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I got it working. Using "printf" instead of "print" did the trick.

Well here is the output of the command you gave me:

[root@rmhesx01 scripts]# cat adam2 | od -An -t dC -w10
86 77 95 78 65 77 69 58 10 32
32 32 32 32 32 10 74 ...

Just tried that and the output looks exactly the same.

I have also tried unix2dos with no success.

Here is my full script:
#!/bin/bash
#
# Written by Adam Stahl on 1/9/09
#
# ...

Hello,

I have a bash shell script and I use awk to print certain columns of one file and direct the output to another file. If I do a less or cat on the file it looks correct, but if I email the...

Thanks. I used the following command:
/bin/df -t nfs | /bin/grep /backup

Thanks again for your help.

Hello,

I have a backup script that backs up my system to a nfs mounted file system. The mount point on my local system is /backup.

I want my script to check whether the nfs file system is...

Ok,

I've managed to access internal disks when booting from cd-rom, but what I really need to do is access an external disk.

When I'm booted up in multi-user mode, the device name for the disk...

Hello,

I've booted a Digital Unix 4.0D system from cd-rom and I need to access the system's disk drives. I need to run the fixfdmn utility on the root domain so I need to create the root domain...

Hello,

This might be a dumb question, but I havent been able to find the answer anywhere.

I currently have a backup script that uses 'tar' to backup some files to tape. I need to add a...

Thank you very much Perderabo, but I realized something after I posted my question. I need the format of the date to be '02-dec-2005:15:30'. I need to have the date included so my script will work...

The OS is Digital Unix and Tru64 Unix. I wont be able to test your command until Monday. Do you know if it works on those OSes?

Hello,

Im writing a script using the ksh shell. I have 2 variables in the script:

CURRTIME
PREVTIME

Example, if CURRTIME=13:00, I want to somehow calculate what the time was an hour ago so...

I believe I have figured out the problem. I found the following in the Sendmail man page:

# Queue-Only Load Average (option QueueLA): #
# ...

It's not being mailed to a remote system. It is being mailed to the "root" account on the local system.

Hello,

I have a bunch of cron jobs in the crontab. For some reason mail from the cron jobs started going to /var/spool/mqueue instead of being sent.

Does anyone know why mail from cron jobs...

I did find the job in one other user's crontab file. However, that user is not listed in the /usr/var/adm/cron/cron.allow file so her crontab file should never even run. I am going to remove the...

Hello,

I'm running OSF1 V4.0 alpha. We used to have a job running from the cron at 6am everyday. We have removed the job from the crontab file, but the job still runs at 6am everyday. The job...

Nevermind. I figured it out. I had to include the full path to wall. (/usr/sbin/wall)

Hello,

Ive written a little script that broadcasts a message if certain criteria are met. The script works fine when I run it.

I entered it in the crontab to run every hour on the hour. The...

Thanks kduffin. I didnt even know the od command existed.

when I enter the command "echo adam | wc -c" 5 gets outputted to the screen.

adam = 4 characters

I dont understand why it wouldnt be 4?

thanks oombera. I might use this but I'm helping a friend write a script for an Inro. to Unix class and the class doesnt cover the awk command. Could you list any other ways that you know?

and...

I havent done shell scripting in quite some time. I want to know how to count the number of characters in a word, specifically a parameter.

Example: myscript hello

I want "myscript" to...

Why would anyone ever type in a command like this:

nohup command &



nohup lets you logout of your telnet session so why add "&" to run it in the background?

There is no .profile file for the root user. It should reside in "/". Can I just copy a .profile file into "/"?