1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm reading 2 input files but not getting expected value. I should get an alpha value on file_1_data but not getting any. Please help. >cat test6.sh awk ' FILENAME==ARGV { file_1_data=$0; print "----- 1 Line " NR " -----" $1; next } FILENAME==ARGV { file_2_data=$0; print "----- 2... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

After pouring over my LTKS and Unix in a nutshell, I'm stuck! I have a large (BMC Report File) that has breaks on DM (district managers). After a report header, there is a DM header like: DM: DBP AARON ROBERTS At the end of each DM break, there is: ** END OF REPORT ** ... (6 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I am very new to awk script writing. I have two files(file1 and file2) containing some numbers. I want divide the numbers in file1 with those in file 2 line wise. is it possible to simultaneousely read the information from both files and carry put the division. Thanks a lot in... (6 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi Friends, Please help me to give a try for writing a shell script either with awk or SED for the below requirement. i have file with 3 lines, each of size 3200 chars, wanted to read this file and divide eachline with 200 columns with differensizes for each column value by keeping seperator.... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have awk script that is reading data from file and printing the result on the monitor....I need to read more than one file .....one by one... and store the result in output file... ---------- Post updated at 06:41 AM ---------- Previous update was at 06:39 AM ---------- please i need... (4 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi , I have a awk script to read a file using getline, but when its not able to recognize the path of the file. I am working on solaris unix. nawk -F'|' ' BEGIN{ FILE1="/input_files/temp.txt" } I have to place my script in the same folder i.e /input_files/ for my script to work. ... (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I'm trying to write an awk program that reads two files inputs. example, file 1: 0.00017835 0.000176738 0.00018811 0.000189504 0.000188155 0.000180065 0.000178991 0.000178252 0.000182513 file 2: 1.7871769E-05 1.5139576E-16 1.5140196E-16 1.5139874E-16 1.7827407E-04 ... (5 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All, Request your expertise in tackling one requirement in my project,(i dont have much expertise in Shell Scripting). The requirement is as below, 1) We store the last run date of a process in a file. When the batch run the next time, it should read this file, get the last run date from... (1 Reply)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear Shell scripters, I have a small code which copy the txt files from some destination to file name OutPutFile. I want to modify this script to introduce several constant. The string it is reading is like ... (2 Replies)

10. Open Source

I have a process that requires me to read data from huge log files and find the most recent entry on a per-user basis. The number of users may fluctuate wildly month to month, so I can't code for it with names or a set number of variables to capture the data, and the files are large so I don't... (7 Replies)