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Terminate Unix script after 12 hours
How do I write a script to terminate in 10 hours if a file is not found. The script has to check for a file, if file not found go to sleep for 1 hour, check again....sleep.... If file not found even after 12 hours, then exit with error thanks for your help- zen2003
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Awk and Pattern Match
fold does not work as the record may be a variable lenght. What I am trying to do is insert a newline before 'UNH' This substitution works sed 's/UNH/*!!@UNH/' contrl0.txt What I want to do is sed 's/UNH/geta newline char hereUNH/' contrl0.txt I tried sed 's/UNH/\\nUNH/' contrl0.txt and a few... -
Awk and Pattern Match
Nope, Can not get to either. I think I am hitting the awk's limits that are RECORD-based.If I reduce the amount of text then it works fine. Any ideas of how I can workaround this limit? -
Awk and Pattern Match
It does not come back with anything: $ awk -f a5.awk contrl0.txt + awk -f a5.awk contrl0.txt $ a5.awk is: $ cat a5.awk + cat a5.awk BEGIN { RE="UNH.*" RS=FS="UNT" } { for(i=1;i<= NF;i++) if (match($i, RE)) printf... -
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Awk and Pattern Match
No its not Oracle related. I am executing: awk -f a4.awk contrl0.txt a4.awk is: BEGIN { RE="UNH.*" FS="UNT" } { for(i=1; i <= NF; i++) { if (match($i, RE)) print substr($i, RSTART) FS ; }... -
Awk and Pattern Match
vlad help!!! Now if the line is big I get an error: Input line UNA:+.? 'UNB+UNOA:3+ cannot be longer than 3,000 bytes. How to solve this? -
Call sqlplus form unix
I am calling a sqlplus script from a shell script. I get an error on the size of the string I am passing as a parameter. Can someone help me on how I can solve this. Error is: string beginning "UNH+000000..." is too long. maximum size is 239 characters. Line that gives error...- zen2003
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Awk and Pattern Match
I get error $ new1 new1: syntax error at line 5 : `done' unexpected File new1 is: #!/bin/ksh nawk -f zen.awk zen.txt | while read theLine do echo "here is my line to process->[${theLine}]" done file zen.awk is: BEGIN { RE="UNH.*" FS="UNT" } {... -
Awk and Pattern Match
What I need to do is take each line and further process it. Is it possible to assign print substr($i, RSTART) FS to a variable and then do the futher processing to this variable using a unix script? -
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Awk and Pattern Match
How do I write the print output to a file? I tried print substr($i, RSTART, RLENGTH+100) >> aaa.txt but I get an error: syntax error The source line is 9. The error context is print substr($i, RSTART, RLENGTH+100) >> awk: The statement cannot be... -
Awk and Pattern Match
It only returns a part of the string. The result should have been UNH+00000000012689+BTS:D:96A:UN'BGM+XZ8+1'DTM+137:20030718:102'LIN+1'RFF+XC3:F2003-07-18-06.00.47.168473'RFF+AEK:03071806000002'RFF+CR:EXM 1000735AT1ZD'SE Q++1'GIS+1'UNT but what I get is... -
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Awk and Pattern Match
Thanks for you help. I tried it and does not return anything; What am I doing wrong. $ awk '/^UNH.*UNT$/{print}' file1.txt $ -
Awk and Pattern Match
This is my data file: UNA:+.? 'UNB+UNOA:3+CHASE:ZZ+ADSD:ZZ+030718:0103+00000000000630'UNH+0000 0000000326+CRL:2:2:UN'UCI+47000618072003+EV1:ZZ+CH:ZZ+7'UNT+3+000 00000000326'UNZ+1+00000000000630' UNA:+...
