Ownership Of Unix Copyright Headed to Trial


Linux

A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a judge erred in August 2007 by granting the copyright to Novell. The panel ordered a trial to determine ownership.
Novell, a software and computer infrastructure company, has been locked in a yearslong legal battle with The SCO Group Inc. of Lindon, Utah, over ownership to the copyright.
SCO said the ruling paves the way for resumption of the court case.
SCO filed for bankruptcy protection in 2007, drained by unsuccessfully filing lawsuits claiming its software code was misappropriated by developers of the open-source Linux operating system.
“For us its a [...]

Capitalize the First Letter of Every Word - Sh Script


Linux

Linux has powerful text conversion programs built in. Proper name and article title are a few examples of words that should have the first letter capitalized. If this needs to be done with large volumes of text, a shell script can save time.

phrase=”text to be converted here“;
capitals=$(for i in $phrase; do convert=`echo -n “${i:0:1}” | tr “[:lower:]” “[:upper:]“`; echo -n “${convert}${i:1} “; done | sed ’s/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//’)
echo $capitals;
output=”Text To Be Converted Here”

Search for a File in Linux


Linux

Locating any file on a linux operating system can be done quickly from the command line.
Step 1
Index your file system with updatedb. This makes a list of files so that later searches won’t have to look in the entire span of directories each time. The process can later be added to a cronjob and happen automatically. Run the Command:
prompt$: updatedb
Step 2
Once the directory has been updated, the way to find the location of a desired file is with locate. An alternative is the find command, which can take a longer time to finish searching the entire system.
prompt$: locate filename
Its that [...]