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Commands tagged solaris

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Terminal - Commands tagged solaris - 22 results
pflags core.12462 | grep "core "
2012-03-01 22:07:49
User: bertge
Functions: grep
Tags: solaris dump analysis
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determine process from solaris crash dump
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find . -type f -exec awk '/linux/ { printf "%s %s: %s\n",FILENAME,NR,$0; }' {} \;
2011-11-29 12:32:06
User: Neo23x0
Functions: awk find printf
Tags: solaris find grep unix aix recursive content
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Rekursive Grep on Solaris or AIX Systems without GNU egrep -r funcionality
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truss date 2>&1 | awk '/^time/{print $3}'
2010-07-29 07:26:11
User: winky
Functions: awk date
Tags: solaris date epoch
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solaris: get seconds since epoch
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perl -e 'foreach (@ARGV) {@T=stat($_); print localtime($T[8])." - ".$_."\n"}'
2010-05-20 16:19:17
User: putnamhill
Functions: perl
Tags: perl solaris ls file time
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Print time and year of file in Solaris (or other Unix ls command that does not have a simple
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perl -e '@F = `ls -1`;while (<@F>){@T = stat($_);print "$_ = " . localtime($T[8]) . "\n";}'
2010-05-20 15:02:51
User: hckhckhck
Functions: perl
Tags: perl solaris ls file time
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Print time and year of file in Solaris (or other Unix ls command that does not have a simple "--full-list")

Solaris 'ls' command does not have a nice '--full-time' arg to make the time show after a year has passed. So I spit this out quick. It hates spaces in file names.

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utime(){ python -c "import time; print(time.strftime('%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y', time.localtime($1)))"; }
2010-05-14 08:00:44
User: 4Aiur
Functions: python
Tags: Date manipulation Linux solaris unix date function time zsh convert
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Easily decode unix-time (funtion)
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utime(){ awk -v d=$1 'BEGIN{print strftime("%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y", d)}'; }
2010-05-14 08:00:04
User: 4Aiur
Functions: awk
Tags: Date manipulation Linux solaris unix date function time zsh convert
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Easily decode unix-time (funtion)
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utime(){ date -d "1970-01-01 GMT $1 seconds"; }
2010-05-14 07:49:49
User: 4Aiur
Functions: date
Tags: Date manipulation Linux solaris unix date function time zsh convert
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Easily decode unix-time (funtion)
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utime { date -d @$1; }
2010-05-12 12:21:15
User: deltaray
Functions: date
Tags: Date manipulation Linux solaris unix date function time zsh convert
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Easily decode unix-time (funtion)

More recent versions of the date command finally have the ability to decode the unix epoch time into a human readable date. This function makes it simple to utilize this feature quickly.

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utime(){ perl -e "print localtime($1).\"\n\"";}
2009-11-06 12:58:10
User: MoHaG
Functions: perl
Tags: Date manipulation Linux perl solaris unix date function time zsh convert
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Easily decode unix-time (funtion)

A shell function using perl to easily convert Unix-time to text.

Put in in your ~/.bashrc or equivalent.

Tested on Linux / Solaris Bourne, bash and zsh. using perl 5.6 and higher.

(Does not require GNU date like some other commands)

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lucreate -n be1 [-c be0] -p zpool1
2009-11-02 06:31:57
User: cifr
Tags: solaris zfs lucreate
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Creates Solaris alternate boot environment on another zpool.

PS: 'lustatus' gives the list of all alternate boot environments.

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find . \( ! -name . -prune \) \( -type f -o -type l \)
2009-09-12 15:58:56
User: mobidyc
Functions: find
Tags: Linux solaris find aix hp-ux
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find only current directory (universal)

you must be in the directory to analyse

report all files and links in the currect directory, not recursively.

this find command ahs been tested on hp-ux/linux/aix/solaris.

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fuser -k `who -u | awk '$6 == "old" { print "/dev/"$2'}`
2009-09-07 03:36:43
User: lbonanomi
Functions: awk fuser
Tags: Linux solaris
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Force logout after 24 hours idle

Shell timeout variables (TMOUT) can be very liberal about what is classified as 'activity', like having an editor open. This command string will terminate the login shell for an user with more than a day's idle time.

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perl -e 'print scalar(gmtime(1234567890)), "\n"'
2009-08-25 15:00:52
User: andrew112358
Functions: perl
Tags: Date manipulation solaris date epoch
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convert unixtime to human-readable
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echo "0t${currentEpoch}=Y" | /usr/bin/adb
2009-08-25 12:17:01
User: verboEse
Functions: echo
Tags: Date manipulation solaris date epoch
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convert unixtime to human-readable

this works on Solaris, so not better than the "only-GNU"-tool :-(

I think, there is no one-liner for this, that will work on all *nix-es

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/usr/proc/bin/pfiles $PID | egrep "sockname|port"
2009-07-04 08:26:54
User: sengork
Functions: egrep
Tags: solaris
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Solaris - check ports/sockets which process has opened
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pkgchk -l -p <full path to the file>
2009-07-04 08:22:11
User: sengork
Tags: solaris
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Find which package a file belongs to on Solaris

Find which package a file belongs to on Solaris along with it's packaging system metadata.

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more /var/adm/messages
2009-05-29 12:10:18
User: miccaman
Functions: more
Tags: solaris
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view solaris system logs

read system logs of sun solaris 9

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init 6
2009-05-29 07:44:05
User: miccaman
Functions: init
Tags: solaris Reboot
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sun solaris 9 complete restart

init states on solaris are numbered

init 0 boot with prompt

init 5 shutdown

init 6 reboot

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vmstat 1 10 | /usr/xpg4/bin/awk -f ph-vmstat.awk
2009-05-04 04:55:00
User: MarcoN
Functions: vmstat
Tags: solaris awk vmstat
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Replace Solaris vmstat numbers with human readable format

% cat ph-vmstat.awk

# Return human readable numbers

function hrnum(a) {

b = a ;

if (a > 1000000) { b = sprintf("%2.2fM", a/1000000) ; }

else if (a > 1000) { b = sprintf("%2.2fK", a/1000) ; }

return(b) ;

}

# Return human readable storage

function hrstorage(a) {

b = a ;

if (a > 1024000) { b = sprintf("%2.2fG", a/1024/1024) ; }

else if (a > 1024) { b = sprintf("%2.2fM", a/1024) ; }

return(b) ;

}

OFS=" " ;

$1 !~ /[0-9].*/ {print}

$1 ~ /[0-9].*/ {

$4 = hrstorage($4) ;

$5 = hrstorage($5) ;

$9 = hrnum($9) ;

$10 = hrnum($10) ;

$17 = hrnum($17) ;

$18 = hrnum($18) ;

$19 = hrnum($19) ;

print ;

}

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lockstat -I -i 977 -s 30 -h sleep 1 > /tmp/profile.out
2009-03-13 13:17:53
User: garylittle
Functions: sleep
Tags: solaris kernel profile
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Display kernel profile of currently executing functions in Solaris.

Lockstat will sample the kernel 977 times per second, and print out the functions that it sees executing on the CPU during the sample. The -s 10 switch tells lockstsat to not only print that function, but also show the call stack (up to 10 deep).

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ifconfig -a | nawk 'BEGIN {FS=" "}{RS="\n"}{ if($1~ /:/) {printf "%s ", $1}}{ if($1=="inet") {print " -- ",system("arp "$2)}}'|egrep -v "^[0-9]$"
2009-03-02 23:15:13
User: leprasmurf
Functions: ifconfig
Tags: bash solaris nawk ifconfig egrep
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NICs, IPs, and Mac

Needed to get the Mac of various devices on a solaris box, but didn't have root. This command used awk to display the Network device, the IP, and the MAC a line at a time.

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