1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I need to change all Newline caracters (\12) to Fieldseparator(\34). tr -A '\12' '\34' <file1> file2 Replace all delete (\177) with Newline (\12) tr -A '\177' '\12' <file2> file3 Put the name of the file first in all rows. awk '{printf "%s\34%s\n", FILENAME,$0} file3 > file4 So far no... (6 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All! I have a script having one statement like. cat xfile | sed 's/A/a/g' > xfile I have two boxes which have similar version of linux running but one is greater in speed compared to other. Lets say A is faster than B. A which is faster writes output as NULL B which... (6 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have to pass a sentence in a file, the specs are as: cat run | sed 's/SRT/'$8'/g' | sed 's/plength/68/g' | sed 's/stcol/'$5'/g' | sed 's/encol/'$6'/g' | sed 's/brdtype/'$1'/g' | sed 's/brdtxt/'$3'/g' | sed 's/demotxt/Total '$2'/g' | sed 's/bantxt/ban_'$7'/g' | sed 's/validcodes/'$4'/g' > runx... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Is there a way using grep or cat a file to create a new file based on whether the first 9 positions of each record is less than 399999999? This is a fixed file format. (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Help in writing a script using sed which updates fileOne with the contents from fileTwo Example: Contents of fileOne 1,111111 2,897823 3,235473 4,222222 Contents of fileTwo 1,111111,A,1,2 4,222222,A,2,2 5,374632,A,3,2 6,374654,A,4,2 Final File should be: 1,111111,A,1,2... (9 Replies)

6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi everyone, I'm trying to write a shell script that process a log file. The log format is generally: (8 digit hex of unix time),(system ID),(state)\n My shell script gets the file from the web, saves it in a local text directory. I then want to change the hex to decimal, convert from unix time... (7 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I am aware that the below are the equivalent in sed for cat command. sed ':' sed -n 'p' Is there any way to emulate the same using "q" option in sed? Thanks (8 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am trying to write a script to automatically create conf files and remote servers. I would like to do all this without creating files locally and copying them . Here is what I have tried. sitename=$1 prodserver=$2 ssh $prodserver "cat > /data/$sitename.conf" << cat |sed... (5 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Copy data from other file to paste cat file1: Name: server1.data.com data1 server1 running Name: server3.data.com data3 server3 running cat file2: server1 good server2 bad network not ok server3 good Output: (10 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

I will like to merge several files using 'cat', but I observe the output is not consistent. the merge begins at the last line of the first file. file1.txt: 1234 1234 1234 file2.txt: aaaa bbbb cccc dddd cat file1.txt file2.txt > file3.txt file3.txt: 1234 1234 1234aaaa bbbb cccc... (13 Replies)