1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

hi! I am a newbee. I would really appreciate if you can answer the following question: I have a huge data file, 214MB with several coloumns. I need to delete the very last line of the file. Everything I know takes a lot of time to do it ( because I have to open the file in an editor or run a... (3 Replies)

2. Solaris

im running crontab -e as root, I keep getting, I set my editor to EDITOR=vi... # crontab -e 477 (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a file of 100000 records. This file is created by concatenation of two files. I want to edit this file from record number 80,000 till the end and add "|N" for each record . How can I acheive this. Please suggest (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi experts, please help me in writting the script.. i have two files file1 and file 2 i have to write a script which will take input parameters as file1 and file2 file1: ...... 1 2 3 4 file2: ..... 1 2 output (6 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I want to set up a file with crontab to run the cron deamon so I can use at to schedule jobs. I think the crontab file (or whatever you call it) has to be set up. Currently, I don't have a crontab file (I checked by typing sudo crontab -u myusername -l), and I don't know the syntax for creating... (6 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am working on Solaris machine. I have to add a cron for some operation, nut in SSH terminal crontab -l shows all related crons, but crontab -e instead of opening vi editor shows some number. Could any body tell what can be issue? (16 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am having a file which is fix length and comma seperated. And I want to replace values for one column. I am reading file line by line in variable $LINE and then replacing the string. Problem is after changing value and writing new file temp5.txt, formating of original file is getting... (8 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a text file that has data like: Data "12345#22" Fred ID 12345 Age 45 Wilma Dino Data "123#22" Tarzan ID 123 Age 33 Jane I need to figure out a way of adding 1,000,000 to the specific lines (always same format) in the file, so it becomes: Data "1012345#22" Fred ID... (16 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all, I'm new hear and a noob regarding file editing and awk, but I have a file that has one column and i want to add a new column, as the first column and it have the same data in the column. ex: file1 - 123456 654321 098765 567890 here is what i want my file to look like (tab... (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear Guru's I'm using Putty and want to edit a file. I know we generally use vi editor to do it. As I'm not good in using vi editor, I want to convert the vi into something like text pad. Is there any option in Putty to do the same ? Thanks for your response. Srini (6 Replies)