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Detecting disks under Solaris

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Ever needed to get Solaris to detect disks; the method depends on the version of Solaris. This article provides a how to

Listing files in a NetWorker saveset

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At first glance the answer this is not straight forward, but the answer is quite simple; Using two commands mminfo and nsrinfo we get the results.

Equivalent UNIX and DOS commands

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There are commands that do the same things in Windows DOS and from the command prompt as in UNIX, they just have a different syntax.

Solaris CLI keyboard shortcuts

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A short article providing various keyboard shortcuts for command line edit of any commands quick and easily.

emacs Quick Reference Guide

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Emacs commands are accompanied either by simultaneously holding down the control key or by first hitting the escape key.

vi Quick Reference Guide

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All commands in vi are preceded by pressing the escape key. Each time a different command is to be entered, the escape key needs to be used.