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Thanks feherke, I haven't been using perl long and had never seen the -p option. Your recommendation works like a charm. -joe

Hi all, I have a file with data that looks like this CUSTID3478901 pono1 9876534 pono2 6345827 pono3 4567001 CUSTID7650943 pono1 0192835 pono2 6019834 pono3 8876123 pono4 9933457 pono5 7756382 pono6 8566123 The list contains thousands of "CUSTID"s and each CUSTID can have anywhere from 0 to...

Thanks feherke! This is a great start. Cheers, -Joe

Hi Gurus, I have worked on this all day and can't seem to find the answer. I have this in a file: ce0: ipackets 113961312 ipackets64 113961312 ierrors 0 opackets 80229294 opackets64 80229294 oerrors 0 collisions 0 rbytes...

Thanks PHV! I guess I was trying to make it harder than it has to be! Cheers, -Joe

Hello masters of awk, I am a basic user of awk and need some help using getline and would appreciate any help you could offer. I have a file name parts with this content: ABS1234 ABS5678 ABS9101 ABS2175 ABS8234 ABS9876 ABS0765 ABS9937 ABS2254 I am trying to get the file to look like this...

thanks Dagon. That hit the nail on the head. Cheers, -Joe

Hi masters of SQL, I can't seem to get this query right and would appreciate any help you might offer. I have an application that stores log data in a 10g db and want to get information regarding process starts and the completion status of the process. Here is what I have tried: select...

Thanks PHV, That hit the nail on the head! Cheers, -Joe

HI, instead of cp /dev/null /var/mail/userid I would do this: > /var/mail/userid This will also zero out the file. This method can be used to zero out any file and saves all that typing. ;-) -joe

Hello masters of AWK, I've been trying for hours to solve this problem and need some help please. I have files with content similar to ---cut--- 5 1 0x406B01AC[free(0x406b0120)+0x8c] 0x405192BC[aaa_idb_name_cleanup(0x4051929c)+0x20] 0x4051F840[free_general_db(0x4051f828)+0x18]...

Hi, We use DDS (Dinamic Drive Sharing) for SAN attached systesm and NDMP for our Celerra (NAS). We also use check points on the Celerra and keep 4 check points for the current day and one check point from each of the last 7 days. The check points are great as they reduce the amount of time to...

@franz You most certainly can hardlink a softlink, you could also softlink to a hardlinked soft link but, why would you want to do that. Although it is true that you can only hardlink in the same FS, we're talking about linking from /etc/init.d to the rc.* directories, these directories are...

Hi, Why soft links? If the start script is deleted, you now have a dead link! I would recommend using hard links. This is also what is taught in sun's admin courses ;-) -Joe

Hi, I would never set SWAP to more than 2GB and the inital SWAP space should be on the primary (system) disk. If, for some reason, you should need additional swap space and you have additional disks, put additional swap on a different disk. Hope this helps! -Joe