1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi everyone, Can anyone guide me on how to search through a huge file and look on specific column and if it finds a discrepancy on that column that does not conform to the specified criteria, ie (1) Numeric and (3) alpha chars F123 or G333..etc, etc! then idientify it and redirect... (3 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am n00b to shell scripting and I am learning Ksh, sed and awk. I have a requirement and need your help. 1) How to read a specific section of a file. I have a file and I want to read the contents between say "Page Number:1" to "End of Page 1" 2) Within the section of the file that was... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Alright, I'm new to Perl so be gentle. Given the following script: ---- open(file, "<file.txt"); @lines = <file>; close(file); $var = print $lines; ---- So I'm printing line 18 of the file "file.txt". I now want the 5th column, minus the forward slash. The line looks like this: ... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Friends, I have a file with the following values.. xyz.txt,12345.xml abc.txt,04567.xml cde.txt,12134.xml I would like to extract all the 2nd column values twice as shown in the example like 12345,12345.xml 04567,04567.xml 12134,12134.xml Please advice!! In the formus one of... (7 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a list of Servers in no particular order as follows: virtualMachines="IIBSBS IIBVICDMS01 IIBVICMA01"And I am generating some output from a pre-existing script that gives me the following (this is a sample output selection). 9/17/2010 8:00:05 PM: Normal backup using VDRBACKUPS... (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys...Wow I just composed a huge post and it got erased as I was logged out automatically Anyways I hope someone can help me out here. So the task I'm working on is like this I have a bunch of files that I care about sitting in a directory say $HOME/files Now my job is to go and loop... (6 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

i have a log file that has the date and time that looks like this: Wed Jun 28 15:46:21 2012 test failed tailed passed passed not error panic what we want to focus on is the first 5 columns because they contain the date and time. the date and time can be anywhere on the line. in this... (6 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I have to a add 2 lines to /etc/sudoers file under this section below, can someone please suggest script to add these two lines when execute this remotely on to a multiple servers. before ## Allow root to run any commands anywhere root ALL=(ALL) ALL After ## Allow root... (2 Replies)

9. AIX

Hi all, Recently I facing problem with my AIX server. we experience slowness on performance. there are some application installed in this server such as : Oracle 10g database, control-m client agent, and some monitoring tools. when we're facing the problem we're noticing that vmstat value a... (7 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear all, I have a specific problem that i cannot solve and I hope someone here can help me. :) I have two text files with one column of values. Example: File1: 67 94 95 . . File2 0.1 0.003 0.5 . . (3 Replies)