1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have 24 .dat files something like below. The file name starts with “abc” followed by two digit month and two digit year. Is there a way to grab the month and year from each filename and append it to the end of each line. Once this is done I want to combine all the files into file... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I'm reading data from comma separated files to DB. Now there is a need to have the name of the input file in each row of that file. How can I do this in unix script? Example: $cat file1 value11,value12, value,13 value21,value22, value,23 value31,value32, value,33 And the result... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, This is my first post here - I'm hoping I can get some help! I have searched these forums and othersand not getting anything that works. I am trying to extract a single file from a tar archive to a diffierent location than it will default to. For example my tar log shows me ... a... (3 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I have a file path such as: /path/to/whatever/30 and I want to get the number off the end. My problem is that there might be other numbers in the path and the last number can be 1 or 2 digits. I tried something like: sed 's/.*\(\/\{1,2\}\).*/\1/' which seems to work fine for single digit... (7 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am trying to create files with special characters in its filenames for testing purposes. This is on a Linux RHEL4 but this should also be applicable on a Unix shell. I am able to create files with special characters in the filenames...e.g. cp -pv foo.gif \*special.gif cp -pv foo.gif \... (6 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I'm trying to make a script that copy a file that has a backslash in the filename. What I'm doing wrong? The flename is: 1300212744.H786972P30819.ns1.cybernet.com.br,S\=6313:2, My script ParteA="1300212970.H27173P31627.ns1.cybernet.com.br,S" ParteB=\\ ParteC="=" ParteZ=":2,"... (15 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have a cron job setup that searches for 'core dump' files in a fixed set of directories and moves the core files to a separate file system. I am able to add date and time info to the file name. How can I add the source directory path to the file name? In case anyone is wondering why I... (5 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, i have some files which looks like given below: -rwxrwxrwx 1 amsbatch ams 1608 Oct 22 2009 AMS_BATCH_COMPILE* -rwxr----- 1 amsbatch ams 1608 Oct 22 2009 AMS_BATCH_COMPILE_original* -rwxrwxrwx 1 amsbatch ams 1127 Dec 1 2005 AMS_LMU.sh* drwxr-xr-x 2... (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, How I can paste contain big file1 to end another file2, e.g., $cat file1 aaaaa bbbbb ccccc$cat file2 11111 22222 3333 4444 55555 66666 7777 8888then want like paste contain file1 to end file2 > file3 $cat file3 aaaaa bbbbb ccccc 11111 22222 3333 4444 55555 66666... (4 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hello, i want to create a sha256 hash for a file and copy the source file under new filename as : sha256hash_sourcefilename Input : sha256sum FILE Example : sha156sum mounttest.123 Output HASH_FILE How to do this ? e.g.: ... (1 Reply)