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I've been able to figure out a solution myself too. thanks for the help..

thank you soooo much!

thanks Ikon, but this creates an empty line at the beginning of the file. how can i achieve the same result withouth the beginning empty line?

hello,

i want to know how to initialize a file to an empty one in korn shell scripting? i'm using a file name and building it during a while loop using >>. The problem occurs when the file is...

well thanks to all for the help..

well thanks radoulov, but yes, your solution does depend on the pattern "student" or "class" .. however, the file doesn't have the actual words "student" and "class"!!! it's student names and class...

I'm sorry for offending anyone! i'm not trying to get easy help.. i'm really stuck!

okey dokey..

original file format:
:junk1
"student1"
:junk2
blah
blah
blah
:junk3
blah
blah
:junk4
"classa"
:junk1
"student2"
"student3"...

i don't have code that is working... the file contained much more data than above.. this is how i was able to sort it to extract only the relevant data, and now i need to create a separate record for...

Hello

i need help with following problem:

i need to update a file containing records in following format:

student1
classa
student2
classb
student3
student4
classc

i need to...

Thanks to everyone who helped! much appreciated..

thank you Annihilannic, that worked beautifully on the command line. Use the same thing inside of a script file?

thank you

hello,

i have tried to remove blank lines from a file using korn shell script file.. it doesn't seem to work!

i tried sed '/^\s*$/d' infile > outfile but that didn't work
i tried sed 's/ ...

thanks Joeyg...

i found that you can also change the delimiter to ( : ) instead of ( / ) on sed, and desired result happens..

sed "s:$oldvar:$newvar:g"

Hello,

i have another sed question.. I'm trying to do variable substition with sed and i'm running into a problem.


my var1 is a string constructed like this:
filename1 filerev1 filepath1...

thanks vgersh99...

i'm still having a problem with the script though. It appears to just copy the contents of file1 (the out-of-date file) unaltered. any suggestions as to why?

file1...

Thanks, but i can't use nawk for some reason. I"m running hpux 11.11

Hi,


I have two text files containing records in following format:

file1 format is:


name1 age1 nickname1 path1

name2 age2 nickname2 path2


file 1 example is:


abcd 13...