1. Shell Programming and Scripting

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)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

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)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

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)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi i want to replace the characters between positions 2 to 30 in each line in a file how to do it suggestions welcome (2 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

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)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

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)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

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)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

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)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

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)

10. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

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)