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This is the complete book. I just wanted some standard unix scripting guidelines and not syntax...

Hi,

I was wondering if any of you guys have developed shell scripting guidelines for writing unix shell scripts effectively. This includes naming standards, comments, indentation, error handing...

We do not have a separate server for each environment. Infact we have all the environments except pord on the same server. Does it make sense to set the env variable in the .profile per user account...

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Do we name the 4 env files suffixed with .sh. We currently have 2 diff types of env files as .envdev and set.dev. I also want to make sure these files just have...

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I was wondering what is the best way to write a centralized unix environment script. This script would set the application environment variables per specific environment. e.g. dev, qa, test or...

By the the original code is in the above posting. Only thing I did was to convert the awk to perl script as suggeted by Ygor. And that works great!

I'm not extracting the 200th field here.

I have a file which is 5 million records. And each records has 412 fields has delimited by "|". So that makes each records to be 2923 bytes long. I wanted to extract specific records like top 100 or...

Thanks a lot! It works great...

Is there any way to remove carriage retuns between the records?

These carriage returns are created in an excel cell by using Alt+enter, this is similar to new line...

We have input records...

The above script works fine for some record. I recently got awk error something like more than 199 fields... I'm currently using awk -f {abovescript}.awk on HP-UX 11.0 box...

Is there any way to...

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I'm using the below script to ftp the file passed as 3rd argument. I'm passing the source and destination directory as 1st and 2nd argument. This script does the ftp successfully.

The...

One more thing.. Could you tell me what it does excatly....
especially if ( gsub( /"/, "&", record ) % 2 )

Thanks in advance.

AC

Thanks a lot for all your inputs. The below code soles the problem with the example I had given. When the data had double quotes...

{ record = record $0
# If number of quotes is odd, continue...

Is there any way to remove carriage retuns between the records?

We have input records separated by TABS and have carriage returns as below:

123 456 789 ABC "1952.00" 678 "abcdef
...

I was wondering if someone has documentation templates for shell scripts.

I was looking for formal document template for the shell script that would include validation, processing details, etc.
...

Thanks guys for the information.

Is there any way we could remove the "^M" from files on unix?

and also what is the best way to count the TABS in a TAB delimited file per record?

Thanks,
AC

That's pretty wierd, i tested the redirection with my shell, I got sucess 0. Can we redirect the ./child.sh to logfile?

Thanks a lot for the reply. It works!

Is there any way to do case insensitive search with awk for the below statement:

month1=`awk '/month/' ${trgfile} | cut -d"=" -f2`

the "month" could come as Month, mOnth,MONTH etc. in a file....

There is a small correction in my parent.sh as below


#!/bin/ksh
set -x
echo "I am in parent shell now..."
child.sh >> logfile
ret_stat=$?
echo "rest_stat=$ret_stat"
echo "I am below parent...

I need to send the status from child shell failure to parent shell. I would like to know how could we accomplish this.


My parent.sh is as below:

#!/bin/ksh
set -x
echo "I am in parent shell...