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If there is the rstat service enabled then you can remotely query the uptime
rup remotehostname

Well, it's probably me, but I still do not understand what you are trying to do exactly and why you think you need to put a root password in a shell script.

If you need to get stats from a machine...

I just checked (on Linux) and who -b works for non-root users:

neo:~$ who -b
system boot 2019-01-30 00:24

You cannot run who -b from a non-root user account on AIX?

A bit cleaner
perl -le 'print time'

Show field 8 and higher
cut -d";" -f8- file

perl -e 'print time(), "\n";'

If i remember AIX 4.3.2 correctly (sorry, but is been a long time) there should be the "%T" option which displays the (24h-)time in the format "HH:MM:SS".

Check this with the man page of date i...

The routine is always the same: please post some sample of your input and a terminal session with some command executed on this data and its oucome: error messages, return codes, diagnostics and...

Wouldn't this suffice:
awk 'BEGIN {print srand()}'
1487859688?

try this to get epoch time:

nawk 'BEGIN {srand();time=srand();print time}' </dev/null

Note that since an assignment returns the value assigned and since the value being assigned is not an empty string and is not zero, the script can be written as just a condition with the default...

You can try my general purpose date script (https://www.unix.com/unix-for-beginners-questions-and-answers/239167-general-purpose-date-script.html) which is a GNU-date-alike written in Perl, which...

You are working with the same data as in your other thread, looks like.

Another way to do it is $ echo "FT71;1;1;1;;;1;31.01.2017 11:12:24;0" | awk '{ NF=6 } 1' FS=";" OFS=";" -

FT71;1;1;1;;
...

A code block followed by an expression like that, prints the line whenever the expression is true. As an expression, 1 is always true.

The code block is actually optional. Just awk '1' filename...

It's the geek version of {print}.
In fact it gives a non-zero =true value in an implicit if where the default action is {print}.

Sorry for moving around your thread, i wrongly thought it deals with the same problem as your other thread.



This is actually exactly the way cut works:

# printf "\"%s\"\n" $(echo...

The substitution needs the field to end with the semicolon delimiter.
Not true for the last field.
A simple relief is
sed '
s/$/;/
s/[^;]*;/1;/6
s/;$//
' file
awk is the better tool to work...

sed version:
sed 's/[^;]*;/1;/6' file

I bet it's the second field (position 6 currently with the value of 3)

If I understand you: awk '{ $6=1 } 1' FS=";" OFS=";" inputfile > outputfile

You may add this at the beginning of /etc/profile

# Environment used in interactive mode is to be defined here
case "$0" in
-ksh | -sh) # add here the shells used...

Given that /etc/inittab is a system file that could be replaced during an upgrade (okay, so you probably won't be patching AIX 4) I would suggest it is a bad place to put things. Assuming it has the...

You are right, sorry. That was an oversight on my part.



OK. Can you post the script you have trouble with? Because, honestly, i have written scripts and put them in inittab before and i didn't...

OK, so at least we have established you are using AIX. Care to tel us which version? Issue:

oslevel -s

to display it. Please post the output.



You should - under absolutely no...

To help you, we'd have to know a bit more about the script...
Who do you think runs the script in /etc/inittab ?

Let's say it must be oracle, and as we all kmow, oracle will not run like that,...