I am looking for a way to subtract two files and get a number
The first file contains only lines
The second file contain one number, the number of the line
Example
So the idea is to substract the number of the line in the first file with the number inside the second file :
I have found this post, and the reply from "cfajohnson" works fine, but I am not sure it's the best way on KSH.
I need to figure out the numeric representation of the previous month (in an automated monthly-running script) so that I may append it to a filename. I have tried statements such as variable=`date +%m -1` (and several variations) but with no success. I have also tried simply assigning the value... (3 Replies)
hi gurus!
i realize that my question shows my stupidness, but i need your help!
i have:
s_date=`date +%m-%d-%Y_%I%p`
variable and i need the same, but minus one hour..
what i made:
s_date=time(`date +%m-%d-%Y_%I%p`) - 3600
but i'm getting:
daily_exports.sh: line 20: syntax error near... (4 Replies)
hi,
i set up a script on my server to do a particular task once files from an external system are ftpd in the format compaq_20100110 (YYDDMM). Interestingly, the source of ftp is sending the files in the format e.g 20100109 i.e. previous date and for some reason this fails.kindly see my script... (2 Replies)
Hallo all i am trying to execute this script ...............
But this is throwing the error......
use of uninitialized value in subtraction in at icd_convert.pl line 156
use of uninitialized value in subtraction in at icd_convert.pl line 157
use of uninitialized value in subtraction in at... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
Thanks in advance
I want to do simple calculations..using files
for example:
i have 2 files called anish.txt and kumar.txt
anish.txt contains value 10 and kumar.txt contains value 5
anish.txt - kumar.txt = 5
i want to display like this
how to do this process... (17 Replies)
Hi
#!/bin/sh
month=`date +%m`
year=`date +%Y`
echo $month
a=02
# Retaining Data for Current and Previous Month
lmonth=`expr $month - $a`
if test "$lmonth" = "0"
then
lmonth=12
year=`expr $year - 1`
fi
echo $year
echo $lmonth
The output is (3 Replies)
Hello all .
I have two arrays.
${ARRAY_MOUNT_POINT_CAPACITY}
${ARRAY_MOUNT_POINT_CAPACITY}.
Whats the synatx of subtracting their values , placing them in variable V1 and then echoeing it ???
Ive tried expr and let ...gives me ./test_code.sh: difference: bad number (3 Replies)
I have dates as follows in a file
20121029135649
20121029135721
20121030091540
20121030093420
20121030094340
20121030095427
20121030095856
20121030100104
20121030100251
All these dates are in sorted order. I need to find out the difference between the dates as follows
2nd row... (6 Replies)
Hello All,
I am a newbie to unix shell scripting and need to write a script that displays the difference between two variables that stores date value.
For example,
F1=`ls -ltr file1* | tail -1 |tr -s ' ' |cut -d' ' -f6,7,8`
F2=`ls -ltr file2* | tail -1 |tr -s ' ' |cut -d' ' -f6,7,8`
F1... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: priyaa2010
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
suspend
suspend(1) User Commands suspend(1)NAME
suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell
SYNOPSIS
sh
suspend
csh
suspend
ksh
suspend
DESCRIPTION
sh
Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).
csh
Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su.
ksh
Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).
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See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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