Category Archives: Solaris

Solaris Quick Start

Posted on September 3, 2017 by UNIX Admin

You can download the following PDF which you can use it for a quick start on Solaris: solaris-quicksheet the PDF file taking about the following outlines:

LVM

Posted on September 20, 2014 by UNIX Admin

LVM :- Logical Volume Manager and it’s a disk Management for Linux/UNIX Systems.

uncompress files using jar command

Posted on February 23, 2014 by UNIX Admin

you can uncompressed zipping files using java, specially “jar” command:   to do that , try the following :   /usr/java6/bin/jar -xvf /tmp/test.zip

run levels description

Posted on December 21, 2013 by UNIX Admin

The Following points shows the meaning of each run level : on LINUX-UBUTNU/DEBIAN: 0 – halt 1 – single user 2 – multiuser (default) 3 – same as 2 4 – same as 2 5 – same as 2 6 … Continue reading →

how to know current run level

Posted on December 21, 2013 by UNIX Admin

run the following command to know your current run level: # who -r run-level 2 2013-12-20 00:39

how to see hidden char in file

Posted on October 9, 2013 by UNIX Admin

some times you transfer files from windows to Linux or UNIX using binary method, you will find some hidden characters  on the file, to display these hidden character  use commands “cat” with option “vte” see the following examples:

how to ease navigation with CDPATH

Posted on October 7, 2013 by UNIX Admin

$CDPATH=:..:~:~/projects Set CDPATH to ease navigation CDPATH tells the cd command to look in this colon-separated list of directories for your destination. My preferred order are 1) the current directory, specified by the empty string between the = and the … Continue reading →