I'm not sure if it's a bug in the router OS or if this is true all of the time, but apparently sometimes this method works and sometimes it overwrites the original file with only the last entry. A (less than elegant) method I've found that will work is:
However I feel there must be a more elegant way to avoid temporary files using awk or sed, but I'm just not that familiar with them. Can someone help appease the OCD perfectionist in me?
Is there a command that sets a variable length?
I have a input of a variable length field but my output for that field needs to be set to 32 char.
Is there such a command?
I am on a sun box running ksh
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Apologies for the trivial nature of this question but I cannot seem to get a simple re direct to a log file to work
Step 1
touch log.txt
at -f batch.sh now >> log.txt
I am trying to get the batch.sh contents into the log file
Manny Thanks (8 Replies)
Hi, all.
I need to convert a file tab delimited/variable length file in AIX to a fixed lenght file delimited by spaces. This is the input file:
10200002<tab>US$ COM<tab>16/12/2008<tab>2,3775<tab>2,3783
19300978<tab>EURO<tab>16/12/2008<tab>3,28523<tab>3,28657
And this is the expected... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I want ssh to the remote server and then execute ls and redirect the output to the file in remote server itself
like
ssh root@$server `ls /var/log/users.txt > root@$server:/home/users.txt`
Can you please let me know the correct syntax for it.
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Suppose I have a file named a
When I write
cat a>a
The following error message is displayed
cat: a: input file is output file
and my file a is truncated to zero size.
Also the exit status of the last command is 1
Can someone tell me what actually happens when I do so? (1 Reply)
I have a system stat command running which generates data after 5 sec or so. I pass this data to awk and do some calculation to present the data differently. Once done now I want to pass this data to file as and when generated but doesn't work..unless the first command completes successfully.... (6 Replies)
So I have a existing file that I used the uniq command on and I need to save the output to the same file without changing the file name.
I have tried $ uniq filename > filename
then when I cat the file it then becomes blank like there is nothing inside.
any help would be much appreciated... (0 Replies)
Hi
I am making a script where i want to redirect the output of ls -l to a file
Example
#ls -l fil1.txt > /opt/temp/a.txt
ac: No such file or directory
I want to capture output of this command
like here output is
ac: No such file or directory
can anyone help (4 Replies)
I am struck up with a problem and that is with output redirection.
I used all the ways for the redirection of the output of c binary to a file, still it is failing.
Here are the different ways which I have used:
./a.out | tee -a /root/tmp.txt 2>&1
./a.out | tee -a /root/tmp.txt 1>&1
./a.out |... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a peculiar issue w.r.t redirecting the command output to a file when using loop.
I am redirecting command output to same file in a series of if condition statements, but if one block of if condition statement writes the log to the file , the subsequent block of if condition... (7 Replies)