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UNIX- Adding days to datetime variable

Hello All, I have a date with timestamp stored in a variable and another variable which stores no. of days. Var1=2014-12-11 12:54:21 Var2=5 In my unix script, I have to add the no. of days stored in...

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Several exec on find send all the output to the last redirection

Example script: Code: find mydir -type f -exec echo {}>aaa \; -exec echo {}>bbb \; The two paths go the the bbb file, while there should be one of them on each file. How should I do it to get it...

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Working with lines or variables that have spaces or special characters

Example: Code: while read line do stat -c %G $line done < somefile.txt The problem is that inside somefile.txt lines can have any symbol allowed as file name, like (). Even with spaces, it splits...

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SSH strangeness

Two SPARC servers running latest patches on S10U11. When the mysql account logs into either machine from a windows 7 workstation via putty or other ssh program, the first attempt works fine. Trying to...

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Can't remove spaces with sed when calling it from sh -c

The following command works Code: echo "some text with spaces" | sh -c 'sed -e 's/t//g'' But this doesn't and should Code: echo "some text with spaces" | sh -c 'sed -e 's/ //g'' Any ideas?

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How to integrate AIX Client LPAR to make use of existing MS AD LDAP ?

Hi All, Its regarding the LDAP in AIX. we already have Microsoft Active Directory (LDAP) Server. And would like to integrate My client AIX LPAR to this LDAP server. So' that we can directly use Active...

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Script to Push Files

Hey Guys, Thanks for always being helpful, I have another issue that I need a little insight on how to fix. See the below script I have and the error I get. I don't understand why it does that, am I...

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Linker errors linking to .a files on OS X

Basically my problem is that when I try to compile anything using ./configure && make, it fails because of linker errors. I can reproduce the behavior I'm getting as follows: I have the two...

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Deleting all files containing string (WINDOWS DOS)

So I want to skim through all folders (ongoing from the curr dir) and delete all files that contain the string: "in conflikt standing copy". Is this possible WITH DOS ?

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Bash Script Looping all the time

Hello, I have a database file, named data.txt, and a shell script (convert.sh) to convert data.txt from columns to row. Output file name will be column_to_row.txt In this example data.txt has only four...

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Replace multiple patterns together with retaining the text in between

Hi Team I have the following text in one of the file Code: j1738-abc-system_id(in.value1)-2838 G566-deF-system_id(in.value2)-7489 I want to remove system_id(...) combination completely The output...

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Command for vlookup function

Hello experts, I have large text files that need to be arranged using a function like excel's vlookup. I have been playing with awk command but didn't really come up with a solution. Could anyone...

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How to conditionally display and remove first line only?

I have a maildir hierarchy of 90k eml files and; 1) I would like to walk the tree and display the first line from any file, whose first line begins with; From - That's "From space dash space" and only...

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Solaris10 and pxeLinux

I want to run solaris10 with my pxelinux server i put on pxelinux.cfg/default this Code: LABEL solaris 10   kernel mboot.c32   append -solaris solaris/boot/platform/i86pc/kernel/unix -v -m verbose...

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Curious About Offbeat "#" Usage in C . . .

Greetings! Being incredibly rusty in the little C which I ever knew, and, not knowing where else to turn but the best programming community on the web ( :) ), I submit the following snippet for a quick...

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Executing 'exit' command from shell script

Hi, I am writing shell script to automate few use cases for CLI interface. We have CLI interface which has bunch of commands. I am trying to execute one of the commands 'exit' as part of automation to...

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Help needed HP UX 11.11i new install on C8000 Desktop messaging system error...

Hi, I have a HP UX C8000 box , have installed 11.11i from 4 x cds numerous times to try to get a functioning Network or to try and get rid of this error on start up, after new install and 1st startup I...

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Replace from refrence file

Input file Code:   FS01,/root_vdm_9/UKSR06_FS01,test1 FS04,/root_vdm_11/UKSR04_FS04,test2 FS01,/root_vdm_7/UKSR02_FS01,test4 FS01,/root_vdm_12/UKSR03_FS01/dhdhdhdh,test5...

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[OS X] Last modification time from shell in CCYYMMDDhhmm.ss format

This example shows last mtime from epoch Code: $ stat -f %m somefile 752911565 But would like to see it like that: Code: 199311100606.05

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Tail -f | grep > output.txt

hi guys, I perform a sort of monitoring. I have a server running and with Code: tail -f | grep "Searchstring" I monitor the log-file for recent specific entries. This is ok and works fine. Now, in...

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