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How do I capture an error for any command I use.

For e.g if i try to zip a file and the file is not there. The regualr $? -gt 0 only tells its un-successful but won't tell me that the file is...

thanks. this works only to get the date for present day -1

I want to get it for any date that is present

for e.g... if i have 20120704 i want to get 20120703

Linux and ksh

I have date in the format YYYYMMDD

I need to subtract 1 day from this and get the date in the same format as YYYYMMDD

How can I do that?

I have files as below



I need to have all the files renamed as below



There are 100 of files like this. How can I do this?

tks pravin27. I have one quick question.

After I get the decrypted files i need to encrypt them. I need to attach .pgp at the end of the filenames i just derived. How can I do that.

this is truncating the directory path it needs to write to. I don't know where the file is being written to

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Tks. But i have many files in there and I need to derive it with the cut and echo command for each file o\p

I have a file named XXX_TEF_20120530234576.txt.pgp

I am creating a new file with the below syntax but looks it doesnt like the redirection

for file in XXX_TEF_20120530234576.txt.pgp ;do;
echo...

I need the parameter to resolve to the full file name.

the * resolves to hours minutes in the file name

I don't want a * in the run time.

I want the FILE value to resolve to the full...

I have a file with timestamp in the file name

FILE=DETAIL_20120419141952_CODE.txt

I am using the below expression to derive the file name

FILE=DETAIL_$(date +'%Y%m%d')*_CODE.txt

echo...

I need to check if the parameters are correctly passed based on the Environment I am in.

For e.g when I am in dev the 1st paramter needs to be either A OR B OR C OR D
similarly when I am in qa...

i am using ksh

I have a situation where my variable needs to pick up any of the 4 values from the environment it is in

for e.g i am on server named a

server=a (script running on this server)
ftp servers= b c...

I have a file with two fields seperated by comma

data looks like below with the header



The o/p should look like this



Basically, the req is to replace only the first occuring comma...

how can i run the script if its less than a particular time only in unix.

for e.g the script kicks off at 9AM and looks for some file etc. I want to make sure it runs only till 12PM and then...

I need a while loop that checks for a file existence if it exists it exits with 0 rerturn code, if not it shold check to see if its last day of the month then wait and check for every 5 mnutes
until...

Aigles

I am doing only the below commands






How can I make sure I have same number of record count after using awk command?

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Scottn,

I didn't really get it. what do you mean by original file missing new line?:confused:

I am having problem running an awk commad on a file
Before applying awk command on the file


After applying


I don't expect more than 409743 records in the file. Why do I have 1 record more...

I have a file with 27 fields seperated by pipe. I have a field 17 that is defined as numeric and the data coming in might contain character and
other miscellaneous data like (@,!,~,#,%,^,&,*,(,)). ...

Thanks Scottn and bartus

scottn,

I am getting below error with your command



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got it. figured out

I have a pipe delimited file with 27 fields. Each record has 26 fields. I need to search for the 25,26,27 fields and replace "," with nothing.

How can I acheive this. Sed is more preferred.
...

Thanks Vgresh. Is there a way we can do it in sed. I am using couple of other sed commands on the file. Hence would like to see if we can do it in sed.