Shell Programming and Scripting

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Regards,


Ian

If your sysadmin has set things up like this for all users on your system, in my not so humble opinion, he or she should be fired. If you did this to yourself in one of your shell initialization files, you need to be very aware that lots of commands that work for everyone else will fail due to this unexpected behavior.

If you issue the command:

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unalias ls

and then try the command I suggested earlier (with some adjustments for the age of a Solaris Release 9 system and the removal of the timestamp):

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for lf in $(ls *.log.0??|tail -6);do printf '%s %s\n' "$lf" "$(tail -1 "$lf")" | awk '{$2=x}1';done

That should work on the HP/UX system. Change the awk to /usr/xpg4/bin/awk or nawk on the Solaris 9 system.

The tail -number is no longer listed in the standards, but is still accepted as a synonym for the today's standard's tail -nnumber preferred form on HP/UX and more recent Solaris releases.

All of this assumes that you're using ksh or bash on your Solaris system. The pure Bourne shell installed in /bin/sh on Solaris systems won't understand the $(command) form of command substitution.

@Don shouldn't tail -6 be taken out? I think it was only used in post #1 to produce the listing, no?

I picked up the tail -6 from BitterBits' post #1. If the intent is to process all files, neither tail nor ls are needed, just:

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for lf in *.log.0??;do printf '%s %s\n' "$lf" "$(tail -1 "$lf")" | awk '{$2=x}1';done

on HP/UX systems or:

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for lf in *.log.0??;do printf '%s %s\n' "$lf" "$(tail -1 "$lf")" | nawk '{$2=x}1';done

on Solaris systems.

Hi Ian,
You can award a gold star (or at least note your thanks) by clicking the "Thumbs Up Thanks" button at the bottom left of any post that you did not submit and that you have not already thanked.

It looks like you have done this two times already (and it is appreciated).

Cheers,
Don