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Thanks. nawk does it.
I looked at timex on nawk and command line. It is not really conclusive. Time varies wildly:
nawk
first time

real 0.58
user 0.19
sys 0.06...

Your script gives syntax error on Solaris 10.
I don't have time to look into it right now.

You are right. How big were your files? Only OS and system load would make difference. I want to try it on Solaris 10. In the case of large files, there would be a threshold at which awk could gain...

ripat, this is interesting. Which system are you using and which shell?

cat test2From example he shows, he needed only third file with first column that was occurring only once in both files.
If one needed full line entry from both files this will do:

for i in `cat...

Except syntax is simpler without awk. Mine was also one line of code and faster. You can test that with command "time". As you noticed I did not have to explain syntax to user.

awk is the least efficient program to use. If you look at awk binary code, it is half as big as ksh. Means you are loading this on top of shell you are using. On top of that it makes code hard to...

You don't need to use awk or nawk. It is like killing mosquito with a sledge hammer.

cat file1 file2 | cut -f1 -d \| | sort | uniq -u

This was interesting debate. The space is a powerful parser for all shells and has to be dealt with carefully.
This is why unix old-timers use _. Like in file_1 instead of "file 1". It saves you...

You may have misperception what OS is. Most of people never access OS, just use provided utilities which are not really part of OS. OS is just a kernel and basic, supporting libraries. One can create...

It is fair. They should do an OS from scratch. It should be autonomic with extensive concurrency and fault tolerance. Who needs another version of 30 year old technology?

This would violate security and defeat the advantage of zones.
You may look at this article that deals with some of your issues:
cr:zones [Cyber Renaissance]...

These are very simple scripts to automate zone creation. They are attached to an article explaining some zone features:
cr:zones [Cyber Renaissance]...

There is a problem with this construct. Theoretically this should work all the time, but it does not. When I use Solaris sh, in some releases this works and in some it does not. This is why I did...

This is how it should be done in this particular case. Mine just illustrates, for less experienced, the fact that you can chain several commands before that while.

Nice use of regular expressions.

That construct is very powerful, and permits also to rearrange order of strings in a file.
You could do:
....
do
echo $var3 $var2 $var1 >> newfile
done
....

Sorry. I was doing too many things at the time. I did not paste the correct line.
This is it:
cut -d \> -f4 filename | cut -d\< -f1

Command test [] expects values, not commands, try this:

if [ `grep $value redirects.virgin-atlantic.com.conf > dred1` && $? == 0] ; then

set `grep sdosanjh filename`
echo $1 $2 $3
You need to provide test for failure otherwise you will get some gibberish.
these are called positional parameters and there are 9 of them. To have more...

"cut" command maybe an alternative to awk way to split any file with fixed or variable lenghth fields and definable field separator.

There is overreliance on awk. There are cases in which files are very large (log files) and using awk can literally take minutes to process such files.
The most efficient way is to use regular...

Only comment is about passing variables to children processes. you can pass them as arguments on the command line or use:
export variable
the child process will pick it up.
You need to keep in...

It depends on system dependencies in your scripts. There are parts of Solaris 10 that changed from Solaris 8. Any scripts dealing with services for example. In terms of syntax sh and ksh should not...

Try this:

server_status=`some command | grep "Total error: 0"`

the symbol ` is the back quote. It is needed to redirect output of your command line to variable.