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In that case, is there another way to pass in a variable?

Hello all, I have a script which takes a telephone nummber as its only variable i.e script 01256123456. I would like to test that the variable given is a) populated b) all numeric, and c) no greater than 11 chars in length. I can test b and c, but not a, as if the script is run without a...

Thanks feherke thats worked, although i've had to copy the files into a server with gawk. I made one slight change and that was to print $0 before it prints out the results. Thanks again.

Thanks sbrews. Unfortunatley the transactionstimes are from a log file, so its an historical check I was thinking of trying to convert the strings to an epoch value, and subtracting the end from the start. Does that sound a good way? I'm using hpux 11, is there an easy(1) to get the epoch...

Hi, I need to calulate how long a 'transaction' took to complete. I have the start and end times in format yymmddhhmmssss for example; Start,end 06111500010000,06111500010000 06111500004300,06111500010000 The problem I have is that I can find no way of converting this so that it takes the...

Thanks olded and annihilannic, but i'm going to stick with the awk option. I need to run this against 30 files containing between 80-120k records, and awk is so much faster. thnaks again.

Thanks, that worked in under 30 seconds for 90k records.

Sorry wrong forum. Moved to unix scripting

Hello I have the following which although works, runs very slowly. Can anybody help with a better/faster approach? i'm trying to find out the concurrent rate of transactions Thanks. input file ========== start date/time , end date/time 0610060000580,0610060001000 0610060000580,0610060001000...

thanks santamufasa that worked perfectly.

Hi, I have a table that holds data for the whole days transactions. Each record has a date/time entry. i.e trans1,user,date/time I would like to count how many transaction i have received per hour. Could somebody explain the correct way to do this please. Thanks in advance for any help...

thanks PHV and Annihilannic, both solutions worked. I see where I went wrong now.

Hi, I'm trying to add 17 new lines after a certain string is found. The string is located on line 94 of a 233 line file. I've found the following, which adds the new lines correctly, but does not write lines 96-233 to the output file: awk '1;$1=="name=mark"{exit}END{print "name2=scott\n...

Thanks P5wizard, thats works fine. Dont suppose you know why the char translation fails?

Hi, I have a problem with a file containing "£". The file itself is created under oracle/Tru64 and transfered (ftp) to redhat linux. all this works fine, however when its pushed through a tomcat process it translates the "£" as "?". I've found a workaround and thats to vi and write quit the...