Hi everyone
I have this script that appends a line to a file to log the running status of an application. I need to write another script to run as a scheduled job in cron to trim the first x number of lines of this file.
Could someone give me an idea how to do this?
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Hi,
I am trying to find a script command that will let me trim leading and trailing space from a string. I have coded a SQL Select and sending the output to a file. Later I am parsing the file and reading each field. The problem is that each field uses the same size as the DB2 type it was defined... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I want to trim +with leading zero's with amount fields.I know using awk for trimming leading zeros with +,but I want get the entire row itself.
cat file_name |awk -F " " '{printf "%14.4f%f\n",$4}'
ex:
10 xyz bc +00000234.4500
20 yzx foxic +002456.000
Expexted
10 xyz bc... (3 Replies)
I'm trying to parse an output log and I've managed to reduce the output to the lines I need. But I'm having trouble pulling out only the info I'm interested in. The output is 40+ lines and here is a sample
Installing AppFresh 0.8.5.pkg from ./InstallerFiles/CustomPKG/26 (26)
Installing... (2 Replies)
My file looks like this:
But I would like to 'trim' all sequences to the same lenght 32 characters, keeping intact all the identifier (>GHXCZCC01AJ8CJ)
Would it be possible to use awk to perform this task? (2 Replies)
hello,
i 'd like your help about a bash script which:
1. finds inside the html file (it is attached with my post) the code number of the Latest Stable Kernel,
2.finds the link which leads to the download location of the Latest Stable Kernel version,
(the right link should lead to the file... (3 Replies)
Hi I need to trim white spaces from strings in a file.
Input file is like this:
1_rrc_CatalogGroups.csv = 607
1_rrc_Sales_TopCatalogGroups.csv = 4
1_rrc_Sales_CatalogEntries_CatalogGroup_Rel.csv = 7
Need to trim space before and after = symbol.
This is my script:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
... (2 Replies)
Hi
I have strings like these :
Vengeance mitt
Men Vengeance gloves
Women Quatro Windstopper Etip gloves
Quatro Windstopper Etip gloves
Girls Thermobite hooded jacket
Thermobite Triclimate snow jacket
Boys Thermobite Triclimate snow jacket
and I would like to get the lower case words at... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I need one help to replace particular words in file based on if finds another words in that file .
i.e.
my self is peter@king.
i am staying at north sydney.
we all are peter@king.
How to replace peter to sham if it finds @king in any line of that file.
Please help me... (8 Replies)
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shtool-subst
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)