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Hi era,
Just wanted to thank you for the help on the Endless Loop problem I posted a week or so ago. Your solution:

"The echo $filename before the do statement causes the while to examine the...

Hi,
I'm pretty new to UNIX shell scripting and need some help. We have an Informatica interface that dumps any files that have errors into a directory. I need to check that directory periodically...

Thanks for the help. Sorry about the code tags Joey, I didn't know they existed, but I'll use them from now on.
Franklin, I used your method in a test script against a test directory that has all...

Hi,
I'm pretty new to UNIX shell scripting and need some help. We have an Informatica interface that dumps any files that have errors into a directory. I need to check that directory for any of up...

I had the 'then', just forgot to put it in the pseudo-code, but the semi-colon was the key. Thanks so much! I've wrestled with this for days.

Is the semi-colon always needed in an if statement? ...

Hi,
I'm new to UNIX and am trying to learn shell scripting in order to work on an interface that I inherited when a co-worker left. I need to be able to check to see whether a file exists to...

Thanks for all the help. It led me to realize what was wrong with the original script. Initially I was using it for one file only and when I added the loop I needed to take out the line that had...

Thanks, Rubin. (and Era). That produces a file like this:

test2file.csv.200804211629.csv

I think that will do for the time being. I would like to get rid of the .csv in the middle, but that...

Thanks, Rubin. That's almost what I need except that I have to be able to open these files in Excel, so the .csv extension needs to be on the end. When I run this, the date is on the end. Is there...

Thanks for the suggestions. I changed the copy statement to this, but I'm still getting the cp usage error.
cp -p $filefullname ${newfilename}/test1
I also tried this:
cp -p ${filefullname}...

Hi,
I have about enough UNIX knowledge to fill a thimble, but when a co-worker left I inherited an interface that runs Informatica on a UNIX box. I like UNIX, but my lack of skill is a real...