It's Clay's "Date Hammer" time

[Fritz-Gerald: Zephir]

Easy actually, & God forgive me but, it does not work on Sun, minor fixes I guess, but I dont really have the time to play with it. Perhaps, you've done it already?

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Did you get his latest (perl) version?

[Fritz-Gerald: Zephir]

In my company, PERL is a sin

[Pete Randall]

Don't say that in Procura's presence. ;>)

[Fritz-Gerald: Zephir]

Nothin personal procura, I script some perl myself and even managed to install it on some dev boxes. It's those architects, they jealously guard the technology brought on prod

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

I got this to work on a Sun box a couple of months ago. I don't have the version with me since that job ended in May. :(

Anyway, I think the only things I did were: 1) Change the shell so that it uses the ksh and 2) Change all occurrences of awk to nawk.

I believe that should do it for you.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

I remember Patrick mentioned to me that he did port it to Solaris and that he only made the changes he mentioned. My approach would be to change the 'shebang' to ksh and then mv awk to oawk and link nawk to awk. nawk is backward compatible to awk so there is really no downside to this.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Okay, here's the 'Official' version that should run on Solaris, Linux, and HP-UX. It does a $(type nawk 2>/dev/null) and if found uses it rather than 'awk'. It also invoke ksh.

I don't have a Solaris box handy to test it on but if it needs any other changes, let me know.

[Patrick Wallek]

In case you want it, here is the version that I converted to work on Sun.

I had a friend e-mail it to me.