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Stepped execution with cron and at
I had a query from a reader today as a follow up to my System Administrators Toolkit: Time and event management article at developerWorks: How do I execute a script at a specific interval, for example 28 days, rather than on a specific day or date…
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Using awk with different input/output separators
I had to reformat some stuff from the man pages for inclusion in another document that would be converted to a proper table. Here’s a trick for using awk/gawk to take the input (multiple spaces) and output with tabs using different input and outpu…