1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a ascii file with lines like this: 240|^M\ ^M\^M\ Old Port Marketing order recd $62,664.- to ship 6/22/99^M\ when this record gets loaded into my database, the \ is stored literally and so the user sees carriage return \ (hex 0D 5C) when what i need is carriage return line feed (hex 0D... (1 Reply)

2. Solaris

I just installed solaris 9 on a sunblade 150(sparc), and have it partitioned. I've been using ufsrestore to restore bring the config from my old system, to the sunblade. I'm not having any luck. The root directory restore seems to work. When I try to restore /usr, I get an "/usr/sbin/fsck not... (4 Replies)

3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I have read through all documents in FAQ and have run into an issue with sending an email with body message text and an email attachment. I have included what I have thus far and I can get the message body to send in the email to work only. I cannot understand the uuencode even after I read the... (5 Replies)

4. Virtualization and Cloud Computing

Many readers have read the hype, experienced the Orwellian marketspeak, watched the positioning debates, and seen poorly managed software companies play the game of analyst-chasing (similar to ambulance chasing when you think about it). Finally, the up-to-date definitions, and hopefully a bit of... (0 Replies)

5. Solaris

hi all, ive downloaded ,built and installed coreutils from sunfreeware.com,in my quest to get the color display when ls is used(linux style)... After the pkg is installed,how do i use ls to get the color? I know its installed because i get a host of cmds that have been updated,l like this, ... (1 Reply)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I'm using this in AIX to find what file contains the value 'batch' in it, in all directories. find / -type f -exec grep -l batch {} /dev/null \; My question is, what if I only wanted to search *.sh files, and I wanted to pipe the results to a file called 'batch_find.txt'. How could I code... (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear all, I have a large database of names which I have sorted on reverse with a Perl Script. A sample is provided below agarsingh aghansingh akalsingh akamsingh akbareesingh akhamisingh akramysingh akuvsingh anchalusingh andaroosingh angadsingh anjawsingh angibai angobai angurbai... (11 Replies)