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I need help on how I can accomplish my task. I hope someone can help me since I've researching and trying to accomplish this for hours now. Basically, I need to comment-out (or insert a # sign in the...

Can someone help me on this. I have a file that has a long line just like below. The long line keeps on being truncated to the next line (new line + space) for some reason. Basically, I just need to...

This might be a dummy question, but is there a command in UNIX that compare two strings character-by-character and display the difference?

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Does anyone know how I can simulate a cron job execution via UNIX scripting or is there a command/tool that simulate this?

I have a file I called "appSchedule.txt", it contains below lines:

...

Can someone help me? I been figuring out how I can search and extract a complicated search string from a file. The whole string is delimited by a period. And the file where I'm searching is composed...

OMG! Both works! I'm so happy! Hahaha! Thanks frans and aigles!!!!

Does anyone know a way I can fix my file below where it has lines that are cut?

Just like the (notice the space before ms,c=PH)..

dn: cn=english,ou=Messaging,ou=lang,o=subject,t=j
ms,c=PH

...

What about when exiting from a loop and a case? such like...

case $CASE in
1)

2)
while ps $PID
do
if [ $? -eq 0 ];then
echo "exit from this while loop and exit from...

Thanks Franklin52 but this is the same code I use. My problem really is I also need to extract those lines that contains "co-worker" in the 2nd column not just the word "worker"

Can anyone help me how I will extract all lines in a file where the word "worker" or "co-worker" in 2nd column exist. There are also word in 2nd column like "workers" or "worker2" but I don't want to...

Anyone know how I will use awk's variable in a regular expression?

This line of code of mine is working, the value PREMS should be a variable:

awk '$1 ~ /PREMS/ { if(length(appldata)+2 >=...

Thanks a bunch! The code from pmm works but the one from Christoph Spohr did not. Im not sure why. Anyways, thanks again!

Sorry. I forgot to mentioned that I need to put each character in an array or variable, the reason I use the split function of awk.

Try also

cut -d, -f1 abc.txt

Does anyone know how will I make awk's split work with empty or null separator/delimiter?

echo ABCD | awk '{ split($0,arr,""); print arr[1]; }'

I need output like:
A
B
C
D

I am under...

It's returning an error to me.

/tmp/myscript[2]: syntax error at line 3 : `(' unexpected

The line 3 here is the ManipulateID() {

#!/bin/ksh

ManipulateID() {
some codes here
}

awk...

I have a file with the record of person:

cat > $TMP/record.txt
John Torres M Single 102353 Address
Mark Santos M Maried 103001 Address
Carla Maria F Maried 125653 Address

#!/bin/ksh...

I put the "PS1=..." command in my .profile but it didn't work when I look at the .sh_history

PS1='$(printf "%(%D %T )T" | read -s)$ '
export PS1

I put the "PS1=..." command in my .profile but it didn't work when I look at the .sh_history

PS1=....
export

Hello Everyone:

Does anyone know how I will setup my account to put timestamp in my .sh_history? I do not hold the root account. I am using AIX 5 and ksh shell. I tried every solution I can find...

Great! Cool. Why did I not think of using read inside the function?:D Hehehe. Thanks for the reply:b:

Hi,

Is it possible that the output of a command is piped into a unix function? Just like in below:

#!/bin/ksh
concat(){
echo Orbix
}
echo "Hello there" | concat




How to manipulate...

Hi,

I have the following codes below that aims to delete every words between two pattern word. Say I have the files


To delete every word between WISH_LIST=" and " I used the below codes (but...

Hi,

I need idea about this, say I have this line:

05 21 * * 0,6 /user/clean.desktop.sh > /tmp/desktop_rpt 2>&1

I would need to grep the word desktop and display the /user/clean.desktop.sh...

printf and echo -n didn't work. I tried it and the outcome is just the same as the above. The console ask the user for input right after the question (which is what I need) but the choices are...