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The company i am working for has just bought two new RS/6000's.

We have copied all scripts over from our current system onto the two new boxes and we are testing them before we go live with the...

I have written a script that appears to work correctly in testing, but is coming up with a starnge error message,

script_name[187]: test: 0403-004 Specify a parameter with this command.
...

I have a file containing two fields, Name and Time, with about 57 lines in this file. I am struggling to create a loop that will cut out the first ten lines of this file and echo it to the screen....

Hi i am trying to set up an IF statement that says if FILE1 exists or FILE2 exists do a command. I am struggling to remember what i need to put in for the OR statement. i have the following

if [...

The problem has now been solved thank you for your help.

Operatoring system AIX 5.1

example code,


function error_routine
{
while read user_id day_no month time error_file
do
USER=`grep ${user_id} $passwordfile | sed 's/:/ /g' | awk '{...

I have a function where i am imputting data to the function. Within the function is a while loop reading the data put into the function. I want to put a FOR loop within the while loop but it keeps...

Hi

i am trying to grep a specific word out of a file but it is bring up every instance of the word even if it is part of another word.

For example i am trying to grep the word ist, now there...

I wonder if any body can help me with a command i am struggling with. I have a file with around 400 lines in, in a program i have it pulls out each line at a time so that data from the line can be...

Thank you for your assistance, your suggestion works fine.

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me. I have a file with about 200 lines in it. I am wanting to set up a Count so that it picks out each line at turn and edits the line. However i am having trouble...

Thanks for that, i had just thought of that as well. Problem is now solved.

Can anybody help please.

I am trying to right a script which will loop until a certain action has been performed. For example i current have two batch jobs i would like to put into a wait status....

Hi could someone help please,

The problem i have is that within a for loop in Unix scripting i want to loop a line seven times before it continues onto the next part of the script. I am...

Thanks Ygor, i am humble to your superior knowledge. It works what you suggested but could you please give my a brief summary of how it works it out.

I do not think this will work as it will on pick out the first couple of lines. I need something that will pick up lines 1&2 use them in the script, then loop back and use lines 2&3, then loop back...

I have a file that has a list of numbers in it. Each line has a different number. I am trying to create some sort of loop within a script that will pick the numbers up on lines 1 and 2 and then put...