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This is not "for" problem...
I don't think when we use for loop we have to do the explicit couting again.... is is not a while loop...

Nope..., it is still not working...

Hi All,
I have the following script, where I am copying a list of files from one location to another location. The permissions, owners are fine. Why i am getting cp: cannot access error when i run...

Thanks for your conern...

I am going to write a script that checks the file time stamp and compares this to the current time. If the difference <= 5 minutes I will check the contents of the file....

Hi,

I have a file that gets a line added to the end of it frequently by a program. How can I get that last line into a line variable.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

Hi,
Could anybody help me how can I assign the value of "select count(*) from table1" to a variable in an unix shell script. Thanks.

Thank you. It works.

ls -Flt | awk '{print $5, $9}' | while read filesize
do
echo $filesize | cut -d ' ' -f1 | read size
if [ $size -ge 204800 ] ...

Can anyone explain the second and third fields in /etc/passwd.
Thanks.

I know..listing the files/directory names with 5 characters.

Thanks very much.

I tried

ls -Flt dir| awk '{print $9}' | head -5

but your command is most straight forward.

Names would be fine.

These are kind of log files and I need the last 5 files.

Hi,
Is there a way that we can get the last files (ex, recent 5 files) that came into a directory. Thanks.

This is HP unix 10.2.

Hi,
How can I kill/forcibly log off the users from the unix system except one user who will be using the start up script.
Thanks, NG

ls -Flt `grep -lF 'bcapp' $HOME/STAT/sys/asr_spool/in/*` | awk '{print $6, $7, $8}'

WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You guys are great..!
Thanks a lot.

I am trying to read the timestamp only.

When I try to run

l -t `grep -lF 'abc' $HOME/bin/shells/*` | awk '{print $6,$7,$8}' command, I am just getting empty lines...

Sorry I do not understand.
Do you think I can get the latest file on the top of the list with the above command? (or if we modify it)?

Thanks for the help.

Thanks for the reply.
I am using the same command and it is funny that even though I use ls -Fl, the list is not in that order. I am trying to get the list with latest file top in the list. ls -Fl...

I want to have the timestamps of the files containing a specific string in them.
I have tried using different combinations of find command and grep and ls but not giving the desired output.

find...

Hi Kemisola,
I tried your script. It is not giving any errors and at the same time I could not see the output. I tried redirecting the output to another file and it did not work either. Where and...

Thank you very much for your concern. Really appreciate it.

It is actually called, system integration file. In unix, we have SIF files that we receive from other systems.

The format looks like this...,

XYZHEADER 20020503
...

Does anybody know how do we parse a file (ex. SIF file) into a delimited text file in UNIX?