1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi everyone, Can anyone guide me on how to search through a huge file and look on specific column and if it finds a discrepancy on that column that does not conform to the specified criteria, ie (1) Numeric and (3) alpha chars F123 or G333..etc, etc! then idientify it and redirect... (3 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

before i get to it, i would like to say this is the greatest unix site ive ever seen, and im glad to see so many people are out there to help. thanks well, im trying to make myself a script where i can specify a directory and a file size so that my script will show me any files larger than the... (5 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi experts problem: i have a directory "DATA" with lots of subdirectories named as date with hudge data containning files. Directory = "DATA" subdirectory = "20090611" & "20090612" ...... 20090611 = thousands of files i wanna apply find command to find all files in... (3 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I am tring to insert a newline with "/" in a text file whenever there is the text "end;" right now I have inside file: . . end; I want to have: . . end; / I tried doing the following within the file :g/^end;/s//end; \/ / (4 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am trying to develop a script which should find a word if a particular word exists. Below is the content of the file. insert_job: test_job ----> job name days_of_week: all start_times: "16:00" date_conditions: 1 insert_job: test_job2 ----> job name days_of_week: all... (16 Replies)

6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

hi, I want to store from 102 character to 128 character to a variable of header record which can be identified as 'HDR' which is the first 3 characters in the same line of a same.txt file. Please advise. Thanks (4 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, Thanks in advance File is generated with following format 31000000.xml to 48999999.xml 74000000.xml to 88999999.xml Above range should be find and moved into the folder named abc and below is another range should should be find and moved into folder named xyz ... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I am trying to find 4 latest files inside one folder having following File Name pattern and store them into 4 different variables and then use for processing in my shell script. File name is fixed length. 1) Each file starts with = ABCJmdmfbsjop letters + 7 Digit Number... (6 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have unix file like below >newuser newuser <hello hello newone I want to find the unique values in the file(excluding <,>),so that the out put should be >newuser <hello newone can any body tell me what is command to get this new file. (7 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Text in input file is like this <title> <band height="21" isSplitAllowed="true" > <staticText> <reportElement x="1" y="1" width="313" height="20" key="staticText-1"/> <box></box> <textElement> <font fontName="Arial" pdfFontName="Helvetica-Bold"... (4 Replies)