07-24-2006
Faroe Island 20 island
japan 19 airline
The above is the sample data. As you can see, the intended first colum is actually Faroe Island instead of just Faroe. As such, It is necessary to use the char position to distinguish the columns.
Appreciate if you could provide me with some advise on how to do the sorting...For example I wanna sort according to the first column and last column
PS: Assume the 20 and 19, island and airline are all at the same char position
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I have a flat file with ~ as de-limiter (e.g: aaa~ba a~caa~0~d~e)
What I want is check if the 4th character is 0 and replace it with say 4. So now it becomes : aaa~ba a~caa~4~d~e.
I have to do this for the whole file, but the delimiter position remains the same, not the... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: akdwivedi
10 Replies
2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Please help
Need a script which will do the following :
Search on fixed width file , go to position (25,2) which means 25th and 26th position, Find if there are any char in lower case:
For example 25,2 can be (9T) or (9w) or (Ww) or (wW)....The two positions can be numeric or alpha...no... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: ssantoshss
13 Replies
3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I am using this command "sort -d -u -k1 IMSTEST.74E -o tmp.txt" to the records in the flat.
Can any tell me how to sort the file except first line in the file
For ex:
i/p
First line: DXYZ
Second line : jumy
third : cmhk
fourth : andy
Output should... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: sudhir_barker
5 Replies
4. Shell Programming and Scripting
How to extract multiple data based on character position. I need to fetch from 7-9 and 22-26 and there is no delimiter for 22-26 since it is part of the column. The file may have more than 1000 character long.I managed to pull any one but not both
for example
test data
12345 zxc vbnmlk... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: zooby
1 Replies
5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello Guys
I have a multiple character delimited flat file "|~|". when I tried to read the data the "|" character also coming
Example
I/P file
9882590|~|20111207|~|K03501000063005574033961|~|K|~|
Command to get the second column I used
awk -F"|~|" ' {print $2}' ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Pratik4891
2 Replies
6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Let say I have a file which has around 400 fields.
SampleFile
=========
PATIENTID|FACILITY|................|TIME_LAST_VISITED_BY_MD|.....|STATUS|
How is it possible to find out which field is TIME_LAST_VISITED_BY_MD?fro example by seeing the above structure we can saw FACILITY... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: machomaddy
5 Replies
7. Linux
Greetings,
We have a requirement where we need to loop in a fixed width file in linux and remove a character based on a position for every record. It would highly appreciate if someone can help to automate this.
Appreciate your time and help!
Regards (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: mailme0205
3 Replies
8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Greetings.
I have a file with information like this:
AMNDHRKEOEU?AMNDHRKEOEU?AMNDHRKEOEU?AMNDHRKEOEU?
AMNDHRKEEU?AMNDHREOEU?
AMNDHREU?AHRKEOEU?AMNDHRKEU?AMNDKEOEU?
What I need to extract is the position, in every line, of every occurrence of '?'
A desired output would be something... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Twinklefingers
6 Replies
9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi I have a text file that I want to change some of the characters based on their position. My file contain multiple lines and characters should be counted continuously line by line. For example, I want to convert the 150th T to C. What can I do? Here is a portion of my file:... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: a_bahreini
10 Replies
10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a requirement where i need to split a file based on occurence of a character which is present at a fixed position. Description is as below:
1. The file will be more than 1 Lakh records.
2. Each line will be of fixed length of 987 characters.
3. At position 28 in each line either 'C' or... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: Neelkanth
9 Replies
LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN
column
COLUMN(1) BSD General Commands Manual COLUMN(1)
NAME
column -- columnate lists
SYNOPSIS
column [-tx] [-c columns] [-s sep] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The column utility formats its input into multiple columns. Rows are filled before columns. Input is taken from file operands, or, by
default, from the standard input. Empty lines are ignored.
The options are as follows:
-c Output is formatted for a display columns wide.
-s Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the -t option.
-t Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with
the characters supplied using the -s option. Useful for pretty-printing displays.
-x Fill columns before filling rows.
DIAGNOSTICS
The column utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
ENVIRONMENT
COLUMNS The environment variable COLUMNS is used to determine the size of the screen if no other information is available.
EXAMPLES
(printf "PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY " ;
printf "HH:MM/YEAR NAME
" ;
ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t
SEE ALSO
colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1)
HISTORY
The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.
BSD
June 6, 1993 BSD