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Thanks for explaining that p5wiz. I decided to do this instead so that i could use some variables inside the quotes: cmd=$(ssh 192.168.0.1 "for i in $d1 $d2 $d3; do find /root/dir\$i -type f \( -name "$pre*" \) -printf %f\\\n | wc -l; done")

same problem.

Thanks p5wiz. Still no luck. There is something wrong with the command as it does not return the correct results. To return 1 value is fine but it seems to lose the others in the for loop.

Thanks PHV but i get the same result. All values are set to the last returned result. 8 8 8 instead of 27 5 8

Hi I am trying to return more than one result from a ssh command. [root@server ~]# cmd=`for i in 1 2 3; do find /root/dir$i -type f | wc -l; done` [root@server ~]# echo $cmd 27 5 8 [root@server ~]# cmd=`ssh 192.168.0.1 "for i in 1 2 3; do find /root/dir$i -type f | wc -l; done"`...

Thanks very much Feherke. I'm half way there. I am now struggling to use the value of my variable in an if statement. I haven't been able to find any info on the internet for what I'm trying to do. My objective is to assign a default value to a set of variables if they have a null value. for...

Hi I am writing a bash script in which i need to set variables in a for loop. This doesn't seem to work and I'm not sure why it is any different to setting them any where else in the script. I have tried: array=(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9); for i in ${array}; do "V$i"="test"; done but i just get a...

Ofcourse. thanks PHV.

Hi Please could someone explaing the difference between a and b in the script below. Not sure why the "a" test gives a false result. echo 19G 19 | awk '{ alert= 5 a= substr($1,1,length($1)-1) b= $2 if(a <= alert){ print "a: "a" is not less than "alert...

thanks Tony. I suspected as much.

Hi I am inserting windows newline charachers into a field with the intention that when i "select into outfile" the field data will be written on several newlines. It seems problem is that the default behaviour is to escape the backslashes when writing the outfile so i end up with the literal...

thanks feherke! works well.

Hi I am trying to create a random 2 digit number for each input record. The same number must also NOT be generated for at least 10 input records. This is what i have tried. I think I am close but I am not sure how to react to duplicates within the 10 record boundry. Probably also a more clever...

Hi I'm trying to process a file with dates in the format of "week.year". I need to convert this to "first day of week.month.year" example: 01.2006 to 02.01.2006 02.2006 to 09.01.2006 03.2006 to 16.01.2006 I'm not sure if it's possible to pass the date command a string with the week in it. Is...

Thanks PH Works perfectly. That was a stupid mistake with no file for sort.

Hi I now need to add the last field for the dupilcate columns. so for data like: aaa bbb ccc 10 aaa ddd ddd 10 aaa bbb ccc 20 I would like to get aaa bbb ccc 30 aaa ddd ddd 10 Yet again i can't use arrays so i need to sort an then match the current record with following one. My attempt but...

Thanks PH I did do that at first, which was fine but then I realised I needed to see which lines were duplicated aswell as which lines were unique. Sorry, deviated from my original question.

Thanks PH Had to stick uniq in there to see what the duplicates were. This seems like it does the trick. sort -k 1,10 large.txt | uniq -d > results.txt Presume there would be a way to use sort and awk to do a similar thing.

Hi I have a large file approx. 10 million records or 600mb. I would like to remove dupicates based on the first 10 fields. I have a script which builds an array to match against which works fine on smaller files but my pc falls over if I try to do the same thing with large files. Is there a...

Thanks vlad Just been running it on real data. Works perfectly, no changes. Third column not too important at the moment, was just trying to simulate the real data as closely as possible. Trying to understand the code at the moment. Thanks again