Currently I monitoring a particular file with a simple shell one-liner:

filesize=$(ls -lah somefile |  awk '{print $5}')

I'm aware that Perl has some nice modules …

I am working with an open-source UNIX tool that is implemented in C++, and I need to change some code to get it to do what I want. I would like to make the smallest possible change in hopes of gett …

Does anyone know how to ask powershell where something is?
For instance "which notepad" and it returns the directory where the notepad.exe is run from according to the current paths.

If I issue the find command as follows:

$find . -name *.ear

It prints out:

./dir1/dir2/earFile1.ear ./dir1/dir2/earFile2.ear ./dir1/dir3/earFile1. …

I'd like to redirect the stdout of process proc1 to two processes proc2 and proc3:

         proc2 -> stdout
       /
 proc1
       \ 
         proc3 -> stdout

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I have a program that spits out both standard error and standard out, and I want to run my pager less on the standard error, but ignore standard out. How do I do that?

Update:

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This is probably a complex solution.

I am looking for a simple operator like "> …

Or, more specifically, a list of Unix commands that do not have Windows counterparts? Creating them might be an interesting exercise.

I would like this list so that, as an exercise …

I've got it configured, but I want more from it...maybe Cygwin isn't the right tool, but I like how it provides a *nix-like environment within Windows.

I have some ksh scripts which I'd like to convert to run with bash instead.

Are there any useful on-line resources for this?

I'm really looking for a list of differences between the …