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Thanks reborg and AWK for your replies. I did not know about tar. This does the trick for me. I gathered them together with tar and zipped them up with gzip. Transfered without any fuss.

Everyday...

So you're saying that if a directory(folder) is holding say 50 files in say ten sub-directories then the only option to transfer these files onto a local machine is to go into each sub-directory and...

Does anyone know why I can't transfer a directory containing files from a remote directory to a local directory using psftp. If I take the file out of the directory but put it in the same place as...

That's the job. Thanks for the quick reply.

Hi,
I am trying to get a date printed in the following format:
dd/mm/yyyy.
I have used the date +%d/&m/%y and with this I get dd/mm/yy. Only the two year digits. Does anyone know how I can expand...

It's alright folks,

after messing about with the script a bit I figured it out.

Just use the positional parameter as an argument to the function as so:

display_file $1

Hi,
Can someone please explain to me how I can get a function to recognize a file given as an argument to a script.

Suppose the script has the argument as follows:

sh script file

and the...

Yeah thanks reborg. I was thinking that there was something that I was doing wrong. The positional parameter referencing thinglymijig. Thanks again.

Hi,

I am trying to sum up numbered columns and in order to tidy up the program I have wrote a function to do the adding of some numbers. I have a problem though with passing a variable to the...

but what if I need more fields depending on the number of fields in the variable?

Hi,

Is it possible to use a variable as a fieldname parameter for the cut command. I am trying to extract fields from a variable. Say that I want to cut the fields 1,3,5,7,9, etc, but I don't...