1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I write a sh script that zip and copy to tape all files that older then 2 hours. 1. The way I choose is - touch a file with "now - 2 hours", then use fine with '! -newer' 2. Do you have any other idea to do it ? tnx. (1 Reply)

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Hi I have a date in a variable in Unix script and have to subtract -1 from the date. fromdate='07/13/2009' Now we want to subract one day from it i.e the end result should be '07/12/2009' Any suggestions? Thanks (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

need some help on the below requirement: File1: SV,22,20100501140000,JFK,RUH SV,29,20100501073000,BOM,RUH SV,29,20100501073000,SIN,RUH third filed is datetime which is of the format (yyyymmddhh24miss) File2 JFK,+,0500 BLR,-,0530 SIN,-,0800 for every line of file 1, take 4... (9 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear All, Please help with a script which can accomplish the following: Input table: $1 $2 $3 Student1 1 50 Student2 56 75 Student3 77 100 Desired Output: $1 $2 $3 $4 Student1 1 50 Student2 56 75 6 Student3 77 ... (4 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Folks I have tried awk command to conditionally add or subtract value from specific row in a file. The test file looks like: # cat test.txt cont x y Max 0.3 0.9 Min 0.2 0.9 diff 0.1 0 # awk '{for (i=2; i <=NF; i++) if ($i== "0") $i=$i+0.2; print}' test.txt Output: cont... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have a file with thousands of lines in the following format, where Field1=First 8 characters Field2-9-16 characters Field3=17-26 characters I need to add Field 1 and Field2 and subtract the result from Field 3. Field3=Field3 - (Field1 + Field2) 0012.00 0010.00 0001576.53... (4 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

---------- Post updated at 01:58 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:48 PM ---------- For some reason my question is not getting printed. Here are the details: Greetings. I would like to add/subtact an integer to/from two columns of integers. I feel like this should be easy using awk... (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi below is a file Date Category Time Attempts Success 2/17/2014 PayFlow ATB 0.999988 4039104 4039057 2/18/2014 PayFlow ATB 0.999912 4620964 4620558 2/19/2014 PayFlow ATB 0.999991 4380836 4380796 2/20/2014 PayFlow ATB 0.999988 5031047 5030985 2/21/2014 ... (5 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello All, I am working on script where I need to add hours,minutes or seconds in the time.Time is not the current but it could be future time.I thought I can store that time in variable and add hours.minutes or second but I am not able to add that in the time that is stores in a variable. Time... (9 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Gents, Is there the way to increase hours (+3) to the data with the format following. example JDhhmmss 335193508 input 335193508 335203508 335213508 335223508 335233508 output 335223508 335233508 336003508 336013508 (14 Replies)