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If I use -f I am getting an error as below:

split: Not a recognized flag: f
Usage: split [-l Line_Count] [-a Suffix_Length] [File [Prefix]]
or: split -b Number[k|m] [-a Suffix_Length] [File...

For some reason its throwing error as
split: illegal option -- d
so i modified it by removing d and its working

ls | split -l 500 - /tmp/file-list-


It is just writing the filenames,...

I do not have to move the content of the files but only have to write first 500 file names into one file, then the next 500 file names into another file etc until no more file were found.

Thank...

I have about 35,000 files in one directory. Here I have to write a ksh to take only the filenames of 500 files at a time and put them into a new file. Can anyone please help me.

Thank you.

Thank you Franklin.

I understood that by writing the script as below, we can capture stdout and stderr to a file.
./program.ksh >> /home/log.txt 2>> /home/log.txt

Instead how to get the...

Can we capture and write all the error messages which were being displayed on the command prompt screen during execution of a program into a log file?

If yes, can anyone please let me know on how...

Thank you friends it worked

dont we have something like break or continue which we can use instead of returnning a value?

I have a main script with while loop having for loop inside. Again in for loop based on if condition few functions will be called. So when a function is called for certain condition it should come...

Works perfect for my requirement.
Thank you very much

I have a script which checks for *.txt files in a particular directory and if no files were found then it goes into sleep for 10 secs and looks back for files again and if any files were found then...

This is not an homework

I do not have perl on my machine and i have to write it using ksh

Thank you everyone for sharing your thoughts

Hi rwuerth, when i used your code, for some reason it is removing any existing spaces from the record.

i.e. say if the record to be converted is
...

I have a file with 50,000 records in it, i have a requirement to use the same 50,000 records and add them 4 times to the same file to make a total of 200,000 records. I was wondering how to do this...

Instead of replacing whole string abc12345 with 12345678 and so on it is adding 678 at the end of the string.
Input file mod.txt
dallastexasabc12345tx
dentonabc12345tx
houstoabc12345tx...

Hi Friends,

I have a text file which has about 200,000 records in it. we have a string which repeats in each and every record. So we have to write a script in ksh which finds that string on each...

I have to write a script in ksh which again should call another script. Say A.ksh is calling B.ksh. Now in B.ksh if the condition we are checking for is true then we have to go back to the main...

Sorry i missed my other part of the question in hurry.

target.ksh is the mainscript which is calling ftp_script.ksh.

ftp_script.ksh
result=`ftp -v <<**
open $machine
put file.txt...

Hi Friends,
I have two scripts,
i) the mainscript (target.ksh)
ii) and the other script to FTP a file from unix server to Mainframe (ftp_script.ksh)
The process is automated. so initially we...

I am writing a ksh which has to load 7 files(.dat files) from input directory into oracle tables using sql loader. The process has to take each file at a time and once if it is loaded succesfully...

I have to check the oracle database status using ksh, if the database is down then i need to send my dba an email saying database is down and wait for 10 mins and check for the status again and so...

you are right, it helps people like us who are learners.
I appreciate it buddy. Once again thanks a lot:)

Thank you very much:b:

Thanks for the explanation too

This is not an home work, i am new to forums concept and to the unix too.
I have a situation at work where i need to compare two oracle tables and see wheatear we have duplicates or not. if...