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That worked perfectly!!! Thank you so much - you guys rule

Yes that is exactly what I am trying to do. When I attempted to use your script above I am getting the following error:

sed: command garbled: a \

This worked to a point - it did not pass in the original lines from the list.txt file - just wrote out the 3 new lines for every line in the file - I need all 4 lines in final output. Sorry but I am...

I have a file that I need to add 3 new lines of text for every line in the file - when I attempt the sed scripting below I keep getting 'command garbled' errors. Any suggestions would be greatly...

Changing TZ worked - thanks so much for your help

I need to set a date varable within ksh that will set the date to the next day in the format 25-JUL-2013 - any help would be appreciated.

Ok - I have it working now - thanks so much for your help.

I just prints line with matching string - not previous 2 lines

Yes - when FAILED - I want to print two previous lines - I was showing what I didn't want to see and an example - I tried using grep 'string' -B 2 FILE but that is not working

I am trying to parse out a file using grep - I would like to use the -B option so that the grep command prints the previous 2 lines if/when my string is matched - listed below are two examples - one...

Works perfectly now! Thank you so much!!!

The input is a file with a different number on each line (es.out) - I want to add the numbers for a total in the output file (es.cnt)

Input -

252
428
1174
12
...

I tried that just now - same result.

I am trying to use an awk command within a ksh script but it is not working - I am able to run from command line with no problem. It does not err out - it just does not produce a file with final...

Example of a few lines of input file

/prod/feeds/intl/toyo/scripts/toyo_ftp.ksh
/prod/feeds/intl/twn/scripts/ftp.ksh
/prod/feeds/intl/twn/scripts/check_flag.ksh

I am replace the name of the...

I have a script that needs to read a file with a long list of /path/filenames - replace the name of the server in each file - and write the file to the same path with a date extension. This is the...

That made me check the Reference_File - someone had added lines that contained a special character - I removed the lines and now the 'egrep' is working as designed. Thanks!

egrep: syntax error

I have a script that has been running fine for about a month - now all of a sudden I am getting a syntax error using the egrep command. The command I am using is comparing two files and printing...

Thanks all for your very timely responses! The last post was the first I tried and it worked beautifully!

I have a reference file that needs to remain static and another file that may or may not have duplicate rows that match the reference file. I need help with a command that will delete any duplicate...