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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Can't figure out how to find specific characters in specific columns Post 302733965 by Drenhead on Wednesday 21st of November 2012 10:35:17 AM
Old 11-21-2012
Thanks everyone. The original answer actually worked for my purposes. Now, is there any way to remove those lines from the file and put them in another file?

I was able to put them in another file, but i can't get them to be removed from the original.

Thanks again.
 

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putnext

putnext(9F)						   Kernel Functions for Drivers 					       putnext(9F)

NAME

       putnext - send a message to the next queue

SYNOPSIS

       #include <sys/stream.h>
       #include <sys/ddi.h>

       void putnext(queue_t *q, mblk_t *mp);

INTERFACE LEVEL

       Architecture independent level 1 (DDI/DKI).

PARAMETERS

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       mp	Message to be passed.

DESCRIPTION

       putnext() is used to pass a message to the  put(9E) routine of the next queue in the stream.

RETURN VALUES

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CONTEXT

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EXAMPLES

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SEE ALSO

       put(9E), allocb(9F), put(9F), qprocson(9F)

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NOTES

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