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Cheers, guys.

quirkasarus: Great minds, and all that: that's exactly what I ended up doing (and then scrapped it - see below).

binlib: You've cracked it! SYMTAB holds the variable names...

I'm an experienced awk user, but this one has me stumped. I have an awk script which is called from a UNIX command line as you'd expect:

myscript.awk -v foo=$1 -v bar=$2 filename

My...

You're right, as ever;-) Any suggestions on really making the p/w invisible?

This isn't 100% secure because anyone who runs the command ps -ef will see your user's password. To make the password invisible, use this syntax:

echo $password | sqlplus -s user@database <<EOF

A very late response, but here goes. There's a known bug in Solaris's implementation of uuencode; try typing this

unset LC_CTYPE

immediately before the uuencode command line and your error...

Hi, Raynon -

Two easy ways, asusming you're using a file:

1. awk -F',' '{print $1}' infile > outfile
2. cut -d',' -f1 infile > outfile

I've quoted the comma delimiter in both cases to...

Although Mark's is an elegant solution, there's a simpler way to do and still remain independent of filename length: use cut's field delimiter option:

f=NLL_NAM_XXXXX.XXXXXXX_1_1.txt
s=`echo $f |...