I want to open a data file from a shell script and get the last line of data as three arguments.  How would i do this?  I guess nawk has the getline() function but is there another method available...

I would like to be able to parse through a file, and have it start a new line everytime it finds "String" (which is somewhere on every line). So after this is complete, every other line in the file...

I tried to run the following script in command prompt in UNIX , it works fine. cal 8 2006 | grep -v "[A-Z]" | cut -c4-17 | awk -f /aaa/home/scripts/aaa_oli_valo_all/formatit.awk - 8 2006 >  /aaa/h...

I have a text file as follows; 1256-5656    josh; barry dd-<55> test 4566-7777 james;john ss-kkk test_2 4566 7777-9999 sean;penn dd<66> test_3 I would like to write a awk script that m...

I am developing a shell script that will log into remote boxes and check the number of users logged on by using uptime.  I kno I could do this with something like who | wc -l, however I'm already u...