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Hello,

Neither ‘Grep -r' nor ‘grep -R' is working in my environment. (Searching for a text pattern in the files)

Any suggestions... Using SunOS 5.9

Thanks,
Trinanjan.

Hi,

Could you please suggest a tool that connects like WINSCP/Putty and allows me to search a remote Unix directory for a certain text pattern (grep) ?

Regards,
Bhanja.

But what if I don't want to hardcode the input filename? I want to pass the input filename dynamically while running the script. :)

Unfortunately, this one is not working.

Just keeps running without returning the prompt.

The previous awk worked like a charm.

How do I fix this one?

Cool! :b:

awk worked. :cool:

Couple of questions more.

What do I do if I do not want to hardcode the input_file_name in my shell script and pass it as a parameter from the prompt instead...

Ok... here is a sample.

The first field is Date in YYYYMMDD.

As you can see, there are 3 dates viz. 20100313, 20100306 and 20100227.

The length of the Date field is 8 bytes.

I want my...

Hi,

I have a fixed width text file without any header row. One of the columns contains a date in YYYYMMDD format.

If the original file contains 3 dates, I want my shell script to split the...