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Old 04-23-2013
Need help on inserting data from text file to excel using shell script

Hi,

Please help me on this.

I want to insert data from text file to excel using shell script

Code:
nawk -v r=4 -v c=4 -v val=$a -F, 'BEGIN{OFS=","}; NR != r; NR == r {$c = val; print}' "file.csv"

I used above one to insert $a value in 4th row, 4th column in an excel file.csv and it worked.

Now my problem is, i have a data like below...

/u1
/u2
/u3

I want to insert all 3 lines in a single cell i.e., 4th row, 5th column using shell/awk script.

Please help me.

Thanks,

Last edited by Corona688; 04-23-2013 at 12:32 PM..
# 2  
Old 04-23-2013
I'm not sure CSV can accommodate this, CSV is one line per row.
# 3  
Old 04-23-2013
How about something like the following?

input_file.txt
Code:
/u1
/u2
/u3

Code:
#!/bin/bash

while read line; do
    row+=$(echo "$line" | tr '\n' ' ')
done < input_file.txt

nawk -v r=4 -v c=5 -v val="$row" -F, 'BEGIN{OFS=","}; NR != r; NR == r {$c = val; print}' "file.csv"

# 4  
Old 04-24-2013
Thanks Zoite,

It worked...
but instead of row+=$(echo "$line" | tr '\n' ' ')
i wrote row="$row $line"

Problem solved, Thanks for the solution.
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