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I voted for SuSe coz I am using it now. :)

Did you check my earlier post??


The script I gave works fine for the type of file mentioned by you.
However, there's a catch in that script. If there's an empty line in the input file, a file...

check this out


#!/bin/sh

while read myline
do
var=`echo ${myline} | cut -d'|' -f 1`;
echo ${myline} >> ${var}.txt;
done < ./input.txt


cheers
maverix

good that you found it useful!!!

check out the man pages for tail, awk and grep to understand how it works.
In particular, check the switches I've used for each command.

Don't think I am being...

Try this

tail +`grep -in "Started" <logFile> | tail -1 | awk -F: '{print $1}'` <logFile>

cheers
maverix

Hi All,

Thank you for your inputs.

As suggested by porter, I think I'll have to settle with file locking mechanisms as I am using a simple file.

Let me explore other IPC facilities (yet to...

Hi Jim and Neo,

Thank you for your replies...

I am using RHEL 4.
I have used lockf() and flock() system calls and it seems to work fine.

However, I want to use semaphores to get the same...

Hi All,

I am going through the semaphore concept and have a doubt regarding the same and hope to get a resolution here.

I have a file which has a number of records.
I want to write an...

Hi porter,

Thank you for your inputs.

It was a simple mistake from my side.
I had copied the functions and forgot to change the parameter in the open system call from O_RDONLY to O_RDWR.
...

Hi,

I have a database (a simple .dat file) which has multiple records (structure datatype) in it.
I would like to know if we can use write() system call to update/modify intermediate records in...

Hello Shell Life and aigles,

Thanks to both of you for your time.

mPrtList="$1 $2 $3"
egrep -i "$SEARCH_STR" ./datafile.dat | awk -F: "{ print $mPrtList }"

I had tried this earlier but this...

Hi,

I want to print certain fields from my data file depending on certain conditions. Somebody pls let me know how to send it to awk.

The command below is the one which I want to use in a shell...