1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi, what i want to do is to convert all the txt file under my directory to the properties file using the native2ascii command. however, when i run my script, i got bad substitution error. what's wrong with my script ? pls help. thanks #!/bin/sh curDIR=`pwd` oldExt='txt'... (10 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi guys, First I have to say that I'm not Unix expert, I just have medium level experince in Unix scripting and some knowledge with a little of hands on experience of unix administration (Solaris only). I have my plans to move ahead in that field but this is a different story. I have a client... (0 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a set of files of multi-line records with the records separated by a blank line. I needed to add a record number to the front of each line followed by a colon and did the following: awk 'BEGIN {FS = "\n"; RS = ""}{for (i=1; i<=NF; i++)print NR,":",$i}' ~/Desktop/data98-1-25.txt >... (3 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have this situation in my script (simplified): A=C C=10 I need to get number 10 using just A variable. I tried with : echo $`echo $A` - but i get $C string (i need number) Thanks very much for any help! (1 Reply)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have an requirement where i need to remove few bad records(bad records I mean email id's are part of the 1st field, where a numeric value expected) from the text file delimited by ",". file1.txt --------- 1234,,DAVID,MAX abc@email.com,,JOHN,SMITH 234,,ROBERT,SEN I need to remove... (3 Replies)

6. Programming

Hey community, I'm coding an application in ANSI-C that needs to locate IP-Adresses. I fount that a good and very cheap way to do this would be to make DNS-queries against Blacklist provider UCEPROTECT's Country zone (country.uceprotect.net) They seem to offer a TXT-Record and also an A... (0 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to redirect record to two files using nawk if-else. #Identify good and bad records and redirect records using if-then-else nawk -F"|" '{if(NF!=14){printf("%s\n",$0) >> "$fn"_bad_data}else{printf("%s\n",$0) >> $fn}}' "$fn".orig "$fn".orig is the source file name bad... (7 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

HI I have a problem in a file .The file was generated with the wrong data in it. MAL 005158UK473BBTICK1120722 A9999999ADASCD 1120722ADD_SECURIADD_SECURI MAL 005158UK473BBU 1120722 A9999999FF000EA0B9C 1120722ADD_SECURIADD_SECURI MAL 005158UK473ISN 1120722 A9999999US005158UK43... (5 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi my requirement is that i want pull the bad records from input file and move those records in to a seperate file. that file has to be sent via email.. any suggentions please (1 Reply)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I've created a pretty straightforward shell script to do backups via rsync. Every night it rsyncs a copy of a website (approx 60GB) to the local machine. Once a week, after the rsync step, it zips the local copy of the whole site into 2GB chunks and places them in another folder. When running... (3 Replies)