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The underlying problem seems to be that whenever it finds a match when its sorted. It compares additional data after the account number to see if they are equal. I want the sort to just ignore...

Hey guys.

I am trying to sort a file by account number through UNIX. I have a few things but it seems to sort by account number AND sort everything after the account number.

Help please.
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One last thing.

So now I offically have this date '20080217' and now I only want to capture the month and day '0217' to be exact.

I tried using the cut command and that doesnt seem to be...

Thanks again!! :)

thanks den for your help. Simple solution.

One more thing though, I need a way to find out what day of the week a certain date is.

For example, if the date returned by what den posted,...

Hey guys.

I need to manipulate the system date to move forward a day. So, if the system date was 02/14/08, I need the 'new' date to be 02/15/08 so my script will look for the date of 02/15/08. ...

What I need to do is write a unix script that will do the above.

Thanks

Hey guys.

What I need to do is this:

I need to find files that have a certain filesize (for this case a file size of 0 (zero) )

When I find this file with a filesize of zero I need to echo a...

Are any of you guys aware of any problems when trying to sort compressed fields? Why I uncompress the file I am trying to sort, I have no problem sorting but when I try to sort compressed fields it...

sort -k 1.1,1.17 $DC_abc/xyz_split.dat -o $DC_abc/xyz_split_sort.dat

Hey guys.

I am trying to Sort a pretty big file just in ascending order. Nothing as specific as size, name, numeric etc. The current code I have so far is:

sort -k 1.1,1.17 <filename> -o...

I was givin the task to, Glean the time only and write a small script that echo's before or after the time you specify.

Would this work:

ts=`date +%H%M`

echo ts

if ts > 0900
echo...

I think I got it,

ts=`date +%H%M`

Thanks again.

Hey guys.

How would I go about extracting the time from the system clock and inserting it into a variable?

Any thoughts?

Thanks again guys, I got it! :) :) :)

Hello all.

Like Ive stated before, I am new to world of Unix. I was given the tast to create a script that will concatenate 20 files into one file. I know that the cat command is to be used but...

Thanks ennstate for your help but I am going to go Shell Life's route!! I really appreciate your help though. :)

I did, and it indeed displayed the files within the date range I selected. Im just wondering what command I would use to delete those files?

How would I now go about deleting those selected files from that certain date range?

Meaning I would like to delete all files from 2006.

Thanks again

awk Thanks sooo much.

My mananger wants to know if their is any way feasible to search for a certain date, (i.e. March 22 2004)?

Or list all files between May 2, 2005 and June 3, 2006.
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I see that the help you guys have givin me so far are a start. Is their not a way you can search by the YEAR instead of "how many days" a file was lost modified or accessed? Let me know either way...

Ooopsie, Thank you! :)

Thanks for the head start. Please any other help will be greatly appreciated.

I was givin the task to clear up space in one of our directories. I was wondering if their was an ls command that I can search for a certain date (i.e. all files created in 2005) to display those...