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Remove parts of a path using parameter expansion... but how?

I need to remove the part man1/bmtoa.1.gz from the full path /usr/share/man/man1/bmtoa.1.gz so that it results in /usr/share/man/ I've tried ${path#[!/]*/*} and ${path#/*/*} but both result in wrong paths.
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My Server is sending malicious SSH requests

I am facing weird issue on my server (Unix). There are couple vendors reported me that my server is sending malicious requests to their server by using SSH Protocol. I have already checked the system logs under /var/log but didn't get anything…
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Bash & blocking processes

Could you help me with the Bash syntax to achieve the following? Run a blocking process without blocking execution of the rest of the script. Run a standard "non-blocking" process (e.g. lsof). "Rejoin" the blocking process so that ^C will stop that…
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What if I want to delete files that are not accessed for a few days in unix?

What if I want to delete files/folders that are not accessed for a few days in Unix? Say there are some files that were last accessed 5 days ago in a particular location. I want to delete those. What is the shell command for that?
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bash script to detect when a file is added to folder and command exec

I am trying to write a script to detect whenever a file is added to a specific folder and run a command using the last file added name. What I am specifically trying to do is to create a QR code for each file I add in a specific folder. So what I…
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What file is in every unix login?

I was asked that question and to be honest not sure if I understood that. I would say shell but instead of shell we can run any other program so ... any idea by unix gurus?
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How to hide the 'dn:' value in Ldap unix shell commands?

I got a problem to solve. How do i hide the 'dn:' part ? dn: uid=trebbouh,ou=2017_paris,ou=2017,ou=paris,ou=people,dc=42,dc=fr This is the command I used : ldapsearch -x -LLL uid=$USER -W
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Create symlink if source exists

I'm trying to make a symlink to a directory if it exists only and cannot figure out how. I tried various ideas I found and none worked. Most notable idea that i thought would do the job was to use ln -s ls /path to test the dir for ln but it did not…
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Run bash script with command line arguments

I want to do /usr/bin/bash myscript.sh -args which, as it stands, runs the script but doesn't pass the args to it. I realize that the conventional syntax is simply ./myscript.sh -args but I'm curious as to what I need to do in order to call the…
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Solaris - How to tell whether machine is running SPARC or Intel Chip

What command can I run to tell whether SunOS 5.10 is running a SPARC or Intel chip?
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