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Thanks dberg35. I was unable to access the first link before. I'll try to follow these two links first. David

Thanks, every one. I will try them. David

Thank you, gerrendre. 1 If you have Windows on a separat disk you could go in to BIOS and set it to boot from the disk with Win on it. seems like it's booting of the other disk now... -- I tried this option. My windows sits on F:, but the BIOS doesn't let me to change bootdisk from C: to F...

Thanks, pentode, for your suggestions. My problem is there isn't any error messages. When booting, "grub" is the only word showed up after the system check-up. There is nothing I can do after that. I thought the boot loader is looking for the linux information.

I had put this question on a Windows 2000 Server forum before, but no one can help me. I hope this is the right place this time. I got the grub message on my Dell SC600, on which I installed RedHat Linux 8.0 over Windows 2000 Server. It had been working perfectly on both Linux and Windows...

Can anybody help? Am I in the wrong forum? David

I got the grub message on my Dell SC600, on which I installed RedHat Linux 8.0 over Windows 2000 Server. It had been working perfectly on both Linux and Windows models before I got the “grub” message when I booted the machine. Once “grub” shows on the screen, I can’t do anything. However, I am...

Thank you, feherke. I modified your script a little bit by reversing the list order, it works like a charm, on my IBM AIX platform. % ls -ltr | grep ^d | tail -1 drwxr-xr-x 2 dbl users 512 Aug 21 14:28 82

I have a directory that contains a lot of files/sub-directorys as following. drwxr-xr-x 2 dbl users 512 Aug 21 13:58 80 drwxr-xr-x 2 dbl users 512 Aug 21 14:19 81 -rwxr-xr-x 1 dbl users 116004 Aug 21 14:27 DEMO.sh drwxr-xr-x 2 dbl users...

Thanks alot, rob. -- David

Hi Rob, I have similar needs to compare two files, Could you pls post your solution(s). Thanks David

Thanks for all the inputs and thoughts. David

I have a file with some records, each of which has 13 fields seperated by "|": B|dbl|F0245|PDCS 123|DS0000002| 99||dbl||A|||| How can I trim the leading spaces of Field 6, before '99'? I just need 99: such as B|dbl|F0245|PDCS 123|DS0000002|99||dbl||A|||| Thank you David

Thanks, Annihilannic.

Vlad, Idealy, I'd like to get all Field 5 from File_1.dat and File_2.dat. I noticed that something worng with the following code since it always gives me the same NDC11[$2] -- the Field 5 of File_1.dat. $1 == "F" && length(NDC11[$2])>0 { print $2 , NDC11[$2], $5 } To answer your...