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Both solutions remove the blank lines; however, Joeyg's example removes all blank lines. I just need to match the dhcp host blocks then reove blank lines.

Franklin52's example removes all the...

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I have a dhcpd.conf file that gets static hosts added and removed via a shell script. After sometime, there becomes huge gaps of space ( blank lines ) between each host block. I tried a...

Thank you very much for you help. Both the for and while loops worked great.

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I'm having a problem with the way awk is interperting a space between double quotes in a for loop. Below is the code and output from running the script:

AWK for loop:
for i in $(awk...

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I need help using the native Solaris 8 ftp client. I need to ftp through a ftp proxy. How would this be confiured on Solaris 8? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you Ygor! The paste command and delimiter flag worked.

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I have been trying to format a file using sed. I can't seem to get the syntax right. I want to append the string from file1.txt to file1.csv with the final output file being file2.csv, but...

Thank you vgersh99! The nawk commands worked perfectly. I have been trying all day to do the same thing with sed.

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I have been trying to format a file using sed. I can't seem to get the syntax right. I want to append the next line delemited by a comma or a comma and double quotes. Here is an example of...

I figured it out. I used fgrep.

md5_value=`fgrep '$' /opt/hostconfigs/$HOST`

Now when I echo $md5_value, it prints the hash value.

I have a script that runs the grub-md5-crypt command based on whether the pass_value variable is a non-zero string. The md5 hash is being created in the /opt/hostconfigs/$HOST file, but I can't echo...

Thank you, zazzybob. It worked exactly like I wanted it to.

I am searching a dhcpd.conf to find the hardware ethernet match, then once the match is found delete just the line above it. For example:

testmachine.example {
hardware ethernet...

I need to install ypbind and yp-tools on over two-hundred remote client machines based on their redhat version. I have a centralized server on which I created an ssh public key. I then transfered the...

I have setup a pxe linux server. I am trying to edit the boot.msg file. I want to customize it using various colors. I need to be able to put a control charcter followed by the color code. For...

I am trying to edit a syslinux msg file. I want to precede color codes with control characters. I have tried insert mode, then control v followed by the color code; however, I continue to get " [O "...

I have been given the responsibility of installing, configuring, and administering are new sunray servers. I am not that familiar with Solaris; however, I have done some administration on Linux. I...

If I do the data transfer in single-user mode, do I need to use Solaris cd1 and boot cdrom -s. Then mount the each partition from the primary drive, that I want to copy, to the /a directory of the...

I have just been assigned the task of upgrading to a larger disk on a e250; however, I am use to working on Linux and x86 hardware. I would be very appreciative if someone could inform me on how this...

There were ^M characters at the end of each line. After removing them the script worked perfectly. Thank you for your help!

I am having a problem with awk when I run it with a loop. It works perfectly when I echo a single line from the commandline. For example:

echo 'MFG009 9153852832' | awk '$2 ~...

I am trying to search through a text file and replace the number 1 at the beginning of the string in the second field with the number 9. There maybe one or more occurrences of whitespace between the...

How can I compare two decimal values within a function using Bash? Function fun2 isn't comparing the decimal values. Is there a way to do this using Bash or Korn?


#!/bin/bash
set -x


x=1...

Perderabo,

Thank you for your help. The script is working perfectly.

One more question, can the datecalc script be used to calculate yesterdays date? Agian, I am dealing with quarter month...

Perderabo,

Thank you for the script. I am still a novice at shell scripting, so please bear with me. I tried running the script, and I received the following errors. Is this datecalc another...