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Out of the blue for some odd reason I am no longer able to telnet to one of my SCO Unix servers. I can ping, ftp and do a traceroute to it, just cant telnet. When I attempt to telnet to it, I just...

Ahhh! Thanks Scrutinizer! :b:

Hi all!
Need a little help on a sed command that I've used in the past, but I'd like to change it up a bit. Here is my script


SearchVal = "RED"
ReplaceVal = "BLUE"
wrkFile = /u/tmp/file1...

Gotcha! I was planning on changing the permissions to the unix script, just thought maybe I'd also have the location of this file defined as a variable in a private location. I'll try defining it in...

Trying to access a file that I would not want any other user to know where this file resides. Hope I make sense.... :confused: Basically I created a unix script to manipulate data in a text file that...

oopps! I Meant "Define Variables within a UNIX Script"


What would be the best way to define a variable in a unix shell script so anyone who views this script doesn't know what value is assigned...

Ok thanks again CarloM for all your help. :D Have a good day.

Thank you so much CarloM! I was wondering though what is it in the printf command that pads the data with space? I was wondering if say I wanted to pad with zero's instead of spaces. :)

Thanks again CarloM, but now lets say I change "PHOENIX" to "LAS VEGAS" it separates "LAS" as a 20 characters and "VEGAS" as the next 20 characters. Sorry to keep making this harder than what it...

Awesome! Thanks CarloM.
Small problem though.... How would I pad data I replaced with spaces. Lest say I would like to search for name "CLARK KENT" and replace the city "LAS VAGAS" with "DEMING"....

Hmmm? So I tested the sed command and didn't get any results. Am I doing something wrong??

Hi All,
I have a file that I would like to search for data and replace other data by record position number:

Example search..
search for "CLARK KENT" and replace Amt data "000025" with...

Thanks guys!:b:

Not sure what I'm doing wrong here???? Trying to execute a grep command within a unix script and keep getting an error. Here is an example of the process I'm trying to execute

a="\"JERRY...

Yes I am somewhat familiar with this command, but the data that I am replacing can't shift right or left. This file must stay as a fixed format to be read by other processes. So if i search for data...

Hi all!
I'm a newbie and I'm writing a script which will ask a user for data to search. I will then search for this data using grep and displaying this data back to the screen for the user to see....

Yeah thanks Corona688 going to use with the "test -e" command instead. :) thanks again everyone for the help.

I figured it out... I'm going to just redirect the error message from the screen to an error file etc.

ls /etc/filename 2> /dev/null |wc -l

Thanks for the help Yazu and verdepollo!

Sorry for the dumb question. :confused: looking for a way to search for a file and just return me a value of say like 0 or 1. When I use the ls or find command and file name does not exists, the...

Awesome!!! Thank you very much Shell_Life, that worked like a champ. :b:

Awesome! Thanks Shell_Life, one thing though as I inserted these 4 characters my data shifted to the right 4 spaces. Anyway to do this without shifting the data over??

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I'm looking for a way to read a text file that may contain 1000 records or more and each of these records has 460 characters. I need to read each record, and add a string of characters starting...