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I am running this script in AIX (tried SH, KSH). I would like to pass in a comma deliminted list and have the script parse the list. I ran this same script in an HPUX environment and it works perfectly. I thought if I used the same shell it wouldnt matter what flavor of Unix it was on (obviously...

All, I have an input file: $cat t.txt A B C D $cat t.sh while read line do echo $line done < t.txt $./t.sh A B C D My question is: How do I "keep" the spaces? I would like the variable to hold the entire formatted line of the input file ("A B C D"). I know I can...

Hello, I have an xml file all on one line. I would like to separate all tags on separte lines. I am having problems creating the proper regex to grab the shortest pattern. Here is my example file: <a>who cares</a><b>not me</b> my script: gsub(/<\/(.*)?>/, "n") outfile: <a>who caresn...

I have an issue with an awk script I am stumped on and am looking for some assistance. Here is an example of an input file: 5019970714 W 4 0000000132 5019970721 W 4 0000000000 5020040201 20040315 F 4 0000001291 When $3 ==...

Hi, I have a macro that is importing data, what I would like to do is import data from a path specified in a form rather than having it hard coded into the macro. Is there a way to do this. Thanks

Hello, I have two tables, and would like to delete records out of the second table if they are found in the first based on a key of three fields. Take the following example the first threee columns make up the key of each table: Table 1 Table 2 1 1 1 3 1...

I would like to spin through a directory and process files older than 1 day old is there a better way to do this other than using the find command. JesCat

I would like to spawn a new process to run concurrently with the calling process within a script. If I simply call the process to run the parent process sleeps while the child process runs. However I would like them to run concurrently. Is there a way to do this. Any assistance would be...

I am tring to create a script with a dynamic regex however awk doesn't seem to like comparing a variable to a regex stored in a variable. For example: regex = &quot;/^abc/&quot; if ( $0 ~ regex ) { print 1 } else { print 0 } Whether or not the if condition is true or not the script...

Is there a way in unix scripting to test variable using regular expressions similarly to awk or sed For example: awk: $1 ~ /^[A-z].*$/ print &quot;found regular expression&quot; Can you incorporate regular expression metacharaters in unix scripts

I have a question of how to replace a string at a static starting position and length with another string. For example in the following example of text how would I replace &quot;hello&quot; with five spaces. 12hello89 Note hello will always start in position 3 with length 5. I can get sub or...