output of your command, double quotes " needs to be preserved
try this,
complicating the uncomplicated things.....
sed -e 's/[ ]"/"/g' inputfile>outputfile...
in case u have read the request is to act on file and not on echo statemtn...
as for info ...echo removes the double quotes..treating them as double quoted expression for echo command.....
hi all...
i have the next question:
i have a flat file with a lot of records (lines). Each record has 10 fields, which are separated by pipe (|). My problem is what sometimes, in the first record, there are white spaces (no values, nothing) in the beginning of the record, like this:
ws ws... (2 Replies)
hi all,
i have a big problem, and i donīt know what to do.
i have a flat file with several fields, which are separated by ";" like this:
5656838-7B;97030000-7;*;V16106133 ;1;1;
4612062-0B;97030000-7;*;C14038149 ;1;2;
8044938-0B;97030000-7;*;V16034219 ;1;2;
where B is a blank space.
... (2 Replies)
Hey ,
I have a file and it's having spaces for some of the fields in it. Like the one below. I want to remove the spaces in them through out the file. The spaces occur randomly and i can't say which field is having space. So please help. Here is sample file with spaces after 5th field. (3 Replies)
This is what I need to do
I have a file that has a field with values like this
1111 2222
3333 4444
55555 666
333333333
444444444
I need for my command to out put only those fields that do not have spaces in them. So my output for the above file would be
333333333
444444444
how... (10 Replies)
Hi,
I have a source file as mentioned below: I want to remove all the extra spaces between the fields.
a b--------|sa df-------|3232---|3
sf sa------|afs sdf-----|43-----|33
a b c------|adfsa dsf---|23-32|23
*Here '-' idicates spaces
Now, I want output as below:
a b|sa df|3232|3... (7 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I have large volume of data file as shown below.
Beganing or end of each filed, there are some blank spaces.
How do I remove those spaces?
AAA AAA1 | BBB BB1 BB2 |CC CCCC
DDDD DD | EEEEEEE EEEEEEEE | FFF FFFFFF FFFF
GG GGGGGG |HH HH ... (3 Replies)
Hi,
Does any one know how to avoid the scenario where awk ignores the fields having only spaces or empty fields?
for instance,
Data: "a","b","c","d",""," "
code:
awk -F, '{ print NF }' File
the output I get is 4 instead of 6 do you know how to avoid this? (6 Replies)
SHELL SCRIPT
Hi
I have a file in the following format
Mayank Sushant
Dheeraj Kunal
ARUN Samir
How can i replace the white space in between and replace them with a comma?? The resultant output should be
Mayank,Sushant
Dheeraj,Kunal
ARUN,Samir
i tried using
sed -e... (8 Replies)
Please see the following code, between "status" and "OK" exists many spaces, I want to get status OK . how to ignore multi spaces? If tab exists in the spaces, how to ignore it ?
Is there other commands can replace cut?
$ echo 'drv status OK'| cut... (3 Replies)
I'm trying to do something pretty simple but its appears more complicated than expected... I've lines in a text file, separated by the comma and that I want to output to another file, without the first field.
Input file:
file1,item, 12345678
file2,item, 12345678
file2,item, ... (8 Replies)