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If you are attempting to automate interactive sessions within a script try using expect or perl. Expect has a utility called "autoexpect" which is similar to "script". It will record the session that...

Hmmm .. that doesn't look like bash to me. Maybe I am just not using the same bash as everyone else.

jiin

Just an additional note to that execellent reply.

man autoexpect

jiin

At the risk of a "me too" reply ...

me too .. I agree.

There are much better tools to use than nawk for this type of script.

jiin

If I understand you correctly you want to change one specific regex in a script to another. you can use sed to do global substitutions.

sed -e s/foo/bar

Build a list file with
ls > listfile...

With HP_UX you can use mailx or sendmail.

If your mailx isnt configured properly you will have to use sendmail. Scripted it would look like this:

uuencode name_of_file Name_you_want | sendmail...

If I understand your question correctly it would be:
mv My\ File\ .txt My_File.txt

jiin

The gzip and gunzip utilities are common in virtually all *nix. The easiest syntaxt is:

#gunzip filename

Normally the files will be tar'ed before they are gziped and will have to be untar'ed...

If your using linux, try moving the files with the mtools such as mcopy. This should insure that the files are there. At that point you should try an ll or ls -l to read the attributes of the file....