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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sh: Inserting tabs and moving text to 1 line Post 302128475 by lorcan on Wednesday 25th of July 2007 05:02:58 AM
Old 07-25-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by 00000008
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.

Code:
...
for FILE in $DIR/*
do
cat $FILE | head -2 | tail -1 | cut -d'"' -f2 | read tmpLine1
cat $FILE | head -6 | tail -1 | cut -d"," -f3,4 | read tmpLine2

echo $tmpLine1,$tmpLine2 | tr ',' '\t' >> $LOGDIR/interfaces.csv
...

 

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