/xpg4/bin/id -un) login=$(grep $HOME /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1 | head -1) if [ "$login" == "$user" ];…
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Get error "ksh.exe has crashed" when run the command in msys open with admin

When I open msys without admin option on windows server 2008/2012 and run "jbossctl status" command it gives me correct output. But, when I run the same command in msys opened with admin option it gives me error "ksh.exe has crashed" Can anyone…
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linux + delete duplicate IP's from file

what the best way to remove duplicate IP's from file I use the command: sort file | uniq but I am not sure if this is the best way , maybe I missed something? remark: my file contain two fields example of file 172.17.200.1 3.3.3.3 …
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grep to IP address when IP address in parameter

I need to grep to IP address ( as the following example ) , I use ksh script , # ifconfig -a | /usr/xpg4/bin/grep "100\.106\.2\.120 " inet 100.106.2.120 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 100.106.2.255 but how to grep IP address from parameter…
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grep + Regular Expressions to match uniq number

My target is to verify if $FILE is a backup file ( backup file ended with xxxx.xx.xx.xx number Example of backup files ls /etc/VRTSvcs/conf/config main.cf.17Dec2012.09.10.14 main.cf.17Dec2012.09.10.23 main.cf.17Dec2012.09.10.31 Example of…
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expect script + write "if" in expect script

please advice what's wrong with my exepct syntax ( I run expect in ksh script on Solaris 10 machine ) I want to verify if OS is linux so if it true the expect check if prompt is "#" or ">" and then run the "ls" command but I get the error…
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Weird behaviour with ksh?

So I found something somewhat interesting in ksh. I found that if the last character is \, then immediately backspace, the charcter becomes recplaced with ^H. I am then able to press backspace again to clear it away. What kind of wizardry am I…
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Lock down Solaris Shell Changing for normal users

I have a few dozen Solaris(5.10) boxes. By default, they are using ksh as the shell. Only a few users have sudo privileges. The rest do not. I don't want my regular users changing to another shell. Here is what I've done: Minimal sudoers so…
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shell script + match MAJOR and CRITICAL strings from log file

I need to match lines that have MAJOR and CRITICAL strings that comes after the word ERROR:< any integer number > please advice how to do that with one awk or sed command? more HW_Log.txt CHK_HW ERROR:0 INFO self_monitor …
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