Search Results

How do I get the record count in an EBCDIC file on a Linux Box. :confused:

It works when you put double quotes instead of single quotes.
sed "line1,line2..d" filename.

I have a file which has about 500K records and I need to delete about 50 records from the file. I know line numbers and am using
sed '13456,13457,......d' filename > new file.
It does not seem to...

What is the best method to identify an remove control characters in a file. Would it be easier to do this in Unix or in C.

I am getting a 'corupt index' error when I uncompress a file that has been ftped to HP-UX server from a Solaris box. I am actually ftp about 5 files and am able to Uncompress 4 of the files however I...

I found it . There should be a space after and before the '=' in between the braces.
Damn Unix.:D ;)

There are spaces before and after the ]. I am able to echo the file name as is from the first if but it should only go to the first 'if' if it satisfies the condition in it.:mad:

I am trying to set up a variable based on the name of the file.

function script_name {

if [ $1='pms.upload.log' ]
then
job_name='MONITOR'
return job_name;

elsif [ $1='pms.download.log'...

I have a file with 1000 records and I have to produce another file with 1 line which is a concatentation of all these records.
Please help.

Does ftp from unix have an exit status. In the sense after ftp is invoked and if the ftp fails during file transfer does it exit out with a status other than 0. What is do right now is invoke ftp and...

I was wondering if users can be restricted from invoking sqlplus in unix from certain directories. In other words certain users should be able to invoke sqlplus only through certain directories

U could grep the line out and then cut it.
grep 'text' filename | cut -c 1-3 should help.
As regards vi I do not think man pages will show you how.
But it can be easily done.

Hi guys:

I have a an oracle job which uses 10 parallel hints and would like to killit when it hangs. I want to kill all the processes that have been spawned. what I do right now is get the pid of...