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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Non trivial file splitting, saving with variable filename Post 302821815 by samask on Saturday 15th of June 2013 02:55:55 PM
Old 06-15-2013
Thank you, it works perfectly.

I can see it uses a different approach. Now I can learn more. Smilie

Such brevity, but at the same time expressivity, that is why I feel AWK is so elegant.

Thank you so much, once again.

Last edited by samask; 06-15-2013 at 04:17 PM.. Reason: Edit mispell
 

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

NAME
tzselect - select a time zone SYNOPSIS
tzselect DESCRIPTION
The tzselect program asks the user for information about the current location, and outputs the resulting time zone description to standard output. The output is suitable as a value for the TZ environment variable. All interaction with the user is done via standard input and standard error. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
AWK Name of a Posix-compliant awk program (default: awk). TZDIR Name of the directory containing time zone data files (default: /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo). FILES
TZDIR/iso3166.tab Table of ISO 3166 2-letter country codes and country names. TZDIR/zone.tab Table of country codes, latitude and longitude, TZ values, and descriptive comments. TZDIR/TZ Time zone data file for time zone TZ. EXIT STATUS
The exit status is zero if a time zone was successfully obtained from the user, nonzero otherwise. SEE ALSO
newctime(3), tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8) TZSELECT(8)
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