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mrn, Thanks for your post. I cant sort as I need to maintain the order, meaning the first occurrence of a string must remain in its original position. PH, Your 'awk' statement works great. Appreciate it! Thanks, Arun

Hi Feherke, Thanks! That works great!! Arun

Hello, I have the following input file. Sri Lanka v Pakistan England v West Indies Sri Lanka v Pakistan West Indies A v India A England v West Indies West Indies A v India A England v West Indies West Indies A v India A Sri Lanka v Pakistan England v West Indies West Indies A v India A Sri...

Thanks a lot! Tried both, they work great. Arun

Hello, Here is file1... Fri Feb 17 2012, 03:20 GMT 14:20 Local, Australia v Sri Lanka,Sydney, Commonwealth Bank Series Fri Feb 17 2012, 06:00 GMT 19:00 Local, New Zealand v South Africa,Wellington, 1st T20I Sat Feb 18 2012, 11:00 GMT 15:00 Local, England v Pakistan,Dubai (DSC), 3rd ODI Sat Feb...

This is done, albeit not as I originally intended... http://www.bcci.com/ -> Records -> Batting: ALL Year range ($2) and handling of "*" needs work. Thanks AR

Thanks for the tip! :-) File1 is really about 60 lines and File2 about 80 lines. I extracted only the names that were in both file and came up with 38 names. Note this is a change from the initial request. Then, > resultfile while read NAME do grep -h "$NAME" File1 File2 | awk...

Hello, I need to combine File1 and File2 to result in File3... File1: SR Tendulkar,1989-2011,453,18111,200*,48,95,20 RT Ponting,1995-2011,370,13686,164,30,82,20 ST Jayasuriya,1989-2011,445,13430,189,28,68,34 Inzamam-ul-Haq,1991-2007,378,11739,137*,10,83,20 JH...

Thanks for the input. Works great... However, I do need to take this beyond i=21, i.e., 34, 47, 60, 73, etc. Basically, it would be i=(8 + (13 * x)), where x=0,1,2,3,4,5,etc. A quick tip on how to set this up within the awk statement would be awesome. Thanks

Hello, I have the following input... (continuous line; Field Separator=,)...

Hello Phil, Thanks for your input. Got things working with the following... I have the following javascript code... document.getElementById('BATS').value = Batsmen; and the following input html tag... <input id="BATS" type="hidden" name="userchoice"> and the following MySQL insert via PHP...

Hello, Continuing the above effort, the full code may be seen at... http://www.bcci.com/Poll/best_test_batsmen/btb.txt The polling site is... http://www.bcci.com/Poll/best_test_batsmen/btb.php The javascript variable, 'Batsman', is a string and will have a default value of: "A B C D E F G H...

Thanks Phil, working on changes... Arun

Hello, I am putting together the following rank polling for my site... http://www.bcci.com/Poll/best_test_batsmen/btb.php The entire code may be viewed here... http://www.bcci.com/Poll/best_test_batsmen/btb.txt The following method to assign the value of the javascript variable to PHP...

Thanks Annihilannic for the input... I came up with the following, which also converts to numeric and then back to the date format after sort. cat inputfile | \ while read DD; do echo $(date -d "$DD" +%s); done | \ sort -n | \ while read DD; do echo $(date -d @"$DD" +"%a %b %d %Y"); done \ >...