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Thanks Sea,

I've used .scr short for script regardless of the shell. Non programming people run these things sometimes and I've tried to simplify it for them. I'm not actually writing to root, I...

Sample Data
#cat /mylist.txt
/raid/job/123
/raid/job/456
/raid/job/789
#

Script
#cat /myfind.scr
#!/bin/bash

touch /nojob.txt
touch /job.txt
unset dirfolder
for dirfolder in `/bin/cat...

Please delete this then. I'll continue looking elsewhere.

Thanks

I have fileA:
Joey.smith /my/path/to/here here
bill@smith /my/path/to/there there
John@smith /my/path/to/anywhere anywhereI have fileB:
bill@smithI want to end with fileC:
Joey.smith...

I have:

2012/01_January/Kite[TAB HERE]/foldername/otherfoldername/placeholder[TAB HERE]Blue

I want to end up with:

/foldername/otherfoldername/2012/01_January/Kite/Blue

Basically take...

I have:
/path/to/my/fixdir/MD1234567.tar

I want to have:
/path/to/my/fixdir/MD/1234567.tar

fixdir never changes but MD does and how many numerical digits does. I want something like:...

Please forgive this newbie question. I have a need to create a script that asks a user for information. Something like:

What is the name: $NAME_TYPED_HERE

Is $NAME_TYPED_HERE Correct ? YES (NO...

I have a script that start out with this:
#!/sbin/sh
Several things run.

However I cannot get:
shopt -s nullglob
to run in Bourne. I get:
shopt: not found

So within the main script (after...

Hello,

I have this path and file:
/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/THIS_SPOT/fle.txt

I want to end up with:
/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/THIS_SPOT/fle.txt[tab]THIS_SPOT

Take...

Sending email produces malformed address error. The domain name appears as the active directory name which is not a valid Internet domain thus the malfomred address error.

I have:
divert(0)dnl...

I have a Solaris 10 box that has 2 Ethernet connections. One is 172.21.0.150, this is on the main internal LAN. The other is 172.16.0.50 this is the DMZ. I have Apache 2.0.59, I do not care which it...

Using Solaris 10 and sh.

I have three files.
mydirs.txt
/dir1/dir2/dir3
/dir4/dir5/dir6

mydirshave.txt
1
2

mydirsshouldhave.txt
2
2

For each directory listed in mydirs.txt I should...

Wow, you all are amazing. Thanks!

Is it possible to do this with sed?

Go from this:
958211 XXYYXXYYXX file1 file2 file3
958897 XXYYXXYYXX file1 file2

To this:
file1 file2 file3 XXYYXXYYXX 958211
file1 file2 XXYYXXYYXX...

Yes

Awk did:
# /usr/bin/awk '{ gsub ("XXZZXXZZXX ", "\n") }1' /myfile
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: illegal statement near line 1
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line...

Change that, I am still having issues. I added a newline in vi when I was testing. The source file has no newline and it seems sed will not even read it. My output from previous post is empty with...

I tried that earlier I get:
# /usr/bin/sed 's/XXZZXXZZXX /
> /g' /myfile
sed: command garbled: s/XXZZXXZZXX /
#

I am unclear what you meant by the backslash in front, but I just tried some...

Hey gang,

I have:
XXZZXXZZXX 123 asdaffggh dfghyrgr ertyhdhh XXZZXXZZXX 234 sdg XXZZXXZZXX 456 gfg fggfd

That is all on one line. Very simply put I want to do is something like:
sed...

Thanks for your help! Is that something I put into a script or put into a C program that I can call from the script. Forgive my newbie question.

It is ok if a subdirectory contains multiple pdf files. It only needs to have at least one. If I have NO subdirectory OR any subdirectory withOUT a pdf, that should arrive at the same Z error.

I want to look into a folder to see if there are any folders within it. If there are, I need to check inside each folder to see if it contains a .pdf file

So

If /myserver/myfolder/
contains a...