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Thanks for the help.



Unfortunately, this isn't exaclty what I meant.

What I wanted was to be able to use VB6 to open a command prompt (which I've managed) and then telnet onto a server...

Hi,

The title of this post is a little vague but I couldn't think of what to call it.

In Unix you can perform the following command
ftp -v IPADDRESS <<END
put FILE
END

In a DOS...

Oh dear!

I've just figured out what's happened.

The file was created in Windows and I've not performed a dos2unix on it.

It must've been struggling with the control characters.

Thank...

That doesn't work correctly.

It removes sections of the file

<FUNCTION>
<PRODUCTS>
</PRODUCT>> DATA="1354298820"/> ACTION="amend" CODE="WESTCOAXX">
</PRODUCT>>...

I appreciate the help, but putting the awk script in a file provides the same error and using nawk doesn't bring back the data I want.

It looks to have stripped most of the data out.
...

Thanks for the response, but I get the folowing errors
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: illegal statement near line 1
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: illegal statement near line 1

All I...

Hi,

I posted a topic requesting help with a script to replace certain things in an XML file

https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/202943-replace-string-newline-2.html

The...

Sorry to bump this old thread, but I'm having issues with this again.

I'm using the following
printf '%s\n' '1,$s/^ *//' '1,$s/ *$//' 'g/^<PRODUCT / .,/^<\/PRODUCT>/j' w | ed -s file

But...

Thanks Don.

I realised what Peasant meant with his post and it worked perfectly.

Thanks for the info on touch -m though.

Thanks very much, Peasant.

I looked through the man page for touch and must've missed it.

Thanks!

Hi,

Is it possible to amend a file without changing the last modified date?

If it is, how do you do it?

If it's not, is there a way to create an empty file with the same timestamp as...

Thanks that works perfectly!

Hi,

I'm having some trouble with using "case...esac" in Bash.

I've googled it and am stuggling to understand the syntax and how to do certain things.

Firstly, I want to be able to choose...

Sorry Lem, I must have been replying at the same time as you.

I've just tried yours and it says
sed: command garbled

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I realised that, but even when I do so it doesn't appear to be any different to the original file.

I've just tried with nawk and I no longer get the errors but nothing appears to change.

Any suggestions?

Thanks for the quick reply

Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work for me.

When I run it, it says
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: illegal statement near line 1
awk: syntax error near...

Hi,

I'm struggling with a string replacement.

I have an XML file which is in the following layout
<FUNCTION>
<PRODUCTS>
<PRODUCT CODE="PRODUCE" ACTION="amend" VALIDATE="no">
...

Hi,

On our servers I have been removing files to clear up some diskspace.

If I do an ls -ltr command I can see a folder with quite a lot of data in it.

When I've gone into this folder and...

Thanks Funksen, raw works for me too!

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Sorry to bother you again.

When I tried this previously, I...

Thanks for the quick replies

Franklin52
When I try your method I get the following errors
./test.sh: read: illegal option: -d
read: usage: read [-r] [-p prompt] [-a array] [-e] [name ...]...

Hi,

I'm sorry if this has already been posted somewhere but I can't seem to find it on the forums (or anywhere on google :( )

I am writing a script where a user must enter a single character...

Thanks for the quick replies.

radoulov - I tired your method and didn't bring back any results. I'm not sure what I did wrong.

I tried
sed 's/></>\n</g' COMPGEAR.txt2010-07-01T083239.xml
...

Hi,

I have an XML file which is all on one line.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><FUNCTION><PRODUCTS><PRODUCT CODE="PROD1" ACTION="amend" VALIDATE="no"><SUPPLIER PRODUCT="SUPPPROD1"...