1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I've noticed most of my postings here are because of syntax errors. So I want to begin compiling a large txt file that contains all the "man <cmd>" of the commands I most have problems with. I ran a "man nawk >> nawk.txt" but it included a header/footer on each "page". Anyone know how I'd be... (6 Replies)

2. HP-UX

I was wondering if it was possible to tell awk to print the output of a command in the print. .... | awk '{print $0}' I would like it to print the date right before $0, so something like (this doesn't work though) .... | awk '{print date $0}' (4 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Combining many lines to one using awk or any unix cmd Inputfile: Output : Appreciate help on this. (14 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi everybody, I am working on a bigger awk script in which one part is comparing the size of two files. I want to evaluate which file is bigger and then just save the bigger one. I got it all working except for the part where I want to figure out which file is bigger; the one awk is currently... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am using SunOS I want to serch my previous command from unix prompt (like on AIX we can search by ESC -k) how to get in SunOs urgent help require. (10 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, There's a third-party application's command that shows the application's status like "tail -f verybusy.log". When use the command, the output comes every 1-sec. but when it goes in a script below the output comes every 8-sec...What is the problem and how can I fix it? open(CMD,... (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

when i try the snippet in the console its working fine: ps awwwux | grep php-fpm | grep -v grep | grep -v master | awk '{total_mem = $6 * 1024 + total_mem; total_proc++} END{printf("%d\n", total_mem / total_proc)}' output: but when i try the bash script: #!/bin/sh # -*- sh -*- #... (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I was searching for a way to grep 2 lines before and after a certain keyword, and I came across the following code.. awk "\$0 ~ /ORA-/ { cmd=\"awk 'NR>=\" NR-2 \" && NR<=\" NR+2 \"' init.ora\" system(cmd) }" input_file I could not understand how this works. What is system() ? what... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, i have following cmd to get a “n/a” value from one particular column, but if i need to take one column n/a value with based on other column this cmd will help? ex: col1 col2 col3 234 RR Yes n/a RR1 No 236 RR2 No 237 RR3 Yes 238 RR4 No n/a ... (1 Reply)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Is there possible to do vlookup in Mysql one table from another table based on one column values and placed the data in same table? if it is possible in mysql itself pls share links for reference. Here is the ex: i need to vlookup the cus.id in table to and place the cus.name in 4th... (3 Replies)