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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Capturing some data from a file into a variable Post 302076691 by shiroh_1982 on Thursday 15th of June 2006 07:43:20 AM
Old 06-15-2006
Capturing some data from a file into a variable
I have a file with some values in a tab delimted format

Eg:
'test' contains:

a<tab>b<tab>c<tab>Trk_12345678

now i need to capture this value 'Trk_12345678' into a variable say 'x' and append that value of 12345678 to 12345679 and store is back to a new 'test1' file as :

'test1' contains:

a<tab>b<tab>c<tab>Trk_12345679

Can someone kindly help me on this.I kinda know u have to use commands like sed,cut etc..i jst need some insight of the exact usage.

Thanks.
shiroh_1982
 

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pfspad

pfspad(1)						      General Commands Manual							 pfspad(1)

NAME

       pfspad - Add borders to a frame in PFS stream

SYNOPSIS

       pfspad  [--left	<columns>]  [--right <columns>] [--top <rows>] [--bottom <rows>] [--width <new_width>] [--height <new_height>] [--R <val>]
       [--G <val>] [--B <val>] [--Y <val>] [--help]

DESCRIPTION

       Add borders to each frame in PFS stream. User specifies size of left, right, top and bottom border or size of an  output  image.  Color	of
       borders can be specified as well.

OPTIONS

       --left <columns>, -l <columns>
	      Width in pixels of the left border.

       --right <columns>, -r <columns>
	      Width in pixels of the right border.

       --top <rows>, -t <rows>
	      Height in pixels of the top border.

       --bottom <rows>, -b <rows>
	      Height in pixels of the bottom border.

       --width <new_width>, -W <new_width>
	      Width of an output image. Note that --width can be mixed with either --left or --right option.

       --height <new_height>, -H <new_height>
	      Height of an output image. Note that --height can be mixed with either --top or --bottom option.

       --R <val>, -R <val>, --G <val>, -G <val>, --B <val>, -B <val>
	      Color of borders in RGB mode. Default color is black, and if some of the components is not specified, its value is set to 0.0.

       --Y <val>, -Y <val>
	      Color of borders in luminance mode.

       --help, -h
	      Print a list of commandline options.

EXAMPLES

       pfsin image.hdr | pfspad --left 50 --bottom 20 | pfsout out.hdr
	      Add 50 columns to the left and 20 rows to the bottom side of image.hdr.  Color of borders is default black.

       pfsin image.hdr | pfspad --top 20 --height 500 --width 400 --R 1.0 | pfsout out.hdr
	      Add 20 rows to the top side of image.hdr and create output image out.hdr 500 pixels in height and 400 pixels in width. Color of bor-
	      ders is set to red.

SEE ALSO

       pfsin(1) pfsout(1)

BUGS

       Please report bugs and comments to Dorota Zdrojewska <dzdrojewska@wi.ps.pl>.

																	 pfspad(1)
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