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bash read file

Posted 05-24-2013 at 09:20 AM by NullTerminator
Updated 05-24-2013 at 11:26 AM by NullTerminator

Sample of while loop to process input
Code:
#!/bin/sh
##################################
# Purpose: Cleanup any confirmation reports (*.pdf) older than xx days
# Called By:  batch daily cleanup process,  /Applications/xyz/distributor.sh
# Author: jeb
# Date: 4/20/07
# Comments: The while loop is preferred over the find -exec rm {} syntax because it
#           does not spawn a process for each file to be deleted.
#           The script expects
...
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QT Notes

Posted 02-19-2013 at 05:31 PM by NullTerminator

Interesting article/sample
http://snipplr.com/view/48394/
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IBM AS400 DB2 SQL Tricks

Posted 02-08-2013 at 10:20 AM by NullTerminator

set schema mySchema

Select x,y,z from w
fetch first 20 rows only

reset an auto counter that got hosed
alter table T alter TheColumn restart with 123

grab the first non null value
select a,b,c, coalesce(z,y,z) as FirstGoodValue from T

Case
select A, case when x < 0 then 'Negative' else 'Positive' end from T

TIMESTAMP format is 'YYYY-MM-DD-hh.mm.ss.uuuuuu'

get month from a date...
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sed awk tr etc

Posted 01-15-2013 at 06:33 AM by NullTerminator
Updated 01-18-2013 at 06:54 AM by NullTerminator (add sed cmd for non prinitng char)

A couple sample to strip unreadable characters from a binary file
Code:
# Translate junk characters into newlines while squeezing
C:\Temp>tr -sc '[\011\012\015\040-\176]' \n < blob_of_data.txt

# Translate and discard single character lines
C:\Temp>tr -sc '[\011\012\015\040-\176]' \n < blob_of_data.txt | awk "length($0) > 1"
# replace a bad character in a file
0xa0 is a 'non breaking space' that appears often when...
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IBM AS400 DB2 Catalog Views

Posted 11-29-2012 at 08:57 AM by NullTerminator

Various objects are available to query the underlying meta data.
select * from qsys2.sysviews where view_owner ='xyz' and TABLE_NAME = 'tab1'
select * from qsys2.systables where table_owner ='xyz' and TABLE_NAME NOT LIKE 'SYS%'

-- Stored Procedures, SIMILAR RESULTS from sysroutines
select * from qsys2.sysprocs where routine_schema ='xyz' and ROUTINE_NAME NOT LIKE 'SYS%'

Other catalog views
SYSINDEXES
SYSKEYS
SYSPROCS
...
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