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I'm conducting an unofficial poll to find out what shell everybody is using in OS X and why. I'm a novice Unix user and am interested in learning which shell everybody think is the best and most usefull. I'm not that interested in the programming or scripting capabilitys yet, but let your...

I cannot use the root terminal: it says _tcsh: /bin/tcsh: Exec format error note that I can normally log on graphically as root, and use my other users' shell, and execute sudo command... please help me...:(

I've got an infestation of Nimba on my samba share. It left '.eml' files all over the directory structure. I'd like to delete all these in one fell swoop without going into each directory and deleting them individually... I'm thinking something like.... $> locate *.eml | rm -f $0 but that...

Hi, I have a couple of questions, related to my ongoing quest to find the ultimate backup script. Basically, I want to set up a script to backup the files in my user space once a day. I used to use Applescript to do this, but it required me to actively execute the script every day, and now...

Hi I am running the script shell runsh.sh that starts netbeans or forte. This script creates a CLASSPATH variable and I would like to add a new .jar file. How do you add a new path to CLASSPATH when it already has values. I would like to do something like CLASSPATH = CLASSPATH + mypath...

What I'm wanting is to create a shell script that'll empty the trash of my regular user account as root. I don't know if this is possible using sudo in the terminal or not. I don't want to put in the password if there's anyway around it. If I do have to put in the pass I'd like it to be in an...

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I'm trying to set up a script to run from the script menu: #!/bin/csh mysqladmin flush-logs I actually want to due more than that, but it sufficiently illustrates my problem -- the console says: "command not found: mysqladmin". This same command, however, works just fine from...

I'm trying to set up a script to run from the script menu: #!/bin/csh mysqladmin flush-logs I actually want to due more than that, but it sufficiently illustrates my problem -- the console says: "command not found: mysqladmin". This same command, however, works just fine from a terminal...

What is the difference between SSH and SSL, which is used for secured connections over HTTP ? Is it also possible to use something like a SSH - Port for secure WebSites???

Hi how can I create an icon in mac os x, that runs a script shell that has arguments. I installed netbeans and to run it I need to go in terminal moce and type : ./runide.sh -jdkhome System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home -uicom.apple.mrj.swing.MacLookAndFeel -fontsize 10...

Hiya Everyone, I need a bit of help from someone who is savy with shell scripts and osx. I have a shell script that I use on the SGI for renaming groups of files. It's pretty cool. Anyhow it works great under IRIX but has some difficulties under OSX because certain command run differently...

Has anyone had any experience with using Pass phrase and secure shell? How did you get it to work? Did you have to do anything special? I followed the man pages but I do never got prompted for my pass phrase. Thanks Bob Bader

Does anyone know of a way to send AppleEvents from a shell script, i.e., from the Terminal? Wouldn't that be powerful! -Rob

Is there a way I can invoke a shell script by double-clicking a desktop icon? Certainly I can do a lot with AppleScript, but it is not clear to me if AppleScript can invoke a shell script. On WinDoze you can do a certain amount of this by coding your command into a shortcut. I can't figure...

Remember how you could get the terminal window to immediatelly disappear when the shell process exited in PB? The setting is still there... Point your favourite text editor to ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist Find the rows: <key>ShellExitAction</key> <integer>2</integer>...

OK, so I'm trying to set up a shell script that tests if TCP is working and then restarts if it is not... Since I need to remotely admin my OS X box and sometimes TCP/sshd dies, having this script running daily as a crontab item would be great. Because then the system would reboot if there is...

I've successfully compiled bash 2.04, but how do I change the default shell? I read somewhere that it has to be done through Netinfo, but I haven't a clue how. Any help would be appreciated.

Logged out and ran OS 9 for a few hours. When I looged back into OSX, i can't run any terminal apps, it says it can't finds /bin/tcsh and to make sure it is there and enabled or something similar. Okay so how do I look around the file system with a shell? Can someone help, or suggest where...

Does any one know if it is possible to create icons on the desktop that will run a shell script? Is there some way to run a shell script from the finder display.