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cd /var/adm/Syslog

tail -1 /var/adm/messages

grep "`date '+%b %e'`" /var/adm/messages > syslog.`date +%d%m%y`.log

ls –l

for messages in `cat syslog_message_list.txt`; do grep $messages syslog.`date +%d%m%y`.log | tr -s " " |
  cut -d" " -f4,9- | sort| uniq -c >> syslog.`date +%d%m%y`.report; done

perl -i -0pe 's/^/Count Host Error Type Message\n\n/' syslog.`date +%d%m%y`.report

cat syslog_message_list_append.txt >> syslog.`date +%d%m%y`.report

cat syslog.`date +%d%m%y`.report | mailx -r Syslog -s "Syslog Report for `date | awk '{print $1, $2, $3, $6}'`" nobody@nowhere.com

vi scriptname

#!/bin/bash

cat syslog_message_list.txt | while read messages
do
       grep "${messages}" syslog.`date +%d%m%y`.log | \
       tr -s " " | \
       cut -d" " -f4,9- | \
       sort| \
       uniq -c >> syslog.`date +%d%m%y`.report
done

#!/bin/ksh

. /etc/environment             # for AIX
. /etc/bashrc                  # alternatively, for Linux


... here goes the rest of your code ...

exit 0