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Is it possible to display alongside the filename, the entry within the Pattern.txt file it's has matched against ?

Perfect - that works a treat!

Folks

I've been struggling this with for far too liong now and need your help!

I've been happily using grep for a search of a directory, to list the files which contain a string:

find ....

Thanks for your reply folks!

This script is on a UNIX server, using ksh93.

It's a script which has been around for ages, not written by me (not that I'm trying to avoid blame!) and has...

Interesting, as I have amended to......

LINES=`wc -l $FILE3 | awk '{printf("%d\n",$1);}'`
......and still get the same error.

I have also tried......

LINES=`wc -l < "$FILE3"`

......and...

I have the following script to output a report of response times - but it is throwing the error:


./jobname[46]: -: 0403-053 Expression is not complete; more tokens expected.


Here is the...

Hi folks

I am issuing the following command:

grep "[\/:*?"<>|#+%&]" *

Looking for the characters \/:*?"<>|#+%& within all files in a directory, but the command fails being unhappy with pipe:...

Have tried with both " or ' around the *.bak*, but get the error message each time:

find . -name -type f '*.bak*' -exec tar -cvf MigrationBAKFiles.tar {} \;

find: 0652-009 There is a missing...

thanks bsddaemon, but does this move/copy the files into the tar ?

What's the best way to copy (and after I've confirmed it works ok, move) all files matching *.bak* (within an entire directory structure) into a single tar file?

This is what I want to achieve,...

I've got a file, where I want to grab two fields from it. The file isn't fixed format, so all I know is that the two fields are after a certain number of delimiters within the record.

File e.g....

I am currently using the following query to print the lines AFTER a pattern:

awk '/Statement Execution Time/{c=10}c&&c--'

Can this be adapted to print the lines after a pattern, up to a second...

Actually, I tried the following:-

awk 'c&&c--;/query/{c=2}' inputfilename

and it worked fine for me!

I am trying to create a script to search for a string within a file, and if found, return the next two lines.

Example file:-

msj
mh
query
return this 1
return this 2
mjk
mhj
query...

Nice one folks. I have added the missing backticks (didn't realise these were also required, rather than the double quotes replacing them). I had indeed cut/pasted into this thread incorrectly...

Have to admit to not following what you've coded above, so have stuck to the original, trying to "properly double-quote the backticks" - as follows.

for files in $icofile
do
if [...

I've coded as follows, as I don't know the name of my file (only the prefix), and also there may be mulitple files. I need to check all the files for '70' before I continue processing. I get the...

Folks

How best to read the last line of a file, to check for a particular value?

This is the last line of my file......

00000870000002000008 0000000020000

......I need to check that this...

Running the following shell script,

#!/usr/bin/ksh
set -x
swdofile=/opt/SWDO_IN1V01P001_1.csv
USER='myusername'
PASSWD='mypassword'
HOST='myhostname'
ftp -n $HOST << SCRIPT
quote USER $USER...