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'/' is a restricted character. You can not use it in a directory name.

Script around it and use something like '=s' for slash it that's unique in your situation. Let your script translate it back...

Perhaps something like this?

{ echo "Number of files in the directory = `find . -maxdepth 1 -type f|wc -l`";find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -printf "%f\n"|cat -n ;} >../pathtodir/count.txt

As an alternative, with mkdir -p stp/wsUAL you create both directories at once. Is that an option?

@alister: My bad! Greedyness has indeed nothing to do with this problem. Thanks for putting that right.

Regexes are greedy, so only on the last line matches the class of no double quotes and no newlines.
Try options -P or -z of grep to match across newlines.

B.t.w.: this is an area were the regex...

Yeah, I had the same problem just days ago...

Ftp uses ASCII-transfer mode by default. A zipped tar is binary.
Issue the command 'binary' to tell ftp to treat your upload as such.

The man page advises to use a count and a deadline to check wether a host is alive.

Something like this will be more reliable:
$ ping -c 10 -w 10 myhost >/dev/null && echo "myhost is alive"...

$ echo $OUTPUT|awk -F, '{sub(/.*\//,"",$8);print $1"*****"$6"*****"$8}'
name_of_system*****ip_address*****NEED

When using single quotes, the shell takes your * as a literal value.

So, don't use single quotes. (In this case.)

Next, use cat to conCATenate files:

cat...

A while ago I wrote a Perl-script to do this. It also puts all pictures in a random order.

Perhaps one could add a routine to update ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/background/%gconf to have it point to...

I must agree: your question is rather vague.

However, is this what you're looking for?

$ awk '/DEF/{DEF=NR} /EFG/{EFG=NR} END{print "Last DEF is on line "DEF"\nLast EFG is on line "EFG}'...

The options to your sendmail command are wrong!

Send some emails to yourself using cat <file>|sendmail <options> until you understand how it works.

Do you even have the command 'sendmail' on...

I'm new on this forum (my second day!), but this was already the second time I gave a solution to a problem Ahamed already solved. I thought it was time to point out I was not competing or anything....

You do a read a in your shell. Then you use $a in awk, but that won't work because awk knows nothing about shell variables.

When you invoke awk you can however pass variables to it:

awk -v a=$a...

Why not split the whole file in one go? With this line of awk, you split the whole file into files with filenames like 00000000-00001000.exp for the record range below 1000, 00001000-00002000.exp for...

To be honest, I've hardly ever worked with bc before. I just took a glimpse at the man page and came up with this idea. Since we are mixing strings and expressions, the print command seemed the way...

If you want (slash need) to stick to sed and bc, try this:

sed 's/^\(.*:\)\([0-9]*\),*\([0-9]*\):\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\)/print \"\1\2,\3:\4,\5:\",\4\.\5-\2\.\3,\"\n\"/' beurs.txt|bc|sed...