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Hi all,

Have used ftp to transfer files from remote host to localhost.
I was wondering how can I ftp into remote hosts.
for example from a unix box, connect to an external server and then ftp...

I could solve the problem now. Instead of using 'a-z' I used 'abcdefghijk..'

That's all.
I am using aix and shell is ksh

Hi experts,

I am getting a strange result when using the tr command.
I am using tr to change file names extensions created by split command ( from aa, ab, ac etc to 00, 01, 02 etc). If I run the...

dear Vino,

I am really curious to know the expression ${file%%.txt} .

Please can you explain it to me.
I was looking for a solution to extract the extrension of a file name. I wanted to split...

pfmurphy, just wondered how did you get the output you had posted with set -x? In my system (ksh on aix) the output is same as I posted in the beginning.

Thanks a lot for your explanation and the eval works fine. I had not used eval before and didn't know it is so vital. I haven't fully digested the solution but will spend some time on it.

Thanks...

Hi experts,

I have a simple shell script as follows.

#!/bin/ksh
FIND_STRING="\( -name 'testfile*.Z' -o -name 'DUMMY_*' \) "
find /tmp -type f $FIND_STRING -print

When I run this with...

Sumit, sorry to bother you. Eventhough the scripts works without any complaint, the find command really doesn't find the required files. If you get some time please can you have another look. I tried...

Sumit, thanks a million for your help. I spent so many hours trying to figure out. I can understand removing the backslash, but I am very curious to know how did you figure out the problem was with...

Thank you very much for your help sumit. Escaping ! didn't work for some reason.

I will post the full code and the test data for better clairity. The purpose of the script is to zip files which...

Hi experts,
I have a shell script (korn shell on aix) where I am giving find command with file options which are read from a configuration file. For some reason I am getting an error find: 0652-017....