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Thanks...
I am using Sun OS 4.8

Thanks
Ven

But yes...
I tried that as a first thing... :cool:
but it says..
"No manual entry for emacs."
Since emacs is an editor..does the manuals suppose to have help on emacs??

Thanks
ven

Any one has a good documentation on How To Use EMACs editor??

Thanks
Ven :eek:

Hi All,
I am setting bash as my working shell in my .profile file.
So I have written a line :
bash
as the list line in my .profile
I want to use alias as follows:
alias me='who am i'
When i...

I think awk is not necessasary for this.

try this logic:
suppose Ur file is in /export/home/mydir/myfile1

cat /export/home/mydir/myfile1 | while read LINE
do
field1=`echo $LINE | cut...

Use the du command
Then use the cut command with the proper delimiter.
Another way is to use awk with ls -l
Do an ls -l
Put it in a file
Then use awk..
The problm is ls -l returns list of files...

Hi All,
:confused:
can anyone throw some light on variable handling in UNIX script??
I want to know about the local variables we declare inside the UNIX script.


e.g.
i=10
OR

cat file1 |...

Hi Vino,
I have tried that but even that is not working.
There are no multiple occurences of the string and each grep statement will return only one line.
One thing that amzes me about these...

Hi All,
I want to a mathematical callculations as follow:

I have a file FILE1
I want to do following assignment

COUNTER1=`grep -n $string1 FILE1 | cut -d : -f1`
This will give me number of...

Hi All,
I want to read a file in UNIX line by line.

Can u suggest me any command for this?

I am trying to figure out the usage of awk.
The man pages are a bit confusing .
Can some one give me a link or something where the usage of awk is elaborate and simplified?

A document will be...

Hi all,
In my shell script, I am reading some files, processing them, and writing the out-put in the log files. The out put contains number of rows in the file etc.
I want to fetch the input files...

I am relatively new to UNIX.
I am having a flat file with around 20,000 lines in it.
Basically, it is a dump of a database table with tab character as a delimeter.
I want to read the file row by...

Here is the trick I think (Moderators please advise).

Use diff.
Suppose u r having file1 and file2. file2 is new and u want to search for occurence of LOTUS and red in new lines added in file2....

Hi All,
I am relatively new to UNIX.
I know some basic commands.
I am learning to write shell scripts.
My first aim is to connect to a Data Base via shell script.
Any ideas on this?
Any links,...