Skifter

The simple answer is... YES! [code] firefox "http://url.goes.here/" [/code] The better way to do this, assuming you had in mind a graphical *nix environment running gnome or kde (really just guessing here) would be to invoke xdg-open awesomeness. I only recently started using this, so let me know if I'm …

[QUOTE=Shreerang;1157589]Hey all, I have written a small script to download certain files from an ftp site. I use the wget function.I'd like to get a progress-bar with zenity to show the advancement of the wget function. Can anyone suggest a solution? Thanx, Shreerang Patwardhan.[/QUOTE] I had to look into this …

[icode]cut[/icode] is my personal favorite for trimming one column, like a line number repeatedly. simple syntax, fast to type.

A script is simply a list of commands that you would type on the command line. It's a text file that starts with a hash-bang (#!) and the program to run it, in this case /bin/bash or /bin/sh . Every following line is executed in that environment, one at a …

I'm a grep fan and rarely use sed or awk. To pull the first and last name that often precede the address you can use this. [code] grep -o "[[:alnum:]]*[[:blank:]][[:alnum:]]*[[:blank:]][[:graph:]]*@[[:graph:]]*" [/code] This adds the first/last name preceding the address, by looking for all letters and numbers in any amount preceding …