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My system doesn't have a problem with the brackets. Just with the space. Thanks for your help - guess I'll keep working on this one in my spare time and do a work around for now. I've looked...

Does anyone know how to get unix to ignore a space. I know how to ignore a special character, how to ignore a line, but this I'm lost on. I've searched the web, talked to everyone I know personally...

I am trying to send a fax from the unix box through our mail server. I am able to send pages, files, etc. but for the fax the mail server requires a space that I can't get unix to accept. The...

Nevermind - got it to work was over complicating things. The correct script is:

mail "9999999999@uo.com" < filename

I am trying to send mail to a pager. I am able to send e-mails to other systems, but this is not sending the message through. The page works but the text message is not displayed. Does anyone see...

I haven't had to post a question in the forum for sometime now. I have been able to find the answers to all of my questions simply by looking around and usually find them just by reviewing the new...

Can someone tell me what the smit.script file does? I'm having a problem with one of my boxes pointing at the wrong webserver. This is the only place I can find the wrong address, but I'm not sure...

Thank you for the fast response A4.

I created tar files for directories using this command:

tar -cvf * >tarfile

what happened was I got a file tarfile with a list of the files and it took the first file in each directory and...

Thank you sooooo much. Looking at the web-sites now and buying the book tonight.

Not sure if this question is for out here or not - I know very little about PERL. Most of the scripts on the system I am working on now are in PERL, I'm confused with where this fits into Unix...

Thank you - it is there now and apologize for interrupting the password thread.

Thought I would share the final product with you. This is giving the company what it needed. I know my coding leaves alot to be desired and any critiques are welcome. I'm just learning again and I...

What about rcp instead of ftp?

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH - it worked - I'm still trying to figure out how - but it works! Thank you!:)

True, on the sample file - but on some of the ~ST is near the end of the line and continues on the next line - when this is the case the ~ST is on one line and the 440601 would on the next line. I...

Well it almost worked. The problem I'm having is that some of the data wraps around multiple lines and for them it's pulling blanks. The 3rd and 5th lines in the sample text show the problem. I...

It is so nice to find a site where you can actually get answers to Unix questions - I've found most of my answers just my searching - but was amazed at the fast response to the nightmare file...

I think I'm getting a complex

I'm just getting back into UNIX - but I was impressed - I'd been working on it for 3 days - he came up with it in less than an hour

Perderabo, you are wonderful - Thank you very much it worked perfectly.

Here is the actual sample - whoops
~REF^BO^C61102^BIN LOCATION~PO1^29^6.00^PK^9.50^^VC^435916^IN^916~PID^F^^^^PAD, DRI FLOW (12/PK 6PK/CS)~ACK^AC^6.00^PK~REF^
AP^C400=PK ^ ...

Here is a sample of the file - the '~ST' appears at the end of every record. What I need to pull out is the 5th field from the ~ST (fields are seperated by '^') based on the value of 855 or 856 in...

I need to pick a field out of a variable record - the field is always found 4 fields after a certain text string, but it can be on any line of the record and in any position across the record on a...