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Hi,

I have a while read loop that reads files in a directory and process. The files have spaces in between, so I have the IFS=\n to to read the whole line as one file name.

The read works fine...

That worked. Thanks.

zazzybob's script works fine now.

Ygor's script still have an issue. It creates seperate output files now but it puts lines starting with DOC & END also in the output files. I just need the data...

Thanks zazzybob and Ygor for your help. But I see some problem with each of your scripts.

zazzybob's script - First of all I have a fixed length data file that I need to split. The script creates...

I am trying to read a file and split the file into multiple files. I need to create new files with different set of lines from the original file. ie, the first output file may contain 10 lines and...

I just want to see(by a a single commad) if there is any file starting with those letters present in that directory so that I can do some processing on those files. test -f /home/pv/T20* command...

Hi,

I was trying to test the presence of some files on Red hat Linux enterprise version 2.4.9 using the following command

test -f /home/pv/T20*

I am getting the error, too many parameters,...

Yogr, forget about my previous post. I found out the problem. I didn't mention the field delimiter, I should have given the command like this,

$ awk -F"," -v date=$(date +%m/%d/%y) -f florida.awk...

Take a look at this. This is my awk command file, florida.awk

$1 == 1 {
print $0, date
}
$1 != 1 {
print $0
}

and this is how I run the command

$ awk -v date=$(date...

Thank you so much for the reply.

Yogr, I tried the code from the command prompt and it worked, but I think you could have your scripts in a file and specify -f option in the awk command to run...

I have 2 questions.
1. Using awk how do I specify two different actions based on the value of the first field on every record in a file.
2. How do I ask awk to output the current date as the last...

I have a situation where I want the user to enter only numbers in response to a READ command. I have some validation to restrict the number to be between 1 and 12, but if the user type in some...