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MySQL: Find Out Which Table is Consuming Resources

by on December 23, 2008 · 3 comments

Q. How do I find out which table is consuming resources under MySQL Database server from UNIX shell prompt?

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How To Find Files by Content Under UNIX

by on September 21, 2008 · 23 comments

Q. I had written lots of code in C for my school work and saved it as source code under /home/user/c/*.c and *.h. How do I find files by content such as string or words (function name such as main() under UNIX shell prompt?

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What Are Linux / UNIX Shells?

by on June 17, 2008 · 0 comments

Can you explain me UNIX shell? What are Shells?

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Bash Shell Loop Over Set of Files

by on May 11, 2008 · 33 comments

How do I run shell loop over set of files stored in a current directory or specified directory?

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Find and Delete File If It Is More Than One Hour Old in UNIX Shell

by on April 20, 2008 · 2 comments

How do I find out if a file is more than one hour old in a UNIX shell and take action on all matching file such as delete or move files.

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Printing output of c program to a file in Linux

by on August 17, 2007 · 5 comments

Q. I’ve written a small program that does something useful for me. I always get output on screen. Sometime I need to send output to a file. How do I print output of my program to a file w/o making any changes to code? A. Bash shell (and many other modern UNIX shell) supports the [...]

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Perl Display And Pass Command Line Arguments With @argv

by on March 20, 2007 · 15 comments

How do I read or display command-line arguments with Perl?

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