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It works exactly as I need. Thanks!

I'm not comfortable using ruby, as this is the first time I have heard of it.

My apologizes, I should have been more specific. The data looks like this:

Dataset1 Dataset2 Dataset3 etc etc etc A B C D E F G blah blah blah


Required output would then be:
...

Hello,

I'm trying to replace the first x number of spaces in a line with a |. Right now I'm using a very inefficient syntax to accomplish the task and was looking to simplify it.

I have...

They both work perfectly. Thank you so much! :b: :b: :b:

Hello,
I need help adding carriage returns at specific intervals (say 692 characters) to a text file that's one continous string. I'm working in AIX5.3. Any quick help is appreciated.

Thanks!

Thanks for the reply! I'll test any post the results. :b:

Hello,
I'm looking for a wait to count the number of occurrences of a certain string of characters within a file. The file that I trying to parce has segments within the file that have a header and...

Here is also a reference to having both a body and an attachment in an e-mail:
https://www.unix.com/how-do-i-send-email/13766-send-mail-attachment-body.html

I will integrate into my script and test tomorrow as I'm walking about the door now. thank you for your help! :b:

I've used the following post as reference before:

https://www.unix.com/unix-advanced-expert-users/14417-loops-within-ftp-comands.html

Hope it helps.

I appreciate your response!

I put the following into a separate script (taic2.sh) to verify that the variable is being set properly:
errcnt=`awk '{if(/^Process/) { total+=$3}} END { print total}'...

Hello,

I have a script that executes a batch job within our application and then e-mails the log file. What I'm looking to do is to use the sed command to extract a value from this log file and...

You can also use the $LOGIN variable... at least on AIX.

Hello,
I'm trying to do specific actions based on whether a string is contained within a file or not. More specifically, I'm using the $LOGIN variable to compare to a user_list plain text file to...

I've had the same issues with running a job manually and running it from the cron. I've found environment variables used can be different between the scheduler and a manual log into the server. Do...

Thank you for your input. This is what I think I'm going to do. I can't get the counter to work right, but I'll keep messing with it.

#!/bin/sh
EMAIL1="djoy3@nomail.com"
count=0
until ls...

I'm not sure what more this shows between the two:

$ ps -ef |grep myscript.sh |grep -v grep
djoy3 606700 688184 0 09:27:57 pts/0 0:00 /bin/sh...

Hello,
I'm trying to write a script that checks for previous instances of the same script which may still be running (this script is scheduled to run every 30 minutes). I want to somehow use the...

I believe I figured out the problem. The echo command places a new line character at the end of each iteration thru the loop. I just needed to suppress the new line char for the last date. Lines...

cat -vet output:

...
09/20/06$
09/21/06$
09/22/06$
09/23/06$
09/24/06$
09/25/06$
09/26/06$
09/27/06$
09/28/06$
09/29/06$
09/30/06$
$

Won't a '^M' show using vi? I've come across the '^M' when files are ftp'd using the wrong mode.

the only thing that happens after the sed is an echo with the date stamp so be can monitor start and end times of all our processes.

I think it's my text editor (UltraEdit) displaying the file improperly, because it I use VI there is not a lbank line. But my application is seeing a blank line also when reading this file. I'm...

This ended up deleting the 09/30/06 line, but the blank line is still at the end of the file.

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...........
09/27/06
09/28/06
09/29/06
---{blank line}---...