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I cannot get the xterm window to be typed in properly ..... I can paste the $TERM in it bu I am not successful in getting to press the enter key in that window .....

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Hello, everyone.
I have successfully installed Xming and I am using Putty to connect to AIX 6.1. I am able to run xclock etc and they display graphically well, when I execute xterm I am getting a...

Thanks,
that was it ..... by putting in -b "" (for email empty body) it works like a charm! The body of the email is empty and I get an attachment showing. Thanks Perderabo, Corona688, and all, you...

Hello, all,
I have been trying to use what Perderabo has given to send attachment via email., but I am not getting the attachments, what I see on the receiving email system are the attachments...

I thought so, yet it does not it just hangs and I have to ctrl-c out of it ..... what could be causing this, is my format right?

Hello everyone,
just wondering if this type of if condition will execute properly.
Suppose I have a script with two functions in it called abc and def:
is this code valid, or is there a better way...

Just curious:
Is there anyway to get something 'like' this to work, where the var is used for the / / construct ?
awk -v var="TestString" '/ var /' file
Any suggestion is appreciated.

In other words, my question is about how to write an awk statement that will use the variable and use it in the form of a statement like:
awk -v var="TestString" '/ var /' file
to achieve...

Hello all,
can you explain why this filter does not work, it prints all the lines in the file:
awk -v sel="TestString" 'sel' file while these work:
awk '/TestString/' file
awk -v...

Hello all,
quick question:
is it possible to pass input into AWK BOTH with a pipe AND a file at the same time, something like this:

command .......|awk '.................' FILEIN > fileout

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Hello everyone,
Can someone please explain the input buffer behaviour for the read command in ksh93 on AIX?
I have 'googled' for weeks now, and did not find a satisfactory answer or solution to my...

Hello everyone,
I am trying to embed some tcl code inside a ksh93 script but I am not having any success.
I even tried the simplest of code, something like this:
.
.
jk=$(echo $(tcl << |...

I do not think I can use decimals ....
ksh[22]: read: -t: numeric.
timeout argument expected
Usage: .
read [-Aprs] [-d delim] [-u filenum] [-t timeout] [-n nbytes] [name...].

When I try the -t0 -n1 options to the read then I can only exit by CTRL+C. ...
Thanks

Hello everyone,
I would like some help on an issue I have related to the read command with ksh93 (Unix AIX).
I want to implement a 'press any key to exit' scenario.
I have the following code:
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I response to last comment: pressing return when select is in place does not give me back control, therefore I cannot issue a CLEAR.
Experiment yourself and you will see what I mean. How can I trap...

Hello everyone,
A simple question which may have a suggested solution:
I am using, and loving, the select command in a ksh93 script on AIX 6.1 to present users with menus.
I have been successful...

Hello,
I have something that should be very simple yet I am losing my head in figuring out how to get it to work:
I am calling a function passing a parameter, this will return a particular string,...

Hello,
I am running on AIX.I have a question about sorting in UNIX.
if my file is something like this:

a c
b d
a b
b c
a a

I want to sort on column 1 only. The following...

I have this working with grep
grep 'PV1\|\([^|]*\|\)\{16\}\|X' infile > outfile

but the same regexp does not work in awk:
awk '/PV1\|\([^|]*\|\)\{16\}\|X/ {print $0}' infile > outfile

Any...

Hello,
I have thousand of messages (HL7), I want to use awk to extract only the ones that have a particular value in pv1.18
Each record in the file is the whole HL7 message, ie. when I print $0 I...

I do not have access to nawk, would this code be portable to regular AIX awk?
Thanks!

Hello everyone,
I have been struggling with the following situation, I think I am doing something wrong, can anyone help?
I have 2 comma separated files, the first is a look-up table that will...

I have the .forward in my $HOME location ..... by the way /var/spool/mail/<yourname>.
is where according to man mail:
a user's system mailbox is a file located in the /var/spool/mail directory....

Hello everyone,
I am trying to create a forwarding scenario, and I do not seem to get it right!
I created a .forward file in the directory where my personal mailbox resides. In the file is the...