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Thanks for your help; although your suggestion to put the echo statement in parentheses did not work - it pointed me in the right direction. I began to think the echo statement itself might be the...

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I've got a script that creates multiple processes, in ksh, to bcp out 6 tables at a time. In the script, we write messages to the log to show our progress; most of the time, the log messages...

Thanks - it works fine!

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I've got two files; each has 6 records each. I want to join the files so I can compare the reserved space of tables on one server with the same tables on another server.

I tried the join...

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I need some help; I'm running the sp_spaceused command on various tables and saving the output to a file. So, I have an input file that has 3 rows - each row has 7 columns. I would...

I have a directory that has several hundred files. How would I use the find command to delete files that where created in the months prior to April?

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I'm looking at some old unix code and, need some help figuring out some of the commands. Here is the line that I'm having trouble with:

echo "$(date) ${0##*/} started" >> $summary.log

I...

I want to write a script to ensure we have enough space in test to bcp in tables from production. Currently we bcp tables out of a sybase database in production and bcp in the table data to a test...

Thanks vgersh99 - your code works perfectly

Sorry I didn't provide this earlier. Here is a sample of the file

Product Table1 300
Product Table2 226
Product Table3 410
Employee Table1 250
Employee Table2 300

So, I want to set up a do...

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I have a file that has two (or more) different types of records I want to total. How would I do this using awk?

The file may contain several dozen records. The records are sorted on the...

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I used awk on a file to created a new field. I used >> to redirect the output to a file but, it went to the screen instead of the file. Is there a way to redirect awk to a file?

Here is...

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I'm running 4 jobs in the background and I need to write the start and end times to a log file. I know there's probably a simple way to do this but, I can't think of it. I've used nohup <script...

Thanks for your help vino - I really appreciate it

I'm trying to replace a date in an XML file that has the format mm/dd/yyyy. I'm using the Unix date function to set up a variable with the current date but, when I try to replace the value in the XML...

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I'm working on a project modifying XML files in Unix and, I would like to use sed to change these values. For example, I've got a tag <book>354678209<\book> and I want to replace the value...