Apologies if this has been asked before, but I searched and was not able to find an answer. It's probably a simple question to answer for those of you with some experience, though...
I have a relatively long string where tokens are separated by the colon (':') character. Let's say the string is stored in a file, 'longString.txt'. The string may look something like this:
I want to separate each token with a line break instead of a colon, so that long strings are easy to read for humans. How do I do this easily from a (bash) shell command line?
I tried with tr and sed, but even if I get to replace ':' with '\n', the '\n' is apparently not interpreted as a line break in the resulting output. Sed example:
I must remove hex characters 0A and 0D from several fields within an MS Access Table. Since I don't think it can be done in Access, I am trying here.
I am exporting a Table from Access (must be fixed length fields, I think, for my idea to work here) into a text format.
I then want to run a... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I have huge xml file. The file contains some comment tags . I have requirement to replace comment tag with another comment tag.
Say for example : file X has -- Part of the file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-2"?><translationResults jobDate="20070123 23:20:51"... (1 Reply)
i have a text file which domains something like this
123213213213/32434342
324324324/12312321321
12321321,435435435
12321312 / 12313213 / 12435435345
4353213 , 123213213213
21321321312-12334324
234324324 - 235645645645
456456456 - 45456456456 - 45645645654243
how can i replace '/' and... (4 Replies)
Hello all,
This is my first post here, so please excuse me if this question is too obvious or has been asked before. I am new to Unix and although I tried to search your forum for the answer to my question, I could not find an answer that would help me.
I have a 500MB csv file with numeric values... (1 Reply)
Hello.
I am a french newbie in unix shell scripting (sorry if my english speaking is wrong).
I have a file with path and filenames in it. I want to limit the number of characters on each line and break the line if necessary. But the "break" should occur after a slash caracter "/".
Example of... (9 Replies)
How do I filter only comments and still keep Line breaks at the end of the line!?
This is one of the common tasks we all do,, How can we do this in a right way..!?
I try to ignore empty lines and commented lines using following approach.
test.sh
# \040 --> SPACE character octal... (17 Replies)
I cannot seem to get this to work..
I have a file which has about 100 lines, and there is no end of line (line break \n) at the end of each line, and this is causing problem when i paste them into an application.
the file looks like this
this is a test
that is a test
balblblablblhblbha... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I'm looking for some help in renaming data-timestamps stored within different calendar directories/files.
The calendar directory has hundreds of ICS files:
~/Library/Calendars/F494C908.calendar/Events/92B65E439AAC.ics
~/Library/Calendars/F494C908.calendar/Events/DE7867E61969.ics... (8 Replies)
Suppose I have a file which has 1000 columns (5 SHOWN FOR EXAMPLE)
two alphabets are separated by a space and then tab
A A"\t"C C"\t"G G"\t"0 0"\t"T T
A G"\t"C C"\t"G G"\t"A T"\t"0 0
G A"\t"0 0"\t"G C"\t"A A"\t"T C
whenever there is a 0 0 in any column, the output should be printed as
A... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: rossi
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quiz
QUIZ(6) BSD Games Manual QUIZ(6)NAME
quiz -- random knowledge tests
SYNOPSIS
quiz [-t] [-i file] [question answer]
DESCRIPTION
The quiz utility tests your knowledge of random facts. It has a database of subjects from which you can choose. With no arguments, quiz
displays the list of available subjects.
The options are as follows:
-t Use tutorial mode, in which questions are repeated later if you didn't get them right the first time, and new questions are presented
less frequently to help you learn the older ones.
-i Specify an alternative index file.
Subjects are divided into categories. You can pick any two categories from the same subject. quiz will ask questions from the first cate-
gory and it expects answers from the second category. For example, the command ``quiz victim killer'' asks questions which are the names of
victims, and expects you to answer with the cause of their untimely demise, whereas the command ``quiz killer victim'' works the other way
around.
If you get the answer wrong, quiz lets you try again. To see the right answer, enter a blank line.
Index and Data File Syntax
The index and data files have a similar syntax. Lines in them consist of several categories separated by colons. The categories are regular
expressions formed using the following meta-characters:
pat|pat alternative patterns
{pat} optional pattern
[pat] delimiters, as in pat[pat|pat]pat
In an index file, each line represents a subject. The first category in each subject is the pathname of the data file for the subject. The
remaining categories are regular expressions for the titles of each category in the subject.
In data files, each line represents a question/answer set. Each category is the information for the question/answer for that category.
The backslash character (``'') is used to quote syntactically significant characters, or at the end of a line to signify that a continuation
line follows.
If either a question or its answer is empty, quiz will refrain from asking it.
FILES
/usr/share/games/quiz The default index and data files.
BUGS
quiz is pretty cynical about certain subjects.
BSD May 31, 1993 BSD