1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, I have a crontab that runs some shell scripts at fixed intervals. Although, one condition for a script to continue is that a previous instance of the same script should have terminated. But, inspite of the fact that the old instance has finished execution, the new instance still terminates. ... (3 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All Please see the script below for file in ${filelist }; do if ]; then if ]; then print " $(date) STEP 6 ------- Copying $file to $destpath" fi if ! cp $ftppath/$file $destpath 2> /dev/null; then writeToLog "ERROR: ${0##*/} - $upartition Could not copy file $file" if ]; then... (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I wanted to compare EDI files present in Two different Directories which can be related by the file names. While comparing the EDI files i have to skip selected segments such as "ISA" "IEA" and "GS" "GE" since this may have datetime stamp and different "Sender" "Receiver" Qual. and... (3 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a directory that contains some specific files. I want to find all the files and copy them to a different directory, however the files are in /dir1/dir2/dir3/filedir/archive. In ~/filedir contains about 100 directories that contains an archive directory where the files I need are. How can I... (6 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

find . -type f -name "*.sql" -print|xargs perl -i -pe 's/pattern/replaced/g' this is simple logic to find and replace in multiple files & folders Hope this helps. Thanks Zaheer (0 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hiiii Friends I have 2 files with huge data. I want to compare this 2 files & if they hav same set of vales in specific rows & columns i need to get that value from one file & replace it in other. For example: I have few set data of both files here: a.dat: PDE-W 2009 12 16 5 29 11.11 ... (10 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have 2 files with the same header and need to append them and put the result in a 3rd file the 2 files has the same header and while appending i want to skip the second file header and need the result to be put in a third file Normally, this would work Cat file1 file2 >> file3....But how... (5 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, suppose I have the following file and certain rows have missing columns, how do i skip these rows and create an output file which has all the columns in it E/N Ko_exp %err Ko_calc %err diff diff- diff+ 0.95 ======== ======= ==== ======= ==== ===== ===== =====... (12 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

How do I move all folders and its contents from a directory A to another directory B, skipping all files in Directory A ? ---------- Post updated at 12:53 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:42 PM ---------- Ok. Got it. mv /A/*/ /B/ (1 Reply)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I want a simple line of code that will compress files within a directory specified (parameter) and its subdirectories and also i want to remove files which are exactly 365 days old from the sysdate after this compression. Please help. Thanks, JD (8 Replies)