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AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive, pronounced "ay eye ex") is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM for several of its computer platforms.

AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive, pronounced "ay eye ex") is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM for several of its computer platforms. Originally released for the IBM 6150 RISC workstation, AIX now supports or has supported a wide variety of hardware platforms, including the IBM RS/6000 series, and later IBM POWER and PowerPC-based systems, IBM System i, System/370 mainframes, PS/2 personal computers, and the Apple Network Server. AIX is based on UNIX System V with 4.3 BSD-compatible extensions. It is one of four commercial operating systems that are presently certified to The Open Group's UNIX 03 standard. (The others are Mac OS X, Solaris and HP-UX.)

The AIX family of operating systems debuted in 1986, became the standard operating system for the RS/6000 series on its launch in 1990, and is still actively developed by IBM. It is currently supported on IBM Power Systems alongside IBM i and Linux. AIX was the first operating system to utilize journaling file systems, and IBM has continuously enhanced the software with features like processor, disk and network virtualization, dynamic hardware resource allocation (including fractional processor units), live kernel updates and reliability engineering ported from its mainframe designs.

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How can I compare two directories, one being a remote directory?

I want to compare two directories, one is local and the other is on another machine. How can I do that? Can I do it with diff?
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Is it possible to have an AIX virtual machine running on Windows?

A couple of years ago I was told this is not possible, well... actually i didn't understand why. As time goes by, so are days off our lives, is it still impossible? Or now there are some solutions?
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How to display man page with a specific path?

There are some binaries and corresponding man pages on the IBM AIX system I am working with (/some/path/bin and /some/path/man), but neither bin nor man directory are in my $PATH or $MANPATH . I would like to view the specific man page. How do I…
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AIX: meaning of lslpp type-column

Running lslpp -L yields the following (shortened) output: Fileset Level State Type Description (Uninstaller) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DirectorCommonAgent 6.3.3.1 …
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Find top N oldest files without printf in find command on AIX system

I am trying to find a solution similar to the one used below to find the Top N oldest files (modification time) on my AIX system starting from a given directory and digging through all sub-directories as well under it. Unfortunately printf is not…
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AIX: find non-empty directories

In many unix systems, you could do something like find . -type d ! -empty In an AIX system, -empty doesn't seem to be recognized. Any ideas on how I could do the same thing?
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UNIX command for deleting / removing files on today's date

I want to remove all the files in the directory I am in currently in that were created today. So if today is April 3rd then the UNIX commond I am asking for would remove someFile2, someFile3, someFile4 and someFile5. This command would not remove…
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AIX 7.1 su root password bug?

In our AIX 7.1 machine there is a weird bug we've ran into.. If you are logged into the AIX box via SSH as a regular user and you try to su - you get prompted for the password, lets say our password is "P@$$w0rd23", you can type "P@$$w0rd2ANYTHING"…
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Delete old log files in AIX

I am trying write a script to delete old log files in \var\log\applog\nmon on my AIX system. We usually get alerts that the file system is almost full and at the moment delete old files by hand. So basically what i am looking for is a script that I…
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How should I install Mercurial on AIX 6.5 without root privilege?

Is there a way to install Mercurial on AIX 6.5 without root? I'm a physics student and am developing code on the IBM cluster in our college and don't have root privilege. Several weeks ago I decided to use Mercurial to help control my code. I've…
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Would a user with admin=true and root have the same privileges on AIX?

Does a user in /etc/security/user with the parameter admin set to true (admin = true) have the same privileges as the root user? According to IBM (full information here): admin Defines the administrative status of the user. Possible values are:…
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How do I monitor or view the thread count of a certain process on AIX?

How do I monitor or view the thread count of a certain process on AIX?
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Fastest way to get creation and last modification times of a lot of files

Given a directory a sh pattern which yields a subset of files directly in this directory (like *.log) a sh pattern which can, given a filename, what is the fastest way (in ksh) to obtain for each file filtered in by the pattern: its name the…
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is there any way to install AIX on a normal desktop for practice purpose?

is is possible with any emulator like QEMU or PearPC ? or if not possible where can we get AIX box access ?
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tar command - how to extract one file to specific directory

Is there a way to extract a single file from a tar file to a specific directory? In fact, I am dealing with a .tgz file so, I am attempting something like this : gunzip -c mytargzfile.tgz | tar xvf - path/to/myfile -C /tmp In order to extract a file…
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