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Do the format of 1st to 9th of month and Jan to Sep become one digit? Otherwise Google's script may need a improvement.

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> filename

Hi jayakhanna,

Do you know the first variable 'answer' not equal to the second 'answer' in 'case'? Try to think your script problem,

echo " a.read a file"
.
.
while [ true ]
do
echo...

What is the meaning of in line 5
"; do ??

You may use 'select' to do the same thing more convenience.

PS3="Enter your choice > "
select answer in "read a file" "create a file" "add on...

How to guess your whole script?

Pls. post your script to here.

I tried my posted before and found a error. It is no output to log from the grep although it can't get any pattern. So the solution is:

You can do it more simply

#!/bin/sh

for a in `cat...

About the [[ or [, because I always write korn shell rather than bourne shell. ;)

Yes, -s is one of option of 'if'. You can type man if or man sh to know more.

I think the error.log may...

oh, then you should take the email part out of the loop.

#!/bin/sh

for a in `cat ipaddresses`
do
#write error to log for checking
/usr/sbin/ping $a|grep -ic alive 2> error.log
done

#the...

No tested, try it.

#!/bin/sh

for a in `cat ipaddresses`
do
if /usr/sbin/ping $a|grep -ic alive
then
/usr/sbin/ping $a|grep -ic alive
else
mail jshwood <<!!!
message
!!!
fi
done

ksh -x yourscript

If you want to match the field only that contains digits only, then:

sed 's/^0[0-9]\{5\} /****** /' file1 > file2

It matchs the field starting with 0 and 5 digits follow it. I added one more...

Try to use command 'file' to view the description of the file.

file test.Z
test.Z: compressed data block compressed 16 bits

file test1.gz
test1.gz: gzip compressed data - deflate...

try to use lp command with -o nobanner.

Ygor really a expert in awk!! I viewed his posts and I still need to learn from him/her.

I know that is one of method to set variable in awk.

And I know 3 methods to do that, maybe more than 3...

the following will assign Y to variable rc if it is null.

${rc:=Y}

add a option -r in your sort command

you can type command 'set' to view all command prompts.

PS1 to PS4

PS1 is default shell prompt

PS2 is secondary prompt string. If you type command like ls -l "file* and then press enter. ...

To limit the history file in last 100 commands. Put the follows in your profile.
export HISTSIZE=100

e.g
let say if you want to print your logname after the result. Use -v for the variable.
ls -l | awk -v abc=$LOGNAME '{print $9,abc}'

abc mylogname
abc1 mylogname
testfile mylogname

how about you type as follows:

open "Desktop/Pictures/Joe Average.jpg"

Don't know has GUI interface or not. But it is not difficult to work by command line.

you have a file according to your requirement:

#my english is not good. Just think that every 4 sunday is...

sorry, a typo found

s/\(^.*\~\) *$/\1 / <--- one space behind \1

ok, got your meaning now.

try it
s/\(^.*\~\) *$/\1/

I think that you are trying to edit the file in vi, right? Actually I don't know what result you want.

if you want the following result.
9DH21AQAE~
then
:s/\~[^~]*.*$/\~/

9DH21AQAE~56081~...