RE: Unix Help

2003-10-08 Thread Nelson, Allan
Title: Message DEST_DIR=your_desination_directory SOURCE_DIR=your_source_directory for file in `ls $SOURCE_DIR` do fn=basename $file if [ ! -f $DEST_DIR/$fn ] then cp $file $DEST_DIR/$fn fi done Hope it helps. Allan -Original Message-From: Sujatha Madan [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Unix help

2002-04-16 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Yawn... -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 10:08 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I have this unix script, please tell me how to change it so it also does the following: counts the time between start time and end time of the process(I mean time difference

Re: UNIX help needed for sed multi-line pattern space

2001-11-15 Thread Ron Rogers
Alan, What do you mean the file is to large for vi? If you are going to string the lines together be sure that you don't overrun the linitations of the server input line length. If you need to have continuations in the line I think that the \ tells the server the command is continued on the

RE: UNIX help needed for sed multi-line pattern space

2001-11-15 Thread chris . w . johnson
Title: UNIX help needed for sed multi-line pattern space Alan, Why not use awk? cat filename | awk '{if ( substr($0,length($0),1) == ";") {print " " $0 } else {printf($0) }}' Hope this helps Chris -Original Message-From: Martin, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 15