RonK's questions

I want to write a script (or preferably an alias) that does the following:

1. Find all the files matching a pattern *.jar
2. Iterate over all those files, and run jar tvf <jar file name> | grep <Some argument>
3. Print if a jar contains a file with a name that matches the argument

I'm working on tcsh and would prefer not to open a new shell since I want this as an alias and not a script - is it doable?

I want to echo/printf a dollar sign into a file - but echo $ > myfile or such does not work (not surprising).

I tried escaping it like echo \$ > myfile but it is also not working.

What is the correct way to perform it?

I'm working with TCSH on SunOs.

I want to get a user's real life name based to print during the login script.

I'm using currently the following command:
finger | grep $LOGNAME | head -1 | awk '{print $2 " " $3}'

Is there any better way? I did not see in finger's man page that it has an argument to get only the real life name.

I'm using TCSH on a SunOs machine.

I want to create an alias that displays the latest log in a certain directory - something like: ls -lat *log* | tail -1 | less

The above command does not work as the output of the ls -lat command does not produce a single final name but a full list of columns.

Any simple solution?

I know that in KSH, if I write export A=B the process which invoked my script can evaluate ${A}, and if I write A=B, then ${A} will have no value outside of my script.

How can this be done in TCSH? I only know of the style: setenv A B to set value for variables

I have a tcsh script that sets aliases during login. It seems like the last line in the file is not executed. If I put a new line after it - it works fine.

Example - bad:

...  
...  
...  
alias psu 'ps -fu ${LOGNAME}' <-- This does not run!!!

Example - good:

...  
...  
...  
alias psu 'ps -fu ${LOGNAME}' <-- This runs fine!!!
--> Empty line here

Any idea why?

Any idea what the autolist argument means? I could'nt find anything about it in the manual.

Probably a newby's question - I saw the command stty erase ^H in one of our log-in script and wanted to know what it does. Does it work on TCSH? or is it only applicable to KSH?

I am preparing a set of instructions for automating an installation of some application on our team's computers and as part of that automation I need to add User Environment Variables and System Environment Variables. We are using both Windows XP and Windows 7

I wanted to do it using a *.reg file that will add these variables. So I have several questions:

Is the following correct for User Environment Variables:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment]
"TEST"="ABC"'

Is the following correct for System Environment Variables:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment]
"TEST2"="XYZ"'

What is the difference between:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment]
and [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Session Manager\Environment]

I want to update the PATH environment variable, can I do something like:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment]
"PATH"="C:\temp\;%PATH%"'

Thanks.

Just wanted to know - is there a standard path where uname is installed? e.g. /usr/bin/uname or /bin/uname

I'm asking with regards to HP-UX, AIX, SunOS and RedHat Linux

Is there a common path in which all of the above contain uname? If not, how can I know on which OS my script is executing?