stat might give you what you want.

If you want to continue using awk as the workhorse, then:
ls -l f3.sh | awk '{ if( NF > 7 ) { split($7, a, ":"); print a[1] } }'

As you have been shown you can pipe the ls command to another program that further parses the output, in this case awk.
awk can do a lot of things, but even in its simplest form it can be very...

Look into the command touch

if ( ${cnt} -ge "1" ) That reads if cnt is greater or equal to 1 therefore != would have not worked.

if ($cnt >= 1) then
# whatever you want to mail
endif

csh doesn't use if/fi but rather if/endif. Look at posted script and you'll see you have an if/fi.
BTW csh doesn't have the same conditional operators than bash so -ge doesn't work.

Post your code the way you wrote it to execute. Make sure there's a space between [ and ]

It makes a difference the quotation scheme.
sed "/$npname.*in/d" parts.txt > parts.tmp

blackrobe> Can you please give me an example on how to use the "sed" command in this case??...

I can do better than that, I will give you a link to an easy to understand tutorial...

I am afraid that command doesn't produce the advertised result.

>Anyway, one more favor, care to explain
It would require a base understanding that would take some time to write. Fortunately, others has done it already. Take a look at this link...

>But, I'll still look for that [one-liner].
Because originally you used the switch -i I assumed your version of sed was GNU.
Thus sed -ie "0,/$JOBNAMES/{//d;}" filename should have work.
However,...

Instead of :
sed -ie "\|^$JOBNAME\$|d"

try:
sed -ie "0,/$JOBNAMES/{//d;}" filename

The workhorse bit is "0,/RE/". It looks from starting line until first occurrence of REGEX

>I really am...

>any ideas?
I am not running any version of Solaris so I don't know what's the "gotcha."
But if sprintf() is doing the job after the suffix "GB" is erased, let's do it.
Make an awk file that...

>So sprint if getting the values however they still have either MB or GB on the end so therefore the sprintf statement wouldnt work would it?

Yes, it would. sprintf() tries to read and convert any...

You get that result because sprintf is not receiving any value in column $2 that can convert into a decimal.
For debugging purposes substitute every line with a sprintf() call for just a print of $2...

Assuming data format:


For example purposes coming from datafile to awk and displaying to standard output. Modify to need.

awk '/s/ {
if ( index($2, "GB") ) {
$2 =...

Try this and see if you can figure out:

echo "2.3 4.56789" | awk '{printf "%.2f %.2f\n", $1, $2}'

>What does the e+11 and e+10 mean??
Search for scientific notation. When a number is large in length (very big or very small), a method has been invented to represent it using exponent.

John, Manager, Finance, $2000
Jack, Accountant, Finance, $1500

If you take off the $ sign from the field value it might work.

[Edit] Don't disregard Salem's advice. You're lucky I didn't...

result=$(echo $var1 $var2 | awk '{print $1 - $2}')
$1 inside awk becomes whatever variable you past first, and $2 becomes the second variable and so on.
More about awk...

>That gives me the following error
Yeap, expr doesn't support floating points
In bash you'll need to use bc, calc, awk, or perl
But ksh-93 supports floating points
result=$(((($obyte2 - $obyte1)...

Variables in the shell are strings. Another utility is necessary to make the evaluation.
expr can do it, but has many "gotchas" that you need to be aware of, e.i. spaces, (), *, which need to be...

Whenever you log-in or open a new terminal window that starts the shell to run, a series of scripts are executed to establish the environment in which it is to run. These scripts contains commands...

>This is strange, I've always thought because, if they didn't want you to edit your crontab file on the fly, why do they include the -e option to do just that?

My understanding is that by using...

You don't need cat to display the content of `$line".sh"' to sed, in order to substitute some text.

sed 's/ordprg/new_string/g' $line".sh" > $line".sh" redirecting to the same file you have...

sed needs to be told that test is not a substring but a word:\<word_here\>will do that. Once the pattern is matched, it deletes from that line to the end of the following one.
sed -e...