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Hi Folks,

Thanks to everybody who took the time to reply. And especially to the last two posters for sharing such elegant yet simple code.

Exactly, what I was looking for.

Thanks

rogers42

Hi Folks,

I have a text file which may or may not have any data.
I would like to email the file, via a Korn shell script, if the file is not empty.

I am fiddling around with the wc -l command,...

Thanks for the tips folks. Much appreciated.

rogers42

Hi,

I would like to display the following message from my shell (Korn) script

Copy "old_file.txt" to "new_file.txt"

My code looks as follows

print "Copy "old_file.txt" to "new_file.txt""...

Thanks. Both the suggestions worked. Since I am planning on calling sed for the same file but for multiple strings, I notice the file takes a lot of abuse. Hence, I have decided to go with nawk.
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Hi Folks,

How can I make the following to work from a korn shell?

old="OLDSTRING"
new="NEWSTRING"
file="myfile.txt"
sed -n 's/$old/$new/gp' $file

Thanks in advance

rogers42