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Hi, I have a string e.g. idiotboy|is|trying|to|count|how|many|pipes|are|in|this|string| How can I count how many pipes there are in the string? grep only returns the string itself I can While read pipe|;do tr -s "|" "|\n" $pipe|wc -l;done but I thought there might be another way which is...

Hi, If I install Red Hat Linux (latest version) on a server (pc) which is dual processor, will I experience any problems and more importantly, if I have an application that utilises paralell processing will this correctly be assigned both processors at run time? Sorry for the vagueness...

Hi, I have an Ultra 1. It is running Solaris 8. The OS is installed correctly and is behaving normally. I wish to connect it to my hub so that I can telnet to it from elsewhere within my house only. My /etc/hosts looks like this 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.0.30 ultra1 loghost 169.254.164.12...

Hi, I just bought a ultrasparc1. I noticed at boot up that the spec said that I had 128 megs ram. I was sold the machine thinking it had 256 megs ram. Do I need to do anything so that I can use that ram. I haven't looked inside the machine to confirm that there is in fact 256 ram. I...

Hi, I've got the syntax for the case statement in korn shell (running on Solaris) but I can't figure out how to pose a question and read the answer as the input to the case statement. Do I just print "Quesion:y/n" read ans ans="y" case $ans in y) print "blah...

Many thanks for the help. Is this .bashprofile right? I can execute commands in their respective directories e.g. /sbin/shutdown -h 1 whilst pwd = /sbin but not execute it elsewhere using shutdown -h 1. I should be able to shouldn't I? Or am I being stupid? .bashprofile if [-f...

I have installed redhat Linux 6.2 on an 486 with no problems. No reported errors. However, whenever I try to invoke a command (e.g. adduser, shutdown, wall,) the command line informs me that no such command exists, despite everything being in my /sbin. Can anyone help. My aim is to run...