Thanks Jim. I was thinking it might be as difficult as you say. When I've posted the complete situation over the past few days, I get responses that suggest I should not want to know this or do this. As an enthusiast I like to explore and learn, so thought I would try to ask a much more direct technical question to avoid being scolded. :-)
Attached are several of my posts from a more thorough thread I started last week that might answer any questions you have. Sorry it is so long.
I've had these similar data errors on a MacBook 2006 10.6.8, a MacBook 2010 10.8.x, and a two week old MacBook Pro 10.10.5. The older ones have been cleaned up with install of OS. Because of our hack history here I was trying to learn more about this.
The purpose of those comands are to find the newest file in a directory acvrdind to system date, and it has to be recursively found in each directory.
The problem is that i want to list in a long format every found file, but the commands i use produce unexpected results ,so the output lists in a... (5 Replies)
Hi ,
I have a typical situation. I have 4 files and with different headers (number of headers is varible ).
I need to make such a merged file which will have headers combined from all files (comman coluns should appear once only).
For example -
File 1
H1|H2|H3|H4
11|12|13|14
21|22|23|23... (1 Reply)
I have to find the specific formatted file is present in the received list in the directory, for which I have written:
file_list=`ls -lrt /tmp/vinay/act/files |grep "$cdate"| awk '{print $9}'`
while read fileStr
do
find $file_list $fileStr > /dev/null
status=`echo $?`
if ; then
... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
We are copying all the files into ARCHIVE directory after we process them. We are doing this process from last 2 years, now we have a lot of files in ARCHIVE directory.
Now I need to find when the first file is copied into this directory?
If I Issue,
ls -l /ARCHIVE/*.* | tail -1... (3 Replies)
I have an issue with a korn shell script that I am writing. The script parses through a configuration file which lists a heap of path/directories for some files which need to be FTP'd. Now the script needs to check whether there are any files which have not been processed and are X minutes old.
... (2 Replies)
Hi ,
I have a .txt file in which I have multiple headers, the header record starts with $ symbol...like the first column name is $Account.
I have to keep the header in the first line and delete all the remaining headers which are in the file.
I tried using sort adc.txt | uniq -u , but my... (7 Replies)
Hi I need to merge 4 files. The issue i am facing is all the files have headers and i do not want them in the final output file. Can anybody suggest how to do it? (5 Replies)
Hi All,
In the file names we have dates.
Based on the file format given by the user,
if any file is not existed for a particular date with in a given interval we should consider that file is missing.
I have the below files in the directory /bin/daily/voda_files.
... (9 Replies)