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Hi RudiC,
During the UT phase, I have a manual run on the script. Once success, I will be passing parameters obtained from another script to call this one. I am going to use the case statement in...

Got that. Also while I was trying the read command it works well for almost all characters including ?. But it didn't work for *. It showed the list of files in the current directory. Can you please...

Thankyou Scrutinize. It worked, I have one question here. I am going to call this script from a cron. As of now in my cron, I have been usingsh /..... to execute it. So this time should I used bash...

Hi All,

Using bash.
I am trying to accept one char input for my code.
The user is suppose to enter d(disburse) or g(garner).

I am stuck with read command. It works for me on the command...

I used sh -x as advised. Took sometime but was able to debug successfully.

Thanks Alister. Btw, your comment about the lack of double quotes really helped. It helped me fixed quite many issues...

Hi Wisecracker, I must say that was a wonderful catch.


$ vi prog11.sh
"prog11.sh" 23 lines, 639 characters
echo "Enter file name"
read FILENAME=$1
linecount=0
charcount=0
n=0...

Hi Alister,

Thank you for the quick reply. I tried as you suggested but still its showing me the same error


$ vi prog11.sh
"prog11.sh" 22 lines, 646 characters
echo "Enter file name"
read...

Hi All,

I am writing a simple script to read a file and display the lines with char count between 20 and 25. I am stuck with the if condition here. Tried a lot but still getting an error on the if...

Hi,

I am trying to write a script to cleanup files in a log directory ..


cd log
find Datk*[0-9]* -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \; 2> /dev/null



Have used the above to clean up files in log...

That works !!
El perfecto !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I spent almost half hr trying to fix this !!!!!!!!!!!!!

muchas gracias Frank:)

Hi,
shell is /bin/ksh

I am trying to do the following in my code.. but its showing me an error



if [[ [[ "$ida" == "_W_" || "$ida" == "_SA" ]] && [[ "$chk_dy" == "Sun" || "$chk_dy" == "Sat"...

Thank you Very much Curleb, for that detailed explanation and info. I should be going with tail. That will solve my purpose..
Also thank you Reebot and Methyl for your answers ..

Many Thanks &...

Thank you Reebot !

But any faster operation then tail that can help out here ???

I have large file with around 100k+ lines. I wanted to retain only the last 100 lines in that file. One way i thought was using

tail -1000 filename > filename1
mv filename1 filename


But...

Thank you , I did the following:

for file in *_X7_*
do
awk '{print $0"|||||||"}' $file> output
mv output $file
done


for file in *_X3_*
do
awk '{print $0"|||||||"}' $file>...

Hi,

I have a directory with around 100k files and files with varying sizes(10GB files to as low as 5KB). All the files are having pipe dilimited records.

I need to append 7 pipes to the end of...

That works perfectly... :) thanks a lot....

First the shell is ksh

Now please let me tell you why I need to do this....
This is what is happening......
dev$ wc -l abc_
236 abc_
dev$ head...

Hi experts,
This is what Im doing...

file_cnt=`cat abc_ | wc -l`
head -$file_cnt abc > abc_2

if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
error "failed on rename abc_ > abc_2"
exit 1
fi


try_run...