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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sh: Inserting tabs and moving text to 1 line Post 302128469 by 00000008 on Wednesday 25th of July 2007 04:05:06 AM
Old 07-25-2007
Question sh: Inserting tabs and moving text to 1 line
I trying to extract certain text from a csv file and then placing it into another csv file, but having problems getting the data to placed in one line with tab separated fields.

Basically would like to have text sent to interfaces.csv in one line seperated by tabs. As it currently places files in <new_line> with no tabs.

Some help would be great.

example of script::

------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/sh
#
# <24/07/2007>
#
#
#
#


DIR=/home/files/reports
export DIR
LOGDIR=/home/me
export LOGDIR

rm $LOGDIR/interfaces.csv
rm $LOGDIR/log

for FILE in $DIR/*
do
cat $FILE | head -2 | tail -1 | cut -d'"' -f2 >> $LOGDIR/interfaces.csv
cat $FILE | head -6 | tail -1 | cut -d"," -f3,4 >> $LOGDIR/interfaces.csv

if [ $? -ne 0 ]

then
echo "$FILE FAILED!!" >> log
else
echo "$FILE COMPLETE!!" >> log

fi

done

 

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evolution-addressbook-export

evolution-addressbook-export(1) 				   User Commands				   evolution-addressbook-export(1)

NAME

       evolution-addressbook-export - export local address book from Ximian Evolution, Sun Microsystems Edition

SYNOPSIS

       evolution-addressbook-export  [--async] [--format=[vcard|csv]] [--help] [--list-addressbook-folders] [--output=output-file] [--size=number]
       [--usage] [--version]

DESCRIPTION

       Export the local address book to a file.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --async		       Export in asynchronous mode. You can also use -a to specify this option.

       --format=[vcard|csv]    Specify the export format:  virtual card (vcard) or comma-separated value (csv).

       --help		       Display help text. You can also use -? to specify this option.

       --list-addressbook-foldeList the local address-book folders. You can also use -l to specify this option.

       --output=output-file    Specify the name of the output file to store the exported information. If no output file is specified, the exported
			       information is sent to standard output.

       --size=number	       Specify the number of cards in one output file in asychronous mode. The default value is 100.

       --usage		       Display brief usage text.

       --version	       Display version information.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Exporting Local Address Book in Asynchronous Mode and Vcard Format to contacts.vcf

       example% evolution-addressbook-export -a --format=vcard --output=contacts.vcf

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       1	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/evolution-addressbook-export

	   Executable to export Evolution local address book

       $HOME/evolution

	   Per-user configuration files and local storage for Evolution

       $HOME/evolution/mail/account/folders

	   Temporary files for Evolution mail

       $HOME/evolution/sunone/account/folders

	   Temporary files for Evolution Sun ONE account

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Architecture		     |SPARC			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWevo			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |CSI			     |Enabled			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |MT-Level		     |MT safe with Exceptions	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Ximian Evolution Sun Microsystems Edition User Guide

       evolution(1), evolution-address-import(1)

NOTES

       Written by Steven Zhang, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.

SunOS 5.10							    15 Apr 2004 				   evolution-addressbook-export(1)
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