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Validating Numbers & Strings
I need to inspect some varchar variables in a SQL Stored procedure in UDB DB2 v8.1, to determine whether their contents are all numbers or whether there are some non-numeric characters in there. I cannot change the datatype - it has to be a varchar. We were able to do this in Sybase using the... -
ls question
I have a script which involves an ls on a directory which contains files derived from an external source. All works fine, but VERY occasionally we get a massive number of files and the ls throws the following error: /usr/bin/ls: 0403-027 The parameter list is too long. Is there anything I...- kathi
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- Forum: UNIX Scripting
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Killing a background process
I have a script running some code as a background process via nohup. I need to be able to run a script which will kill that process. I've tried to get the pid and kill it but am having trouble with that. There has to be a simple command for non-unix people to use to stop the service - i.e. I...- kathi
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- Forum: General UNIX discussion
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rexec on RS6K
Possibly a dumb question... From a W2K server I can use rexec to perform commands such as date and who on a RS6K, however I really need to execute a script on the RS and get the output to go to a file that I can then ftp back from the RS. Additionally I can't seem to find how to include the...
