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Smokin' that will work brilliantly. Thanks so much tmarikle, and for the quick response. You rock!

Hello all, I have a list of reports for stores that are numbered like:
s001845,s000022,s198490,s020048,s002385

however the users are displaying the reports as:
1845,22,198490,20048,2385

It...

I guess I was looking for a specific command, but a grep will work. I guess I can get really creative and make a script with all kinds of cool options. Thanks for the post Jim, I appriciate it.

Is there a shell command (Solaris v8 ksh) that will allow me to find in the vast directory tree, specific criteria contained in possibly multiple ascii files? Kind of like a find-in kind of thing.

Don't know about find, but you could pipe an awk command, something like:

find ...stuff | awk -F/ '{print $4}'

that is to say that your data from the find will always be show up like:...

Well I echo the results of:
file1=$( awk -F: '{ print $1 }' $testfile.lst | sort | uniq )
and it's all on one line instead of in individual rows in a single column. I guess it would be possible to...

Hello all, I have two flat files that are colon delineated and I am trying to run a compare (Solaris v8 ksh) of $1 within a script to access a mysql database based on the results. Unix is telling me...

Right on, thanks bakunin. I am taking an alternate approach with this script. I havn't worked with functions much and arrays at all, so I am making a script entirely based on this to attempt to...

Wow it works like a champ, how cool is that? Thanks to the both of you for you help.

So I Googled around a little, and everyone shows how to do use it but not really any discription on what...

nope didn't change the results. Oh well, anyone??

OK just noticed something. If I change the:
set -A reportid $(cat $SHDIR/description.lst $1)
to
set -A reportid $(cat $SHDIR/description.lst $0)
maybe it may work. I will check real quick.

I have a shell script (Solaris v8 ksh) loading an array from a flat file. An exaple of that flat file is below. It contains white-spaces, and carrage returns. When I try to load the first line as...

The move takes about five + min to complete. Because the script doesn't pause, the remainder of the script will attempt to capture the same report that is being moved, as it has not been fully...

As the script stands it executes the move and immediately jumps to the next group of statements. This is merely a small addition piece to the larger script.

The following will give you a flat file list of files over two gig; maybe you can incorporate them into a find script or something.

ls -As1 anydir > dir.lst
sed '/total/d' dir.lst >...

hello all, I have a script (Solaris v8 ksh) monitoring an inbound directory for reports. The script will then capture the report based on a set of circumstances. However I am unable to capture a...

I am trying to return only one of the responses of the four. It doesn't really matter, I think I may have figured it out though. I read something last night, and the lightbulb glowed that getline...

If I awk it I will have $1 entered four times. What I am looking for is a way for within an awk script to have it return only one instance of $1. I was thinking a getline and then an if statement...

Sorry, I am taking the input and extracting $1, $2, $3, and $5. Using this information to create an output file that will add user data for generation into a mysql database.
I have been tasked to...

I have an inputfile that I trying to awk with a getline(Solaris v8 ksh). However I need to have the results be a unique. Is there a comparable command within awk to return a unique result? Or can...

Thanks for the idea! I appriciate it a lot!

I don't think that sort will work. I need to take the list in 'flatfile' and delete the entire row of instances (some multiple) in the input.lst. diff, comm, etc. won't work (as far as I know)...

I am trying to del duplicate lines from a flat file, using a sed delete, and it's not working. Is it possible to execute a sed by passing a variable or am I beating my head to hard?

code:
for...

hmm similar like something I am working on myself. I need to judge the varying length of a string and create independent results. I don't think substr will work for me though, but sounds like it...

What kind of data structure do you require?
You can make it comma delimited by executing:

sed 's/ /,/g' inputfile.list > outputfile.lst
this will convert all whitespaces of inputfile.lst to a...