If you are interested in a general solution, S Kinzler has shared a very good perl script, align:
Using it on your data, here is a sample of the output:
Best wishes ... cheers, drl
I'm working on formatting some attendance data to meet a vendors requirements to upload to their system. With some help on the forums here, I have the data close. But they've since changed what they want.
The vendor wants me to submit three fields to them. Field 1 is the studentid field,... (4 Replies)
Hi everybody (first time posting here)
I have a file1 that looks like >
1,101,0.1,0.1
1,26,0.1,0.1
1,3,0.1,0.1
1,97,0.5,0.5
1,98,8.1,0.218919
1,99,6.2,0.248
2,101,0.1,0.1
2,24,3.1,0.147619
2,25,23.5,0.559524
2,26,34,0.723404with 762 lines..
I have another 'similar' file2 >
... (10 Replies)
Hi,
This is my first post here and I am a newbie. :)
I have a file that looks like this :
Introduction:Intro_123.html
Product definition:Prod_def.html
System Setup:SSetup-64bit.html
Setting up user accounts:Set_user_acc.html
I tried to create a script that would output "The filename... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have a custom prompt in Bash. However, I would like to further customise it so that it shows me the date and time. However, I would like this new addition to appear on the right side of the terminal window.
The idea behind this is to "visually balance" some data on the right as most of... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am looking for an awk script to do the following
Join the fields together only if the first 4 fields are same.
Can it be done with join function in awk??
a,b,c,d,8,,,
a,b,c,d,,7,,
a,b,c,d,,,9,
a,b,p,e,8,,,
a.b,p,e,,9,,
a,b,p,z,,,,9
a,b,p,z,,8,,
desired output:
... (1 Reply)
Hi experts,
I need to print the first field first then last two fields should come next and then i need to print rest of the fields.
Input :
a1,abc,jsd,fhf,fkk,b1,b2
a2,acb,dfg,ghj,b3,c4
a3,djf,wdjg,fkg,dff,ggk,d4,d5
Expected output:
a1,b1,b2,abc,jsd,fhf,fkk... (6 Replies)
I'm trying to compare 2 files for differences in a selct number of fields. When differnces are found it will write the whole record of the second file including appending '|C' out to a delta file. Each record will have 20 fields, but only want to do comparison of 1st 15 fields. The 1st field of... (7 Replies)
Hi
I have a file as below
<field1> <field2> <field3> ... <field_num1> <field_num2>
Trying to sort based on difference of <field_num1> and <field_num2> in desceding order and print all fields.
I tried this and it doesn't sort on the difference field .. Appreciate your help.
cat... (9 Replies)
The below code works great, kindly provided by @Don Cragun, the lines in bold print the current output. Since some of the fields printed can be blank some of the fields are shifted. I can not seem too add . to the blank fields like in the desired output. Basically, if there is nothing in the field... (10 Replies)
Hi,
Below are the sample files. x.txt is from an Excel file that is a list of users from Windows and y.txt is a list of database account.
$ head -500 x.txt y.txt
==> x.txt <==
TEST01 APP_USER_PROFILE
USER03 APP_USER_PROFILE
TEST02 APP_USER_EXP_PROFILE
TEST04 APP_USER_PROFILE
USER01 ... (3 Replies)
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read
read(1) General Commands Manual read(1)NAME
read - read a line from standard input
SYNOPSIS
var ...
DESCRIPTION
reads a single line from standard input. The line is split into fields as when processed by the shell (refer to shells in the first field
is assigned to the first variable var, the second field to the second variable var, and so forth. If there are more fields than there are
specified var operands, the remaining fields and their intervening separators are assigned to the last var. If there are more vars than
fields, the remaining vars are set to empty strings.
The setting of variables specified by the var operands affect the current shell execution environment.
Standard input to can be redirected from a text file.
Since affects the current shell execution environment, it is usually provided as a normal shell special (built-in) command. Thus, if it is
called in a subshell or separate utility execution environment similar to the following, it does not affect the shell variables in the
caller's environment:
Options
recognizes the following options:
Do not treat a backslash character in any special way.
Consider each backslash to be part of the input line.
Opperands
recognizes the following operands:
var The name of an existing or nonexisting shell variable.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
determines the internal field separators used to delimit fields.
RETURN VALUE
exits with one of the following values:
0 Successful completion.
>0 End-of-file was detected or an error occurred.
EXAMPLES
Print a file with the first field of each line moved to the end of the line.
while read -r xx yy
do
printf "%s %s
" "$yy" "$xx"
done < input_file
SEE ALSO csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1), sh-posix(1).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE read(1)