1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Forgive the daft requests - I'm still a learner :D I need a script so that I can test another script (I'm confused already) The script I am looking for should generate a new file in the same directory (called newfile1 or what ever) and also generate text within the new file (Hello world? What... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to find for the pattern in first 5 bytes of every line in a text file and then generate a new file with the pattern found. Example: expected pattern is '-' to be serached in first 5 bytes of file only. Input File ab-cd jan-09 ddddd jan09 cc-ww jan09 dsgdq jan-09 ... (2 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, Our requirement is we have to create file from one file where all the rows from source file is converted into columns of the target file. For example Source file is : Status Report ABC Generated: 2009-05-05 08:49:47 Job start time=2009-05-05 08:43:43 Job end time=2009-05-05... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello Gurus, We are facing some performance issue in UNIX. If someone had faced such kind of issue in past please provide your suggestions on this . Problem Definition: /Few of load processes of our Finance Application are facing issue in UNIX when they uses a shell script having below... (19 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hy there! Some time ago I encrypted the harddrive of my notebook. Now, I can't remember it correctly. I want to create a list with all possible combinations of the words I used (I still remember all the words....). The password was created like this: ... (1 Reply)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

HI, I want to append some configuration statements to the existing file in unix to it's 3 line , 7th line and 28 line. There is a file generated by our system job, to this I need to add some lines as mentioned below. DIR=/usr/CDR - line 3 Source=/usr/src - line 7 Target=/usr/tgt - line... (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Frndz, I have req in which i need to run the query stored in some file and then store the resultset of the query in some other file. PFB the code i have written: #----Start job log--- SQLLOG='/opt/app/vertica2/cdr_dev/logs/conn_orac_db.log' ORA_USER='abc' ORA_PASSWD='xyz' ... (7 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Guys, I have a simple request. I have a file in w3c format. Each file has 2 header lines. Rest of the lines are 16 columns each. They are separated by Tab. I need to discard the first 2 lines and then write each column of the txt file into a seperate column of CSV. I tried the command below... (1 Reply)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys, I am pulling my hair out here. I have a file that comes in, once it finishes i want to move it to a new location. This sounds all very easy but my solution is failing and moves the file before it has finished generating. isrun=`ps -ef | grep -i filename | grep -v grep | wc -l` ... (8 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

i have a unix script which generates the csv file. the data in csv file is dynamic. how can i convert/move the data from csv file to xml. please suggest (1 Reply)