Thanks, an obvious one to some, but good for the newbs

Ever want to run multiple commands and go watch some TV while the numbers crunch (like while building a new kernel?)

The && command is your friend.

Example for kernel
make dep &&
make clean &&
make modules &&
make modules_install &&
make bzImage
And press enter, all command will execute, and after each finishes the next will start, if there were no errors from the first command ran. Now you don't have to sit there until make dep finishes to move on.

Yo Grand Master of the C

Couldnt you add those lines to a Script like this

#!/bin/sh

make dep &&
make clean &&
make modules &&
make modules_install &&
make bzImage


and call it compilekern.sh

then run this script and it would do it automatcally????

Yes Im lazy

he he he, even though my name may represent something in programming language, I really have no idea about scripting, so, if it works, then, yeah. But I have no idea. That's a good idea if it does though, and you wouldn't really need the && I believe. The script usually will wait until one thing is done to perform the next operation anyway I believe, so the && would be extra/un needed. But again, I don't know scripting, and this would only help with the kernel, where the && can be used anywhere you have to run more than 1 command after another.

Good idea though, thanks!

well anybody know if this would work send a stamped self addressed envelop to blue peter... ummm or even just reply here please

I don't understand that one dai? SASE to Blue Peter? I am not following? Would this be a "UK" thing? Thanks for any clarification.

Sorry MasterC Yes it would Blue Peter is a Long running Kids Show that all children in the UK grow up watching.

[drools]
And some Uni students still watched whilst Katie Hill was presenting.
[/drools]

Ohh yes especially with her infamous leopard skin mini skirts..........

mmmmmm sweet...............

Katie Hill was the best ever presenter of Blue Peter

...has nobody even heard of Valerie Singleton? Who is this Katie Hill?

anyone watch bananas in pajamas? or... anyone from hongkong, what's going on with that millenium tower. the discovery channel said that hongkong was planning to build one on a lake somewhere to house their citizens.

and masterc a very good tip indeed.

he he he, thanks I learned that one from my first attempt at LFS.

Please keep the threads in Website Questions & Suggestions on topic. I am moving this to General so the thread can continue. Thanks.

--jeremy

Katie Hill? Check out the Dave Grantham ladies site (non-porno). Or here.

Ok guys and gals, back to the topic

- RENICE CPU HOGS

have you ever wanted to automatically force a process that uses up most of the CPU.

renice 20 `ps -augxww | sort -rn +3 -4 | head -1 | awk '{print $2}'`

Note: Check your 'ps' command. Your arguments may differ.

- NICE NOT SO NICE

Nice is nice, but it isn't so nice sometimes on foreground jobs. The reason, if the system gets really busy your terminal session could hang waiting to get more CPU time.
It is possible that killing the job becomes impossible on a very system, since the CPU may never give the process enough CPU time to recognize the kill signal waiting.
Using nice on an interactive program, like vi, could also be a bad idea.

So play nice, with nice.

- STAT FOR THE INODE

The stat command is available on newer flavors of Unix and linux to provide inode information about a file.

% stat /etc/hosts

File: "/etc/hosts"
Size: 1348 Filetype: Regular File
Mode: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Device: 3,2 Inode: 294992 Links: 1
Access: Tue Aug 21 15:06:19
2001(00000.00:00:00)
Modify: Wed Aug 30 09:19:35 2000(00356.05:46:44)
Change: Wed Aug 30 09:19:35 2000(00356.05:46:44)

It also provides other useful information about files.

- CUT FROM STANDARD COMMANDS

To properly cut the output of unix standard commands; such as ls, ps; and properly handle them without all the extra spaces, use this:

% ls -lt| tr -s " " | cut -f6-10
% ls -lt| tr -s " " | < --do what ever-- >

tr -s " " ==> here tr in effect removes all the extra formatting extra spaces introduced by unix shell, for display, and translates in to format easy to work with.

If we dont use this tr, then the -c option of cut will be unreliable because of varying size field lengths in the output and also -f option will be unreliable because of extra formatting delimiters.

ls -lt | tr -s " "
ps -ef | tr -s " "

gives us proper output to properly extract data or columns.

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Regards,
Boris.