We needed to rename a whole load of files containing the ? character yesterday. The following command did the trick and is saved here for the next time I need to do it.

for file in * ; do mv $file `echo $file | sed 's/\?//'` ; done

I’m working at home today studying for my AIX 5.1 exam. There was a funny paragraph in the redbook documentation –

Wa tape drive with ribbon hanging out the front of the cartridge may not function properly in the tape drive.”

Talk about stating the obvious!

AIX Command Crib sheet has a useful quick reference guide for AIX – not sure what version of aix though.

I downloaded and installed Webmin , a web front end to administer unix boxes, on one of our AIX boxes yesterday.Looks really good and a nice frontend, instead of smit, to do things. I might roll this out to the helpdesk guys as it will make it easier for them to maintain and support the unix boxes we have on site. The only down side is the rpm install wouldn’t work – I had to download the tar file and run setup from that.

One of our customers had a problem with their F50 server hanging with a 518 on the LED display when it was rebooted.