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Thanks a lot that is already doing it. How simple can it be :)

To clarify. Depending on the filesize I need to read every n th row. The bigger the file the larger the number of lines I want to skip...

Trying to print every nth line of a huge file. Normally when using gsed one can use sed -n '3~7p' to print every 7th row starting from the 3th one. Working on AIX teh syntax sed -n '3,${p;n;n;n;n;n;n;}' is needed. However the problem is my file is to big so the param $p;n...... is becoming to...

To explain my question I build a small testcase. I have a command that seems to run fine when executed on commandline in windows: C:\Tools\gawk>echo Hello World|gawk "{ for (i = 1; i <= NF ; i++) printf \"%s\t\", substr($i,1,7); }" Hello World However when I do run it in a cmd file it goes...

My mistake. I didn't know the Solaris box had multiple versions of awk installed. Using nawk made my last question obsolete. Thanks all for your quick support!!

Damn I was too excited yesterday when experimenting on my test system. It seems the prod system has the very basic awk and that one does not alow for "command" | getline syntax. (seems only supported by NAWK and GAWK). Guess that means: not possible in this version?

That did it super !! Thank you ...

Thanks for your quick reply Feherke! As far as I can see the difference between the two is that the original version updates the timestamp per record. The 2nd has a fixed timestamp...

I have this command running on Linux : vmstat 30|awk '{now=strftime("%Y%m%d %T"); print now $0}' But on Solaris I obviously don't have strftime. Any options or custom function to create same behaviour...

A certain progam provides a column based output but column order is different for systems/versions. Simplefied something like this: System A: ColB ColA ColC ColD 1 4 1 1 2 2 5 4 1 3 0 1 System B: ColD ColB ColA...