1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I'm having some trouble reading a file that was 'cat' through a while loop. Can anyone suggest alternatives? what i do is cat filename|grep *.stuff while read line do echo $line ... and other commands done The cat,grep line seems to work correctly, but the script hangs when i add in... (3 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am writing a script that is running a loop on one file to obtain records from another file. Using egrep, I am finding matching records in file b, then outputing feilds of both into another file. **************************** filea=this.txt fileb=that.txt cat $filea | while read line do... (1 Reply)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Can anybody tell the difference between Difference between cat , cat > , cat >> and touch command in UNIX? Thanks (6 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

STEP 1 # Set variable FILE=/tmp/mainfile SEARCHFILE =/tmp/searchfile # THIS IS THE MAIN FILE. cat /tmp/mainfile Interface Ethernet0/0 "outside", is up, line protocol is up Hardware is i82546GB rev03, BW 100 Mbps Full-Duplex(Full-duplex), 100 Mbps(100 Mbps) MAC address... (6 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, version :- SunOS rdrsu1 5.10 Generic_142900-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise I have a requirenemet, where I have to extrace eroror start with ORA-, which match a perticular date. In below text I only extract out error coming on wed-8 and start with text like "ORA-". hope you... (4 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I need to create loop script to read full line and append a variable to each line. cat file I need the output like below 10.0.0.1,136 1 24 048800 id N4 No_Light 10.0.0.1,137 1 25 048900 id N4 No_Light 10.0.0.1,140 1 28 048c00 id N4 No_Light 10.0.0.1,262 1 38 048e80... (13 Replies)

7. AIX

hi Guys, Am new to this awesome forum, and yea i need some help here asap thnx :) i have a directory with over 34000 text files, i need a script that will delete the last line of each of this file without me necessary opening the files. illustration:- file1 200 records file2 130 records... (5 Replies)

8. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Here's my script echo "1" >>hello.txt echo "2" >>hello.txt echo "3" >>hello.txt mailx -s "Check Status" #myteam@mycomp.com<hello.txt In Outlook I see EMail body as when I want it to be can you please suggest ? (29 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, :) I've an issue with the creation of a directory, All work without it :mad: So, below, my scripts with the debug output : #!/bin/bash # PATHS HOME_BACKUP="/home/backup" HOME_SCRIPT="/home/scripts/test/backup_server" TARGET="/var/www" # DATE DATE_Ymd=$(date +%Y-%m-%d) #... (1 Reply)