Since you have so many files, you are likely to hit problems with the line length of
the various shells. Assuming that all of the files are in the directory
/usr/myfiles and that the script mentioned below is named cvtip, is executable and
is in /usr/local/bin (or some other directory in the
Title: RE: UNIX SCRIPT ISSUE - URGENT
No unix expert but the first option can be achieved automatically
by running the following script
for filename in `ls *.file`
do
unix script as listed
done
Rename a couple of the files and try out the syntax and work out the timings.
Once it all
for i in `ls`
do
YourScript.shl $i
done
Unless you are also processing your newfile.dat in the script you need
to make unique names for the output files.
Something like:
sed s/Report by Hosts/$IP| Report by Hosts/ $FN new_${FN}.dat
so you will get an output file from each input file.
Try awk or perl. They can handle string manipulation from OS commands
simply and quickly. A simple awk script to take the first 16 characters of
the output of ls and put it into a data file follows:
gawk 'BEGIN { while (ls | getline) print substr($1,1,16) | Report by
Hosts}' new.dat
Defry
