1. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi all, i have a big problem, and i don´t 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)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am new to unix and need some assistance. I have a file in the format below with about 15 fields per each record. I have 2 records displayed below. "1234","Andy ","Rich ","0001","123 Main Street ","Dallas " "2345","Andrew ","Richter ","0002","234 First Ave ... (12 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

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)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

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)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

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)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

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)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

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)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

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)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

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)

10. AIX

I'm sure this has been answered before, but my searches have not turned up the right solution. :confused: I need to remove files in a directory, without descending into subdirectories, older than n days. Some of the filenames contain spaces or other special characters: E10403 (2) E20402 (2)... (15 Replies)