Recent content by darfader

thank you all rapid as ever ;)

Hi, I have been using the following to move a file from Unix to Windows -- before #! /bin/ksh # Move to appropriate directory cd /user/transfers/out/in_cab mv unprocessed/*.* . mv journey_tester.xml journey_tester.txt # FTP all files in directory ftp -inv server_name <<EOF user username...

Hi, I am having some trouble trying to loop within a loop. I am treating this like a parent/child situation where I want the parent field reproduced once and the child field is reproduced for each of its parent. Unfortunately it is not stepping through the inner loop and the same three child...

well well well thanks predamarcel :)

thanks chaps, I think I'll stick with the SED one, I have just read that if I wanted to do more than one at time, I could use the -e flag :)

thanks Greg

Hi, I am currently opening a file and using this command :%s / /;/g replacing a tab with a semi-colon, I was just wondering if I could do it without manually opening the file ? tia,

yes, they both work, thanks ;)

env SunOS 5.6 ksh Hi, I used to use this ls -l | grep ^d to list directories but am now receiving this error $ ls -l | grep ^d d: not found $ Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . . what is another way to list only directories ? tia,

thank you azimuth0 ;)

Hi, here is a quickie for you ;) hopefully I have a text file with 27997 lines similar to these, only longer 213.16;72.38;1/8/2003 00:00:00;;;;AR AUG 03; 213.16;72.38;2/8/2003 00:00:00;;;;AR AUG 03; 213.16;72.38;3/8/2003 00:00:00;;;;AR AUG 03; 213.16;72.38;4/8/2003 00:00:00;;;;AR AUG 03...

thanks chaps :D

Hi, I am using this to locate large files ls -l | sort -n +4 | tail -9 however, it only reports from the current directory I piped it to find. but without success Is there a way to fine the top nine largest files from a directory and it's sub-directories, tia,

so you don't like strtok() either :) thank you very much Salem, this is just fine....

a single record United Kingdom;EUMA;Europe + Middle East + Africa;GBR;GB;EL;Equant LNO;1078314.00;LGWTRUS2;108324F;2449800;3033.00;1S;LGW11S-23; ; ; ;X25;1116.00;ANUK820113;BT;P; ; ;0.00;9.60;;19980316.00;;;SABRENC;LGW;LGW1; ;28.27;45.18;0.00;0.00;0.00;0.00;0.00;0.00;0.00;0.00...