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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Replace 8th and 9th characters in file permanently Post 302570269 by GarciasMuffin on Thursday 3rd of November 2011 05:11:27 AM
Old 11-03-2011
Works perfectly.

Many thanks.

---------- Post updated 11-03-11 at 04:11 AM ---------- Previous update was 11-02-11 at 06:36 PM ----------

Morning,


I have now been asked for it in a bash script.

No perl.



Any ideas

Thanks in advance.
 

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AMOVERVIEW(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     AMOVERVIEW(8)

NAME
amoverview - display file systems processed by Amanda over time SYNOPSIS
amoverview [[ -config ] config ] [ [-hostwidth width] ] [ [-diskwidth width] ] [ -verbose ] DESCRIPTION
Amoverview displays a chart showing hosts and file systems processed by Amanda along with the backup level performed each day. See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda. OPTIONS
[-config config] Use configuration config instead of DailySet1. [-hostwidth width] Set host field column width to width characters instead of eight. [-diskwidth width] Set disk field column width to width characters instead of 20. -verbose Amoverview can take a long while on large systems. This option reports intermediate steps while it is working. EXAMPLE
This shows the /home file system on host2 was backed up at level 3 on the 8th, 9th and 10th of December, had a full backup on the 11th, a level 1 on the 12th and a level 2 on the 13th. # amoverview date 12 12 12 12 12 12 host disk 08 09 10 11 12 13 host1 / 0 1 1 1 1 1 host1 /var 0 1 1 1 1 1 host2 / 1 1 1 1 1 0 host2 /home 3 3 3 0 1 2 host2 /opt 1 1 1 1 1 1 host2 /var 1 1 0 1 1 1 SEE ALSO
amadmin(8), amanda(8) AMOVERVIEW(8)
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