1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hello Unix Gurus, We are doing large system upgrade. We expect upgrade to last 180-200 hours. The servers are located remotely. I am looking for solution which allows me to reconnect to the same session active on unix server where I launched the process. This would protect from local client... (0 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a file with a single line in it as below. field1 field2 field3 Different fields separated by spaces. I need the output as below. field1 field2 field3 Any sed/awk solution you can suggest? (6 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

$db2 connection ...........Q a=`$db2 -x "select A from tablename where z in (select z from tablename Q where condition fetch first 1 rows only ) with ur"` b=`$db2 -x "select B from tablename where z in (select z from tablename Q where condition fetch first 1 rows only) with ur"` $db2... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I wish to give line number from one point to another in sed command like this sed -n 1,1000000p file1.txt >file2.txt but variable line number $x,$x+100000 can i give it cos i tried and it was giving an error any suggestions?/ Thx in advance AC (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi i have one file where i want to substitute only first instance of swap with swap1 i want to replcae only first instance of swap in my script i know we can do this with awk. but i need to do this with sed only i tried follwoing code sed 's/swap/swap1' filename but here all... (15 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All, I am using LATEX and need to delete all the lines in a file matching: \begin{work} I know there are several ways to do this, but I am trying to do it with the substitute command in VI. The problem is I can't get substitute to recognize the character '\'! How do I do it? ... (7 Replies)

7. AIX

Hi, I have to insert a line having variables using sed. But the variables are not getting substituted within sed. Ex: n=2 sed $n' i\ hi' file This works. But the below code does not work. n=2 line=hello sed $n' i\ $line' file The above code inserts '$line' in the 2nd line of the... (9 Replies)

8. Homework & Coursework Questions

1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data: I have been asked to create a bash script to delete comments from another file but in the file they have an echo command with this inside of it /* this is an echo */\ so obviously they want to keep this one in the file. I have found... (5 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

if i want to display the contents of a file between say line number 3 and 10 then i use the following command sed -n '3,10p' filename if this 3 was contained in x and 10 was contained in y then how wud this command modified? sed -n '$x,$yp' filename does not work..please advise (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Everyone, I need some help with sed and I'm totally new to it. I have a template file with variables in it. These variables start with a '$' sign and are exactly one character long (plus the '$' sign). For example: $a, $b, etc. Each variable should be replaced with the contents of a... (9 Replies)