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hi

i have a file which is like this :

aab ghj
ghj lsklk
lklkl;
ashjd
kjs
alskj

How do i remove the spaces from the beginning of a line so that all lines are indented to the...

I was going through a find tutorial and just couldn't get it...can someone explain it like he/she would explain a brain damaged dodo?

"find allows you to specify a pattern that can be bit-wise...

i am using the bash shell by the way. solaris

The following is a segment from that post.
"There is a command called [ and like many commands it takes parameters. It checks its last parameter and gets mad unless it is ]. If the last parameter is...

what is the rationale behind putting double square brackets in an if clause?

for e.g.

if [[ ${APPNAME} = '' ]] || [[ ${SRCSYSNAME} = '' ]] || [[ ${FILENAME} = '' ]];
then
echo some fields are...

the test error is probably because the wc command displays its output separated by 7 spaces from the start of the line. so when u do cut -c1,2, only the first 2 columns are getting selected which are...

then simply add this to anbu's code
cat filename|while read line
do
echo $line|awk '{print $7}'|sed "s/\(.\{4\}\)\(..\)\(..\)\(..\)\(..\)\(..\)/\3-\2-\1 \4:\5:\6/">>filename2
done

umm..how abt this?

awk '/$1/' inputfile>temp

awk '{for ( $0 in `cat temp` )
key[$0]++
if(key[$0] < 2 ) print $0
}' inputfile > outputfile


i didnt try this out, but i hope the logic is...

the default field separator is space and the default record (line) separator is the newline character. Now, if u remove the record separator and put the field separator as the newline character, then...

thanks! after a cloudy day, its a sunny one again!

Hi!

Can someone tell me what does the '.)1' (highlighted in bold and between the two awk scripts) do? Guess it connects the two scripts but what is the reason or logic behind this syntax?

...

Thanks! it worked. But why didnt awk work? coz the tutorial was written for Awk, not nawk. The tutorial was for Solaris n my flavor is also Solaris. It was written in 1989 tho - did that make any...

Hi!

In an awk tutorial i was reading (from www.grymoire.com), it was mentioned that i can set the input field separator to more than one character using FS. However when i tried it out, it wasnt...

can you or anybody tell me how to make backspace work in vi? when i press backspace, it simply moves one place to the left.

slire,

Its not possible to get the file creation date in UNIX. Thats the answer i have got after going thru the threads on this topic. The only things u can get are time of last modification n...

as for the time at which the command was executed, i really dont know... sorry

use the script command

$ script logfile

..
...set of commands
...

$ exit

it will store all the commands u hv typed in logfile. tho it doesnt store commands like vi properly

hmmm...i'll chk it out n let u know...am also a newbie :)

hi vgersh99


can u plz explain ur code? for a newbie, its difficult to understand the latter half of the code..

clarify a few things...the data u'll be inserting will be in a file? n the no. of rows in that file is equal to the no. of rows in the file to which u wanna insert?

i mean, if u have 10 rows in...

hey the option is not -1, its -l (el)...use it...it'll work fine

for the second part, after >existentfiles, type 2>nonexistentfiles it will send the error output to nonexistentfiles

ls -l|while read line
do
awk '$5 != 0 {print $0}'
done>file1


$5 is the fifth field in output of ls - l which gives the no. of characters in the file. so i hv written all the files which dont...

just remove the spaces in each line using sed

cat file|while read line
do
sed 's/ //'
done>output_file

try out

fg %<name of process>

eg

fg %sort will bring the background process sort into the foreground

plz give the complete script, n plz copy paste it. closing back-quotes are missing in the script. what do u want the for loop to do?

ls 1 /appl/CH_DATA/archive/CACHE/CDBACKUP$name*.archived
...