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That's good to know.

As for upgrading, I work for a major corporation with dozens of Unix servers all over the country all run by different people, different expense codes, different versions of...

The mv command doesn't work either...no error or warning...simply does nothing.

I modified my script to copy and name change the file to a local working folder, then sftp and that works...just...

I have a .ksh script that creates an sftp batch file and runs it through sftp. It works except for one thing. If I try to "put" to a different name, it doesn't use the specified remote name...it...

That was exactly it...one of my two files had the ^M characters...I removed them and it works perfectly. Sometimes it's the simple things that go overlooked!

I have a weird issue going on with the join command...
I have two files I am trying to join...here is a line from each file with the important parts marked in red:

file1:...

That is exactly what I needed! Thanks! I am so new to awk that I never would have been able to figure this out.

edit by bakunin: good! I changed the threads title to "Solved".

How would I modify this to place both the name of the file and the matched line on the same line in the output? perhaps separated by a colon or something?






My system does not have the -m...

That works perfectly! Is there a way to make it display the file name as well as the first matched line?

I have a need to grep a large number of files, but only display the first result from each file. I have tried to use grep, but am not limited to it. I can use perl and awk as well. Please help!

~>uname -a
SunOS crdap400 5.10 Generic_147440-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-15000


and I don't have Samba, and probably wouldn't be allowed to install it...this is one of those "assigned by...

I get:

nfs mount: insufficient privileges


I also don't have the -t option in my version of mount.

Unfortunately, I don't administer either of these servers and as a single gear in the...

I have googled and searched and can't come up with anything that works for me, so I'll ask the experts on here...

I have a ksh script on UNIX, and a file on a Windows network drive. I need the...

Sorry for the late replies...I've been trying to figure this out as much as possible myself and I'm just plain stuck...


This gives me
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line...

This is EXACTLY what I wanted...You are an absolute saint!

Will try the link you posted, bipinajith. Was hoping for an awk or perl one-liner, but sometimes we just don't get what we want, right? :D


As for the other two replies, as stated in the...

Ok...this is really bumming me out because it seems like it should be simple, but for some reason, I just can't get it...I've also googled and searched these forums, and haven't found exactly what...

Here is an example of a file...

foo1,good
foo1,good
foo2,error
foo2,good

Note that both rows for foo1 have good in the 2nd field, but one of the foo2 rows has error...

I need something...