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how to see hidden char in file

October 9th, 2013

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:

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System Accounts Description

October 9th, 2013

Hello Everybody,

i bring on the below line some description for system users and for what they used :

Description of accounts

  • root :
    • Commonly called the superuser (UID 0), this is the account that system administrators log into to perform system maintenance and problem determination.

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how to ease navigation with CDPATH

October 7th, 2013
$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 first colon,

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Shell Script for Leap Year

July 30th, 2013

Hello every body,
i have below a nice script to tell year the year is Leap or NOT.just copy the following line into a new file name it leap.ksh

# Shell program to read any year and find whether leap year or not
# -----------------------------------------------
# Copyright (c) 2005 nixCraft project 
# This script is licensed under GNU GPL version 2.0 or above
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# This script is part of nixCraft shell script collection (NSSC)
# Visit http://bash.cyberciti.biz/ for more information.
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# store year
yy=0
isleap="false"
#echo -n "Enter year (yyyy) : "
#read yy
yy=$1
# find out if it is a leap year or not
if [ $((yy % 4)) -ne 0 ] ; then
   : #  not a leap year : means do nothing and use old value of isleap
elif [ $((yy % 400)) -eq 0 ] ; then
   # yes, it's a leap year
   isleap="true"
elif [ $((yy % 100)) -eq 0 ] ; then
   : # not a leap year do nothing and use old value of isleap
else
   # it is a leap year
   isleap="true"
fi
if [ "$isleap" == "true" ];
then
   echo "YES"
else
   echo "NOT"
fi

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How to change welcome message in AIX

July 30th, 2013

of course each time you login to the server you see the following welcome Message :

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*                                                                             *
*                                                                             *
*  Welcome to AIX Version 6.1!                                                *
*                                                                             *
*                                                                             *
*  Please see the README file in /usr/lpp/bos for information pertinent to    *
*  this release of the AIX Operating System.                                  *
*                                                                             *
*                                                                             *
*******************************************************************************

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How to make the System Ring

July 28th, 2013

if you are a Shell Scripting Developer and all the time deveolpe Shell Scripts, if course you need to make your System Ring after finished the script or when it needs data from the user.

try this code on AIX
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how to set the Terminal Name on the top

July 24th, 2013

Nice way to separate between your terminals by it’s name not IP Address.

 

the default way, when you open SSH Terminal using Putty (or any other Communication program like kitty) The IP Address of the server
will be shown on the top of the terminal like the following Image:

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How to mount,unmount an ISO Image in AIX

July 19th, 2013

Sometimes you need to install package from AIX CD or install any other software like PowerHA on LPAR and the CD UNIT was located into another LPAR or you don’t have

the CD but you have the ISO Image for this Software.

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