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I am trying to invoke a service remotely (via ssh)...I tried the nohup option into the script. Instead of hanging, I need a 'keystroke' to initiate back a command prompt. Is there a way to invoke a...

Hi all,

I am trying to exit a shell script (c shell) while invoking a job (service) that must run in the background:
......

/mydir/runservice &

exit
......

There are downstream jobs and...

Thanks for the tips,

I am now trying to capture the elapsed time into a variable in (C Shell). I would like to 'echo' the start time, end time and time elapsed - along with other variables and...

How would I put this in a shell script?

Should I set as variable at the beginnning of the script and call at the end? Or should I call it at the end of the script?

Can you explain the...

Hi,

I am trying to capture runtime stats of a shell script (c shell). Are there system variables to call? Or should I create a date variable at the start of the script and at the end of the...

I am trying to execute a copy command via shell script. However, on occassion, 2 or more files need to copied. How do I code for the multiple arguments? Does it matter how the files are delimited?...

Thanks for the advice - job works!

I tried those options, but when I use the [ -f $filename ] - I get a 'Missing ]' error and when I use the

if (test -f $filename) - I get a 'if Syntax error'.

I use the $status method...but it...

Hi,

I am trying to verify that a file exists within an alternate directory. If the file exists, it will execute a copy command...if it does not, it should exit the script.

I tried the <test>...

I am getting

awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: illegal statement near line 1

"Bob"~"2001"~1234
"Nancy"~"2008"~456
"Peter"~"2002"~5433
"Jack"~"2007"~3241
"Rose"~"2002"~9986

Here is a sample. I'd like to get a Max Year value from the second column (basically return...

I am trying to retrieve that max 'year' in a text file that is delimited by tilde (~). It is the second column and the values may be in Char format (double quoted) and have duplicate values.
...

Hi Franklin52,

I tried the code again, and the same result occurs.

Is there a way to add a space when we combine the rows?

1234,"abcd",4569,"My Name is JackSmith","JS123","1900-01-01"...

Hi Franklin52,

I tried the code you supplied - it had an error:

awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: illegal statement near line 1

I also tried it with 'gawk' and it modified some...

Due to sensitive data, the following is a sample of 4 lines of data (in reality, the file contains 18 fields with the 11th field being problematic - since it is a Varchar 256 free-from field). All...

There are actually 2 issues
1. A fixed with record with multiple \n instances with \n as its record delimiter
2. A comma delimited file with \n embedded in the record with \n as its record...

As an alternative solution, I am now trying to remove \n from a record that is comma delimited (instead of fixed width) and NOT remove the record delimiter (\n.)

Expected result:
"ABCD",1234,"My...

I am using a solution that was provided by a member:

awk '{s=$0;if(length(s) < 700){getline; s=s " " $0}printf("%s\n",s)}'

This scans through a file and removes '\n' within a record but not...

I have created a script to call 2-3 shell scripts to be execute in succession, however, it seems that after the first shell script completes, the entire script exits out.

Example:
1stJob.sh...

I am trying to use the following code:

awk '{s=$0;if(length(s) < 750){getline; s=s " " $0}printf("%s\n",s)}' filename

but an error shows that 'awk' is too long. Is there a limit to the awk...

Thanks - that is what I was looking for.

I actually have another file that has the same problem, however, its fixed width is around 750 Char - I applied the code, but an error shows that awk was...

Hi Devaraj,

I stumbled onto another 'error', since it is a fixed length records (and when I removed the (\n) it also truncated an extra 'space' - how can I run the same awk code but instead pad...

Thanks! your code works like a charm! (with obvious change to fix width length).

Much appreciated!!!

I've give you an example, since data is senstive. It is a fixed width file downloaded from Mainframe via FTP. This is the what the file would look like (in Unix Env).

Col1 Char5
Col2 Char5...

The record delimiter is also a line feed (\n)

Thanks