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I have a data file:

abc Text Text Text Unique Text
123 Text word Line Unique Text
fgh Text data Line Unique Text
789 Text Text Line Unique Text
543 Text Text Data Unique Text

and a...

Well, I tried and tried, neither option seemed to work, but then I noticed a line at the top of my Outlook window that said, "Extra line breaks in this message were removed.". I clicked on it and it...

If the file is just the contents as you show and you want it to be sorted in reverse order, then...

cat file|sort -kr1,1

Thank you for the response.
That somewhat works for me, in that it allows me to send the file as an attachment, that can be opened with wordpad and looks just fine, but I want to have the contents...

I have a file abc:

line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4

And I am successfully e-mailing the file, with this:

mail -s "contents of abc" jdoe@email.com <<EOF
cat abc
EOF

But the e-mail shows up...

This works...

add_num () {
for NUM in $1
do
sum=`expr $sum + $NUM`
echo sum $sum
done
}


sum=0
add_num 1
add_num 2

and gives this result...

sum 1
sum 3

If you are wanting the current system date in that format...

date +"%Y%M%d"

will produce...

20070903

I'm on a Unix 5.2 server and I want to be able to see my processes to verify they are active and which processor they are running on.

ps -l will show me the status of process...

In my script, I have the following command....

du -sk `ls -ltd sales12|awk '{print $11}'`|awk '{print $1}'

it returns the value

383283

I want to modify my script to capture that value...

Good idea, I'll think about doing just that!
Thanks! :)

I can do this that will produce a list of directories from my main directory

list=`ls ?? ???|grep -E "P|T"`
echo $list
TRN UT:

I don't know why it shows the colon following the UT directory....

Okay, the logic you show makes sense and should work for me.

I have a root directory called root. Within it there are 10 or so subdirectories each of varying size (in terms of name). Of those...

First, my apology for starting a new thread. What I am attempting is if I choose a, and it exists, then I'm out of the case/esac loop. If I choose, b, which does not exist, then I want to stay in...

Attempting to break from a case/esac paragraph while inside of a function. When executing the code below, entering the letter 'a', will prove that the directory exists, but the break command works...

Wrote the following loop to but if I use exit, then I break entirely from my script, but instead I want to break from the case/esac and go to the next line in my script. I guess I need to know how...