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Thanks, I would try that but the only option is to ftp these files, as the Data General Box has a DLT but my home server running freebsd does not have this type of drive

I checked for bin/sh and it's there and the paths are also there, so it's really strange...I also checked permissions on the folders and contents and whether or not executable...they all appear to be...

thanks, I'll check and get back to you

thanks guys, the trouble is that you's have spoiled me with always giving timely responses to previous posts, and so I was thinking that I should have posted in a different group...ie -general...

Hi Guys...(if anyone is out there), do these specialist posts ever get answered and do we just have to bide our time and be patient, or whats the deal

Does anyone know how to find out what flavour of Unix "Data General" is closest too.. heres what I need to do, I need to install one of the available free flavours on my Intel Pc at home, So as I can...

Hi,

I recently installed FreeBSD 6.0, and am now trying to run my newly created sh scripts, that I ftp'd over from my works Data General - Unix server, I thought they would at least sumwhat/part...

Can anyone explain to me why the first line doesn't work and the second seems to work fine. I am trying to find all occurances of text within a certain column (col 13) that start with the character...

Thanks, I tried both the:...

nawk '{print substr($0, length($0)-1)}' text.file

and also the

sed 's/^.*\(..\)$/\1/' text.file

and both these work...

thanks for that I'll give it a try in the morning when I get to work...

Can anyone explain to me how to get the last two chars' from each row of Column (each row being variable in length) using awk, some of the lines will be blank, I'll be running a paste after awking....

Thanks for that, it works a treat!

thanks for that, I tried it this morning and it's just the job...many thanks to all....

Are there no other ways to do this besides installing a program, I need something as well at the Unix end shell script wise

I just have these

# ls -lt /usr/bin/*sh*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root other 271 Nov 30 2001 /usr/bin/shtty
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 5 Oct 19 1999 /usr/bin/rsh -> remsh...

Thanks,


I tried the below code in bash, perhaps I don't have bash on my system as I get the following error now

# ls -lt Iptestger WAITING
-rwx------ 1 root other 2118 Oct 31...

Hi,

Sorry to take so long to get back to you, I am finally getting round to implementing the code as you suggested, but right off the bat I get the following message

UX:sh (./Iptestger):...

I have tried this as suggested, but it does not work for me, below is what I thought would work, but it does not even stop at the sleep 3000 part, I know it is because of the ftp part but don't know...

Thanks for that, it now works with the sample file posted, I had a space between the "BASE" and "="

the real gerry.txt has blanks lines in it and thats where it falls over now

Apologies...humbly

using the data posted I get the following output

UX:ksh: ERROR: BASE: not found
Dec 07 05 is older
Oct 14 05 is older
Dec 09 05 is older
Nov 11 05 is older
Oct 05 05...

Perderabo...thanks for that it seems to run a lot quicker now
also some of the lines in the file are blank, don't know if that would be relevant or not, but I need to keep these there untouched
...

tried that and same errors again

Oct is older
UX:touch: ERROR: Bad date conversion
Oct is older
UX:touch: ERROR: Bad date conversion
Oct is older
UX:touch: ERROR: Bad date conversion...

....tried #! /bin/bash and it puts out a not found

Sorry Guys , so I 've changed the heading to

#! /bin/Ksh

now I get the following errors

UX:touch: ERROR: Bad date conversion
is older...

Hi Again Vino,


Sorry to be a pain but I now get an error..
UX:sh (./DateVino): ERROR: Bad substitution

#! /bin/sh
# gerry.sh
# input 071205
# output Dec 07 2005
# Base date is Oct 19,...

Hi thanks for those, but none of them seem to work on my flavour DataGeneral unix

monsanbu

From the first script I get lots of the following:
inputdate: bad number
inputdate: bad number...