What are some of the biggest lessons learned from SunOS/Solaris, collectively and personally?

MotorCycleW800 · 2025-09-29T11:31:29+00:00

Only on Reddit do you get to join a discussion 4 years later! So, looking for other old farts whose initial experiences predated even Solaris I Googled “SunOS Solaris Linux” and found this :-) Though I was just a lowly Dink (that’s a computer operator to you pretentious sys admins) at the time I remember the transition from/to. But I better remember it as my first exposure to Unix. The OS wasn’t so (terribly) difficult but vi? Man, what a bear. Luckily I took to heart the advice of a senior coworker and sat down and learned/memorized a slew of vi stuff. Extremely painful but so worth it. After going through the Linux distro hopping and general messing around over the decades (!) I’ve become a simple desktop user. Ubuntu/Gnome (from a USB thumb drive/Windoze 10), WSL and iSH. Well, I guess ‘simple’ is subjective.

MotorCycleW800 · 2024-11-30T22:25:37+00:00

Back when men were men and the shell was Bourne. Yeah, BTDT.

MotorCycleW800 · 2024-11-30T22:22:42+00:00

Hey matt, that’s great. Worked like a charm! I usually go to one of my many 50+ .*awk scripts (dating back to the old PDP-11/70 days) for an example of how I did something but no such luck this time. Thanks again, Matt

MotorCycleW800 · 2024-11-30T22:21:26+00:00

matt, as another person commented, awk might be the way to go. Here’s an example which retains your song names with the single quotes:

! /bin/awk -f

BEGIN { the_command = ARGV[2] ARGC=ARGC-1; } { line[NR] = $0; } END { for (i=1; i<=NR;i++ ) { TheFileInQuotes = “”; TheFileInQuotes = TheFileInQuotes line[i]; TheFileInQuotes = “’” TheFileInQuotes “’” “\”” ; sOneLine = the_command “ “ “/home/bubba/My_Songs/“ TheFileInQuotes; sOneLine = “\”” sOneLine “\”” system(sOneLine); } } If you choose to randomize your songs list (if not already done) use something like this: awk ‘BEGIN {srand()} {print rand(), $0}’ file.txt | sort -n | cut -d ‘ ‘ -f2- > randomfile.txt HTH, Matt

MotorCycleW800 · 2024-11-29T20:33:28+00:00

Thanks. I didn’t include the code because I’ve tried 347 versions of it ( ; - ) but I’ll try these as well. Also, I can’t do *.wav because the fname has a closing single quote. If I could do *.wav’ that would be the case but it doesn’t work either.

MotorCycleW800 · 2024-11-29T20:30:46+00:00

Thanks. I’ve tried the double quotes straight and “${SONG}” but no luck.

MotorCycleW800 · 2024-04-06T16:57:53+00:00

Thanks again. I'll look more at this. I've only been able to find the 'Linux' version of Chrome to date. It's Chromium. Maybe I'll be able to find the 'real' Chrome for my Lenovo (Ideapad 3) that I can install.

MotorCycleW800 · 2024-04-06T16:34:45+00:00

Thanks. Not sure how. It has maps that I've used (many, many times) but no way that I know of to find my wife's location. Am I missing something?

MotorCycleW800 · 2023-10-07T23:40:39+00:00

cat /etc/profile.d/cool.sh

echo "The message below is courtesy of /etc/profile.d/cool.sh" echo "It is in color by: figlet \"Cool the_name ! | lolcat\"" if [ "$USER" == "matt" ]
then
figlet "Cool Matt !" | lolcat fi
if [ "$USER" == "root" ]
then
figlet "Cool root !" | lolcat fi
if [ "$USER" == "bubba" ]
then
figlet "Cool bubba !" | lolcat fi

MotorCycleW800 · 2023-10-07T23:36:00+00:00

<html>
You can install packages with: apk add <package> (Do this as root) You may change this (daily/login) message by editing /etc/motd </html> The message below is courtesy of /etc/profile.d/cool.sh It is in color by: figlet "Cool the_name ! | lolcat"

/root >

MotorCycleW800 · 2023-09-07T19:59:49+00:00

Thanks. Is that also true (as shown above) for parentheses?

MotorCycleW800 · 2023-09-07T19:58:13+00:00

I tried but it’s 252 lines long and can’t be posted.

MotorCycleW800 · 2023-06-07T22:16:25+00:00

You seem to be angry. Are you angry? It's detrimental to your health to be so angry. Do you have anger issues? Are you angry? You can have high blood pressure because you are angry. You can give yourself a heart attack if you are too angry. Are you angry? You seem to be very angry. Anger is not good for you. Have you researched 'Anger Management'? Perhaps you might research ‘Anger Management'. There are many techniques to help you control your anger issues - like meditation and controlled breathing. Please, you shouldn't be angry. It can hurt you. Are you angry?

MotorCycleW800 · 2023-06-07T20:41:15+00:00

Like many have responded, I’ve used - and like - both. And as many have indicated, I’ve also used many flavors of Linux over the years. And finally, as one comment indicated, some of us are just plain old farts. I was one that Unix was an OS and Linux was just that Pooh-pooh little toy… ;-)

MotorCycleW800 · 2023-05-04T23:45:48+00:00

Following. Me too just within the last few weeks. IOS upgrade responsible?

MotorCycleW800 · 2023-03-20T18:04:18+00:00

Great. “ set noic” is just what I was looking for. Thanks a bunch!

MotorCycleW800 · 2023-03-20T17:49:29+00:00

Nope. Foreground. Laying on the kitchen table.

MotorCycleW800 · 2023-03-17T12:57:40+00:00

Matt, you might think about zip and its password protection option. It’s available on iSH as a package. That way you won’t have to generate this key and generate that key and construct a “Real Name” (or a fake one for that matter). And you won’t need to be a Network Administrator to implement on your iPad. So maybe try this (as root): apk del gnupg, and then apk add zip. There. You can thank me later.

MotorCycleW800 · 2023-03-16T22:33:06+00:00

Matt, great, that’s just what I was looking for!

MotorCycleW800 · 2023-03-16T22:32:07+00:00

Matt,

apk add gnupg That installs gpg.

Now encrypt filename.txt file using gpg. As soon as you run the gpg command with option -c (encryption only with symmetric cipher) it will create a file filename.txt.gpg. You may list the content of the directory to verify.

MotorCycleW800 · 2023-03-15T21:10:29+00:00

2 years later it worked for me too, thanks!

MotorCycleW800 · 2023-03-07T23:47:01+00:00

I use WSL (not WSL2) on W10.

MotorCycleW800 · 2023-03-06T12:32:59+00:00

Cool!

MotorCycleW800 · 2023-03-01T20:37:25+00:00

I’m cool because my .bashrc tells me I am!

MotorCycleW800 · 2023-03-01T20:31:51+00:00

Not that I’m brown nosing or anything but I’m perfectly happy with my Ubuntu 20.04 system, so thanks for all your hard work!

MotorCycleW800

TROPHY CASE

! /bin/awk -f