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Thanks, is it possible to make this command run and stop only if the file exist? So that when the certain file appears, the script sends the email and stop/exit. Because when I run this command it...

Hello,

I have a directory where sometimes appear a certain file name - and I'd like to be notified by email when that happens... so what command or script I may use?

e.g. if there's a file...

why 749 when I wanted 750-766?

and after I pasted the command is says:
"cannot be parsed."

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Hello,

I have a file with hundreds of lines. Now I need to replace positions 750-766 in each line (whatever there is there) with spaces... how can I do that?

Which command to use?

The result...

thanks a lot, it works :-)

Hello guys, would you please help me with this?


this is the line inside a file:


first line Something Today YYDDPPSVXIPYYY0XXXOFFS00000000000?


I'd like to find the position of string...

Thanks guys, I'll test that, and I'm wondering is it possible to use also the sed command?

Hi guys, I wonder if it's possible to search for a line containing 2 strings and delete that line and perhaps replace the source file with already deleted line(s).

What I mean is something like...

Hi Guys,

can someone help me how to setup a job in cron that runs each morning from 8-10 a.m. for every half an hour but starting from 8:50 a.m.?

so far i have this:

00,30 8-10 * * *

but...

tried the examples in the thread - not working :confused:

any suggestions?

Many thanks, going to look at it.

Since I found this very helpful forum and friendly people, I have a small request.

I use AIX Unix and would like to know if there's a simple way how to do a kind of compare between two files....

Great, works, many thanks!

Thanks Franklin, it gets me: 08 02

Is there a way to get the output: 802 (not 08 02)?

Thanks in advance.

Hi guys, I know it may sound silly. I have this in my script:

JD=`date +%Y +%m|cut -c "4 5 6"`
echo $JD

the JD when I run it today outputs 803. Which is 8=part of year 2008, 03 is current...

Thanks Jim,

what if I want to extract not columns but certain positions from file1? I mean I don't have any columns resp. tabs?

I'd like to choose e.g. positions 5-9 (let's say string1) and...

I found this very helpful forum and there are very friendly people, I have a small request.


I use AIX Unix and would like to know if there's a simple way how to do a kind of compare between two...