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Apologies for the delayed response. Didn't realize wisecracker responded.

Yes wisecracker, when I first posted my query, all the files were in the current directory. The 3 steps process of first...

Thank you Don for explaining in so much detail. Please see below, getting same error even after removing the spaces between "<"/">" and following command.


$ ksh --v
version sh (AT&T...

It displayed syntax error if I include brackets "()".


comm -3 < (sort file1) < (sort file3) > file3
-ksh: syntax error: `(' unexpected

comm -3 < (sort file1) < (sort file3) > (file3)
-ksh:...

Hi All,
I have 2 pipe delimited files viz., file_old and file_new. I'm trying to compare these 2 files, and extract all the different rows between them into a new_file.

comm -3 < sort file_old <...

Yes it worked!

In the shell script, when I pressed Enter key, it didn't display ">" symbol but started the next characters from new line....

$cat Test.ksh
#!/bin/ksh

sed 's/'"$(printf...

Thanks to all that tried to help me.

I didn't find /usr/bin/dos2unix on our UNIX host.

xbin - the cmd didn't work.

I tried the below cmd...seems working..

$ sed 's/'"$(printf...

abc.txt: ascii text

Sorry Makarand but I need to do this as part of the shell script.

I also tried the below.

sed 's/'"$(printf '\015')"'//g' abc.txt > xyz.txt

It removed the ^M character but it is not...

Makarand, we don't have this utility. Any other way to replace he ^M characters in shell script?

Hi All,
We are getting an external file in abc.csv format. When opened in excel spread sheet, it is opening alright. But when opened in notepad, I see the contents in a single line.
Ftp'd the file...

As vgersh99 suggested, placing double quotes around the variable in the if clause removed the errors.

Thank you all.

Don - That is very valuable advise. Thanks!

Actually, when I implement the above logic in my original script (the one I gave above is sample), it is giving me the right output but also throwing...

Thanks so much, it worked.

I though calling the CmnFuncs.ksh script should do the trick, didn't know that I need to call the function seperately.

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I've 2 shell scripts viz., CmnFuncs.ksh and myScript.ksh.
1st script contains all common functions and its code is as below:

$vi CmnFuncs.ksh
#!/bin/ksh
RunDate()
{
....
....
export...

Thanks Akshay, it did worked but felt it is not optimized. It's not a problem I have at hand, but what if we have say 100+ columns in the file1 and we have 50+ numeric ones? It is not feasible to...

Thanks so much, the solutions worked good.

One thing is if I want to remove the commas from 2 or more columns, how can I change the cmd? Like, here, I want to remove the commas from 2nd and 3rd...

Hi - I have a file "file1" of below format. Its a comma seperated file. Note that each string is enclosed in double quotes.
"abc","-0.15","10,000.00","IJK"
"xyz","1,000.01","1,000,000.50","OPR"
...