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I have a tab delimited file with some fields potentially containing no data. In ksh 'read' though treats multiple tabs as a single delimiter. Is there any way to change that behavior so I could...

Well, a small test quickly showed me that a named pipe would not be an easy solution. As long as one process has the pipe open, another process gets the message "ksh: fifo: cannot open [Device or...

I have a ksh93 script I use that processes a file list in the order that they exist in the list. I would like to speed up processing of the list by having multiple processes handle it at once. I was...

Thank you for all your responses. I think the fraction of a second pauses will work for me. For some reason I thought the minimum time for sleep was 1s but 0.1s should be okay.

I already tried a loop and it didn't work. The bell rings once. In fact my loop was almost identical to yours. Googling around had me find a line like this:
cat `cygpath -W`/Media/ding.wav >...

I am writing a ksh script in cygwin though it could just as easily be bash and am trying to make an alert for myself where the bell rings many times like
print '\a'or
echo '^G'except I want it to...

Thanks.

I was hoping there would be something like I would do in shell:
echo ${var%?}or
echo ${var%:}or similar.

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I am outputting a line like this
print $2 "/" $4The last character though is a ":" and I want to remove it. Is there any neat way to remove it? Or am I forced to do something like this:
print $2...

Assuming the list only contains numbers (not the '12K' currently there which you haven't said how to interpret) you could do it in ksh93 like this:
set $(<b22)
s=0
for i; do ((s += $i)); done...

As a quick update to this problem. I ran my ksh93 script at home on CentOS and had the same puzzling results. I did a od -cx on the files after a quick look at the results, what stood out was the...

Firstly, thanks for the response. While I did mention I was using ksh I should have mentioned that I am using both ksh93 and cygwin. I am assuming there is something not right with this combination....

Hello, I am writing a script in ksh to output a data file that is pipe delimited (not my choice). In any case, it has me scratching my head since the output is not as expected.
exec 3<acc.txt #...

Thanks. I realize the result. I am trying to work out why. I know that $0 is being set to the last character because the field separator has been set to null and $0 is being set to the last field....

I have googled around a bit and could not find an answer to how this works:
echo $STRING | awk '$0=$NF' FS=

I know what each part is doing. The record is being set to equal the last field and...