1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am very new to scripting in UNIX and in need of help. I am creating a program that will check a file that has a target time in the form of HH:MM:SS before another program can begin executing. The file with the target time will only have that target time in it and nothing else. Is there any way... (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am very new to scripting in UNIX and in need of help. I am creating a program that will check a file that has a target time in the form of HH:MM:SS before another program can begin executing. The file with the target time will only have that target time in it and nothing else. Is there any... (4 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a UNIX script which has two parts: 1. It connects to a database and refreshes a materialized view 2. It then connects to another database and inserts refresh statistics to a table The script works, but I'm not too good at UNIX validation. Currently, if the first part of the job... (1 Reply)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

is there any way to check null data against some of the column in file My file have such structure 1,,4,SUMISHO ,SMG110880 ,1,12,SUMISHO CAPITAL MANAGEMENT (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD ,ACCT01,20080531,2008,5,30,20080630,1,1,TXGRP ,CGST ,1,74,5.18,74,0,5.18... (2 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All, I got a file with 3 fields delimited by hyphen "-". I have to validate & cleanse the data before i begine the processing Requirements 1. No record should contain more than 2 delimiters 2. No record should even contain less than 2 delimiters 3. Any records that matches rule 1 &... (1 Reply)

6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi All, I got a file with 3 fields delimited by hyphen "-". I have to validate & cleanse the data before i begine the processing Requirements 1. No record should contain more than 2 delimiters 2. No record should even contain less than 2 delimiters 3. Any records that matches rule 1 &... (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I got a file with 3 fields delimited by hyphen "-". I have to validate & cleanse the data before i begine the processing Requirements 1. No record should contain more than 2 delimiters 2. No record should even contain less than 2 delimiters 3. Any records that matches rule 1 &... (8 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a script which is take date as parameter sh abc.sh <2010-02-01> #!/sh/bin my_date=$1 #Here i want to two diffrent dates ## 3 Days before ##date14query=$mydate - 4 (it will be 2010-01-28) ##date24query=$mydate +4 (it will be 2010-01-05) #Please Help (3 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Dears, I am working on a batch that processes file with name containing date prefix eg., 20101222_file.dat. The logic is to process files in order. Eg., 20101225 must be processed only after 20101222. Ok first glance it looked simple, it use a variable to check this date value as number and... (2 Replies)