Solaris

[AtW]

I remember in around 1992 year the local Uni I was handing around (because no computers were available in school) received a Sun workstation with Solaris, it was cute stuff, and when day was finished we could not figure out just how the **** to get the bloody 3.5'' disk out - eject command apparently was the one, this exotic workstation got stolen some weeks later - good riddance I say

[bored]

You can download OpenSolaris and install it on a VMWare instance so that you can play with it and at the same time browse the internet/read docs on Windows.

Check out http://opensolaris.org/os/article/20..._using_vmware/.

[Sysman]

The following was written for OS X, but if you ignore the ACL stuff it explains the Unix file permission fields. linky.

[TheFaQQer]

My first ever UNIX shell script i named as "test"
Took me 2 days before i finally got it to work.

HINT: Don't call your executable "test"

Did you please delete it afterwards?

[b0redom]

Tim,

You can always download Solaris 10 and install it on a PC...

Except it doesn't support SATA, so it'll need to be an old one.

[Spacecadet]

My first ever UNIX shell script i named as "test"
Took me 2 days before i finally got it to work.

HINT: Don't call your executable "test"

[Churchill]

Tim,

You can always download Solaris 10 and install it on a PC...

[b0redom]

TBH Solaris to most users is similar to Linux - certainly for familiarisation with scripts etc. Most big vendors are starting to provide certification on Linux, so if it's Oracle or whatever you need to play with, you could even try that.

[Ardesco]

to execute it on the command line use ./

eg

./myscript.sh

[BoredBloke]

Cheers everybody - I'll check it all out

[where did my id go?]

Sun regularly do a try before you buy thing where you can get a box for a month or so to play with. I'm sure that you'll have to think up some justification for the trial and suffer sales calls afterwards, but maybe worth a look.

[TheFaQQer]

You can find the O'Reilly books online here which have some good references if you need to find out how to do something.

[TheFaQQer]

No extension needed - it's the permissions on the file.

If you "ls -l" it shows the permissions - if there is an x in the permissions, then you can execute the file. e.g. -rwxr--r-- shows that you, your group and the world can read it, but only you can write to it or execute it.

If it's a script, then the file may have a .sh extension to show that it's a shell script.

[BoredBloke]

In the world of windows the files you run to kick off an application are .exe

Is there a similar thing in solaris?

I have never used Solaris and I'd be interested if anybody knows of any really basic guides to it - free ones!!