I am using Posix shell to write a script. The problem I am having is that when I use the read command to go through a file I lose the tabs. How can I keep this from happening? (1 Reply)
Dear Members,
Suppose i have a variable test which stores a string as below:
test='John drives+++++++++a+++++car'
now i want to use sed on the above variable and replace + with a white space, so that i get
echo $test should give me
'john drives a car'
Between... (1 Reply)
Dear Members,
Following is the code which i am using:
integer i=7
while ((i <= 10 ));
do
param=`echo $TEST_OUT | cut -d"^" -f$i`
a=`echo ${param}`
echo `echo $a | sed 's/+/ /g'`
(( i = i + 1));
done
From the above code TEST_OUT is a variable which has the following value:
... (1 Reply)
Hello All,
I am trying to match white space in patterns through - Grep
I tried ] & ] but none of them worked.
Then I tried Perl extension '\s' and it worked.
So just wanted to know if ] & ] are still supported or have they become deprecated.
However they have been mentioned in the... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
Is there a way to perform the above, I am trying to strip out more than one space from a line, but keep the single space. See below output example.
My Name is test test2 test3 test4 test5
My Name is test test2 test3 test4 test5
Please note that the lines would contain... (7 Replies)
Hi,
What sed command (if sed is the right command) can remove ALL white space from my file. I have a csv, except I want to remove all white space between commas and characters.
My idea (without testing)
sed 's/ //g'
Is there a better way? (18 Replies)
Hi ,
I have a file with contents as below
group1 = aaaaa, bbbbb, ccccc, aaa
group2=aaa, bbbbb, ccccc, aaaaa
group3 = bbbbb, aaa, ccccc, aaaaa
group4 = bbbbb, aaa,ccccc, aaaaa
I want to search for "aaa" and the output should be as below
group1 = aaaaa, bbbbb, ccccc
group2= bbbbb, ccccc,... (3 Replies)
our user creates a text file with a white space on the filename. this same file is transfered to unix via automation tool. i have a korn shell script that reads these files on a input directory and connects to oracle database to run the oracle procedures which will load the data from each of the... (2 Replies)
Hello all,
I have a file with several lines like this:
(1,1) (4,10) (8,23) (17, 4) (6,8) etc.
and I need this:
( 1 , 1 ) ( 4 , 10 ) ( 8 , 23 ) ( 17 , 4 ) ( 6 , 8 )
How do I insert a space between the left parenthesis and the first number, between the first number and the comma,... (2 Replies)
hi guys
how can i add spacein file name with sed if strings have no space around dash
input
19-20
( 18-19 )
ABC-EFG
output after add white space
19 - 20
(18 - 19 )
ABC - EFG
thx in advance (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mhs
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igawk
IGAWK(1) Utility Commands IGAWK(1)NAME
igawk - gawk with include files
SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...
DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).
AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like
@include getopt.awk
in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.
OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.
EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk
@include getopt.awk
BEGIN {
while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
...
}
EOF
igawk -f test.awk
SEE ALSO gawk(1)
Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.
AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).
Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)