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Thank you.

Thank you very much this works just fine.

Hello All,

Below is a simple script i worte to find the 208th char in a file. If the char = "C" then I re-direct the line to a file called change.txt. If it is not "C" then I re-direct it to a...

Dear vgersh99,

One more followup question if you do not mind? I may need to compare other files where the static data is not just in the first field arr[$1].

It could be the 1st and 3rd ...

COuld be the version of awk. More likely me and something I am doing. But it does what i need for now. And it is all thanks to your help.

Again, thank you for taking the time to help.

I did try it w/o =1 or !=1. When I did I got no results. As soon as I put the =1 and !=1. It displayed results.

Yes that would help. you can tell I am a newbie. Works great. I changed it slightly but it works.

awk -F'|' '
NR==FNR { arr[$1]=1; next }
arr[$1] !=1' $HOME/$WORK/$NewFile...

I did after I sent the reply. Sorry should have thought before I typed.

THank you for the reply.

Unfortunately I am running ina UNIX emulator WIndows Services for Unix. It does not ahve nawk. can this be done in awk?

I have an awk statement where I Need to pass an environment variable but I cannot get it to work:

My evironment varible examples below:
$FILE1=/dev/fs/file.new
$FILE2=/dev/fs/file.old

Code...

anbu23,

Thank you very much. this works great. I assume with a fixed length file I could use awk's substr command?

I also have two files that are fixed length where the first 20 characters is...

Hi,

I need to compare todays file to yesterdays file to find deletes.
I cannot use comm -23 file.old file.new.

Because each record may have a small change in it but is not really a delete....

works great. thanks. I tried everthing bu. feel dumb now. I tried "" and `` did not think of single qoutes

Hi,

I would like to pass a wild card as part of an argument. But when I do it the script views the wild card as text.
Example:
sFile=MG1A*
sort $sFile > $sFile.sorted

What I get is...

I need to find deleted records from a file. I compare yesterdays file.old to todays file.new. I need to find the records that were in yesterdays file that are not in todays. My file is fixed field....

Wow,

Thank you for such a quick response. I tried these and the 3rd suggested post works best for what I need.

Thank you again.

Hi,

I have a file that has multiple spaces between characters. I want to delete or convert the multiple spaces into a single space. I think this can be done in "sed" but I only know the syntax to...