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Did a work around by creating a flag file and then checking for its existence in the main script to exit completely.

But is there any way I can totally come out of the main script.
This exit is only coming out of the function and the loop in which the main shell script was calling the function.

I need to stop...

Thanks a lot ranj!! It worked.

Hi,

I have a shell script in which I am calling a function from a different shell script. This functions executes the SQL and the results are stored in a log file.

If the result of the SQL is...

It can be done by the following command. Is there much simpler and faster?

cat test | sed -e "s/[ ]*^[ ]*/^/g" | sed -e "s/\.^/^/g" > test.new

Thanks

Hi Vino,

Can you also please help me in eliminating the dot as well using ur simpler sed command.

From

0EI0LAFV^0EI0L46V^.^2^7^.^40000^J^.^.^.^

To

0EI0LAFV^0EI0L46V^^2^7^^40000^J^^^
...

My mistake...

Thanks a lot Vino...

Thanks for the reply Vino...

But that sed command is not able to produce the ouput.

I was able to come over this problem by using the following sed command

sed -e 's/ *$/ /g' instead of sed -e 's/ *$//g'

But I don't understand the need of space between the forward slashes.
...

Hi,

I have a test file as follows:

1G102119 ^ AA1179291 ^ 06oct2006 09:50:35^ 73.4^ 2^ 13^ 0^ 1493
1G102119 ^ AA1179291 ^ 06oct2006 09:49:45^ 73.4^ 2^ 13^ 0^ ...

Hi All,

I want to ftp a file from Windows 2000 to Unix. The file is present in a remote server which has been mapped to one of my drives. I am not able to connect to that directory.

I am...

Thanks a lot vgersh99!. It worked. I think when I searched the forum it was your answer which I took at the first time. You are a genius.

Thanks
Shash

Hi All,

I have a problem in appending the files

File 1
0.0000001 0.500000039894
0.0000002 0.500000079788
0.0000003 0.500000119683
0.0000004 0.500000159577
0.0000005 0.500000199471...

Got it...

awk '$1 !~ /"0"/' inputfile > outputfile

Hi All,

I need to select only those records having a non zero record in the first column of a comma delimited file.

Suppose my input file is having data like:

"0","01/08/2005...

Thanks I got the info...

Thanks
Shash

Hi All,

How can I eliminate the blank lines from a file.

For e.g.

File1 contains
ABCD
EFGH

ZZZZ
HJHH

KJKJ

IUYU

I need the file to be as follows....
ABCD
EFGH

Hi Vino,

I changed as mentioned but its not working properly..

I had three months file i.e. sep, jun & may of 2005.

But it came out after copying jun's file instead of sep file.

Thanks...

Hi Vino,

Thank you so much. The break worked.

If there are many files of different months. The file would not copy the latest but infact it does the opposite.

After changing the month to...

Hi Vino,

Thank you so much.... Its working.
But we need to change the month as

month="jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov dec"

One more thing, I get the following message for the...

Hi Vino,

Thank you very much. It worked....

But can you help me with my previous query...
Can you please help me with the script.

Thanks
Shash

Hi,

Thanks for all your help. I am able to execute the shell with couple of minor changes.

MONTH=`date +%b`
YEAR=`date +%y`
mth=$MONTH | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'

But the translate function is...

Its /usr/bin/ksh ....

#! /bin/sh

MONTH=$(date +%b)
YEAR=$(date +%y)
month=$(echo $MONTH | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]')

for file in *
do
if [ "$file" = *_$month$YEAR* ] ; then
FILE=${file%%_$month$YEAR}
cp $file $FILE...

I am getting an error on line 3 as the following even after following Vino's & reborg's guidelines...

test.sh: syntax error at line 3: `MONTH=$' unexpected

I am executing this on ksh...