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Does HPUX shell scripts run well on AIX5.2 ?. Or is there any known compatibity issues as far as shell scripts and syntax is concern.?

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vipas

Hi,
I am trying to add space after 3rd and 6th column for editing a file in special format. How should I achieve in VI?. So, is it possible to do in it in sed ?

thanks
vipa

All newly created Aix5 users are forced to change password first time when they log in. We know removing the ADMCHG flag in passwd file will not prompt the user for change password. But we are...

Jim,
I did not understand what you want to say in the last post. I really appreciate your suggestions/anwsers , and I got clue only from your previous post which mentioned about 'expr' . I tried...

Got it worked out.. I have to use sed.
Following is the final code

isp=`echo $var | sed 's/ //g'`
if [ ${#isp} -eq 0 ] ; then
echo "error"
fi


Thanks

Jim,
its the 2nd case-- Unknown number of spaces.
I tried
tmp=`echo $var | tr -d [:space:]`
if [ ${#tmp} -eq 0 ] ; then
echo "error "
fi

But if there is a value in 'var', it did not...

Hey gurus..
I am still struggling with unix..

whats is the equivalent of isspace function in Unix shell scripting.
I came across situation where a variable is a fixed lenth. And if it contains...

Instead of passing userid/password to ksh, read them from a file. Change access permission of file so that only user who is running ksh can read it.

-DM

Thanks Everybody for guiding me with different ideas. Yesterday, We found the process which was deleting the Directory. I was very much tempted to use strace, trace as suggested by Driver, but as...

Hi..
I am new to unix. And I am trying to learn more about admin part of it. We have come across a situation where one of the directory gets deleted everyday at 4:00 pm by some process. We are...