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The problem I am having with the UNPACK function is the following: I am currently unpacking a record of 220 bytes into 3 variables. The first is to be left untouched, the second has some search and replace stuff going on in it, and the third is untouched. When I print out the results after...

Hi. The subject may be a bit odd, but what I want to do is create a cron job that will run every evening on the hour from 7pm till 2am. The job will go out and get a file from our server and check this file against counts that already exist on our current machine. If the file matches the...

This is a pretty simple question, but one that I can't seem to find a quick answer for. So I thought maybe someone on this board might be able to help me out. Basically I am using VI to look at a file with 10 records in it. With my cursor on the last character of the record, I hit the...

Hi, I am trying to figure out how I can successfully SFTP a file from within a shell script. Currently we do a few things with FTP within a shell script, but we are in the process of changing this. Can someone point me to a good way that I might be able to do the same thing with SFTP...

Hello, I am currently writing a script to print a report after collecting a bunch of information on our servers. The report is looking fine except for 1 thing. There are about 3 spots on the report that the number comes out negative. I tried running the command on the command line and I still...

Hello, I am trying to use the length function to determine the length of the input string and then print it if it is 1313 long. Else just skip it. This is what I have so far. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Any help would be great. #!/bin/ksh/perl -w use strict; ##Open file for...

I am trying to open a file and then access each line and then enter that line into the "n"th position of an array. I am not sure how to do this. I am pretty new to perl, and would love some help. Here is my small code snippet. What could I do so I can take the undefined length of...

Hello, I am trying to create a report that checks for populated values in certain positions of a fixed length record. If there is nothing in the string, then it increments a certain counter and if something exists in the string then it increments another counter. This is the code I have for...

How would I push a buffered string of 5 char's into an array that would break them into individual pieces? What I am trying to do is open a file, access the first of 5000 records which are each 5 bytes long and separated by a linefeed. Check to ensure values 2 and 4 are equal and 1 and 3 are...

How can I write a script to add a single character to a flat file that has 900,000 records. The character has to be inserted every so many particular bytes. Ex: 2000 bytes. The file then is output to another name so it now has this character at the end of each record. TIA, Geek8

Dear Experts, I am totally perplexed by a issue that came up at work today. We have a ASCII file sitting on a Linux box. There are over 900,000 records in that file and each record is 2732 bytes long. I need to add a line feed to each record to show the end. The record then would become 2733...

How do I write a script that does a "diff" on a 2.5 gig file and then process the record if there are no changes? I am kinda jumping into scripting and can't seem to get this to work since everytime it goes into the "diff" command, it says "memory exhausted". Is...