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Thanks very much Tyler really appreciate your help, have a good rest of the week!

bk

Hello,

This may not be the right place to ask for help for this problem but i might be because i'm using Java & SqlPlus in alot of Kshell scripts.

Just to give a high level picture, i'm...

Thanks very much ShawMilo i will give that a try, appreicate that!

BobK

hello, i'm trying to figure out a way to limit the output from an SQL query that is counting the number of occurances of a value in a field and the problem is when i run this query against a huge...

thanks Jim i will keep on that track, appreciate the recommendation!

BobK

Hello,

I did a search on this forum and a global search to try and find out how to disable that annoying beep that you get when you mistype or hit the esc key in VI and i didn't have that problem...

thanks vgersh99 works great, have a good weekend all

bk

ok that gave me an idea and i found this in an old script and it seems to to the job sortof now i just need to figure out how to trim the . & : out of the concatenated variable name:

export...

ok thanks i'll try that out!

bk

hello i'm trying to figure out how to tack the directory name onto the file name when i do the ls -ltrR command please?
...

hello,

i thought this should work to specify that i want to "cp" all files no matter what the case, ie upper or lower, as i have 2 files called Makefile and mak

cp -i mak*

but apparently...

great thanks!

have a good one!:p

thanks again all ! this forum is beyond awesome!!! :b:

thanks DAVEBEYOU! that works too!:p

thanks ROBOTRONIC! works great, i've been trying to figure that one out for several years believe it or not and now i really need it cos i've got some dirs with hundreds of files in it and can find...

Hello, the ls -d command to only list directories in a directory doesn't seem to work on Solaris and the man command says to use that combination: ls -d

Anyone have the same problem and find a...

Thanks again Shell Life! you did it again! saved me several more hours of hit and miss!

Hope you're having a nice weekend!

BobK

also, i'm seeing that the data in my post has shifted to the left but when you see "aaaa bbbb ccccc" it's really like " aaaaa bbbbb", where there are a varying number of spaces in...

Hello,

if i have a file with this in it:

aaaa bbbb cccc dddd

how can i read that file and move the first column only into a variable?

i've been trying the cut command but...

this site should hire you full time or set up some kind of Kudo's or donate button!

wow! thanks again ShellLife! works great!

can't say enough how helpful you've been over time, saved me many hours!

have a great week!

BobK

How can i scan a file in a UNIX script and look for a particular keyword?

For example if i wanted to scan the file "lpcmp165.out" and see if it contains the term "error" or "ERROR" and then return...

super! thanks again!

really appreciate all the great help!

BobK

hello, is there a way to seperate commands that are on the same line?

ie: echo "yes count(*)>0:" $passvar > dsp cat dsp cat dsp > log

i'm trying to put these 3 commands on the same...

great that worked fine!

thanks alot ShelfLife!

Bobk