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bravo, you got it :)

1) man man 2) man ls

Rieekan thank you expecially for TIMTOWTDI, willy sure appreciate it. sure in unix 20 ways conduces to the same goal the Q was: why a 20 line code to do a sort? but sure you are right. why use a sort when i can do it in a 20 line script. AGAIN: thhhanks 4 expl of TIMTOWTDI. DBDGAIK

man ls

why people insist solving solved probls ? to do it easy, put your data in a file, say abc then enter a sort abc do you need numerical sort, enter sort -n abc a reversed num sort ? sort -nr abc an unique reversed numerical? sort -nru abc the best unix tool is called 'man' to use it try: man...

mlewelling you write the code light blue on dark blue your probl is 'light' to solve it write the code 'dark' blue on dark blue :)

don't confound mailx and sendmail mailx -s "subject" user@domeain < texfile or cat textfile | mailx -s "subject" user@domeain

if you want to sort why don't you use sort ?

ygor, interesting. ... s'amuser tout seul ...

i suppose your redhat is unix, who cares about size ? mkdir /where-you-have-space cd /mounted-cdrom tar cfb - 126k . |(cd /where-you-have-space; tar xfvp -)

format and iostat could not see the disk you have probls, check the hw connections (cables) last chance: probe-scsi[-all]

RVSachin: they are simply NOT blanc as phv said, a line with blancs is NOT a blanc line. Ygor: elegant :) my preferred ( == phv's grep ) sed '/^[SpaceTab]*$/d' in >out

#!/usr/bin/perl ### this is unix so if you are not an obstinate perl fanatic and accept to use the properly tool for this job... [i]in your exemple, you make string substitions, no computing, no conditional stats, so why use perl?[/b] you could call the easy, old, fantastic sed. ASSUMED the...

- ssh is your friend as thedaver says.

.netrc is good, i prefer ssh your probl is the newline between $user and $passwd try: ftp -inv $HOST << EOF user $USER $PASSWD ls bye EOF