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Totally what I needed to know. Thanks a lot.

Hi, all.

I have a need to take a flat file FTP'd from Windows to Unix and convert it for loading into a MySQL database without manual intervention. However, some characters are "fancified" (e.g....

I've used "mailx -r return@address" before many times for automated scripts, but when I try to use it on FreeBSD, I get "mailx: illegal option -- r". Is there another version of mailx I should be...

The permissions for the executable are:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 26 Mar 18 2004 gzip -> /usr/opt/freeware/bin/gzip

And that link's permissions are:

-rwxr-xr-x 3 root system 66303...

I'm trying to sell the use of gzip instead of compress in our department. One issue I'm having (which is a showstopper) is that I lose the ownership when gzipping and gunzipping, though it's...

It seems our administrators had installed the version of the "sort" command not having the -M option. Does anyone have the source code for this routine?

I need to be able to sort on month...

Thanks, guys.

Perderabo, your code worked when I removed the \$ from the eval command. But it's pretty much what I was looking for.

#! /usr/bin/ksh
typeset -l var
for v_type in Commodity...

I have a script that I'm trying to shorten (below) by removing repetitive code.
if [[ -a ${abccontrols}/Commodity_NDM_${alt_db}_done ]]
then
commodity_ndm_done=Y
fi

if [[ -a...

Is it possible to create a file link with parameters? I'm consolidating several like scripts into 1, and have it parameter-driven. Problem is, the (now) separate scripts are called by Mainframe,...

Have a need to schedule programs that can run after other programs are completed. Here's the catch:

1) The list of programs will not always be the same (kind of a plug-n-play deal)
2) The...