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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Moving Part of a field to another field using AWK Post 302083105 by rjsha1 on Friday 4th of August 2006 05:25:02 AM
Old 08-04-2006
Hi Jean-Pierre,

That's great.. However I have another question, what if the Field seperator is a " as opposed to a , ?????
 

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NMBSTATUS(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					      NMBSTATUS(1)

NAME
nmbstatus - Lists NMB node status of a UDP network SYNOPSIS
nmbstatus [options] Options: --workgroup --pdc --bdc --lmb --dmb --members --quiet --allworkgroups --winsserver --print0 --debug --help --man GENERAL OPTIONS
--help Print a brief help message and exits.Prints a help message. --man Print the manual page and exit. --print0 Use '' instead of a tab stop as seperator between the output. --debug Use an debuglevel. No debuglevel available yet. GENERAL ARGUMENTS
--workgroup Perform all actions on this workgroup name. If no workgroup is set the information off all available groups is shown. --pdc If not called in conjunction with --quiet print a line starting with the acronym PDC followed by the seperator and the netbios name of the PDC if one is available. If not print nothing and return with 1. --bdc If not called in conjunction with --quiet print a line starting with the acronym BDC followed by the seperator and the netbios name of the BDC if one is available. If not print nothing and return with 1. --dmb If not called in conjunction with --quiet print a line starting with the acronym DMB followed by the seperator and the netbios name of the DMB if one is available. If not print nothing and return with 1. --lmb If not called in conjunction with --quiet print a line starting with the acronym LMB followed by the seperator and the netbios name of the LMB if one is available. If not print nothing and return with 1. --members If not called in conjunction with --quiet print a line starting with the word MEMBERS followed by the seperator and the netbios names of the workgroup members. If not print nothing and return with 1. --quiet Don't print any information. Just return with 0 if a type - pdc, lmb, dmb, or members was found. Else return 1. --allworkgroups List all available workgroups. --winsserver Use this WINS server to gather the information. DESCRIPTION
nmbstatus will detect workgroups, PDCs, BDCs, DMBs, LMBs, and Members of workgroups in your network. If more than one type is specizied but only one result found, nmbstatus nevertheless returns 0. AUTHOR
Lars Mueller <lmuelle@suse.de> If you find any errors in the code please let me know. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2003-2004 SuSE Linux AG. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. POD ERRORS
Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained below: Around line 339: You forgot a '=back' before '=head1' Around line 341: '=item' outside of any '=over' perl v5.12.1 2009-01-02 NMBSTATUS(1)
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