Can you try with another version of awk? Do you have nawk, or mawk, or gawk?
Or try Perl:
... assuming chrg is an integer. Or simply use the %-18.18s format suggested by aigles.
If this doesn't work for you, either, maybe you could attach a small sample file to test with. The sample you posted only has spaces at position 2651 in the version I copy+pasted from here. The number 478951 is at position 2690 in my copy. (In Perl, these numbers are one less, because substr counts offsets from zero, not positions.)
I have a text file with following content (3 lines)
filename : output.txt
first line:12/12/2008
second line:12/12/2008
third line:Y
I would like to know how we can replace 'Y' with 'N' in the 3rd line keeping 1st and 2nd lines same as what it was before.
I tried using cat output.txt... (4 Replies)
I am trying to use sed to replace specific characters at a specific position in the file with a different value... can this be done?
Example:
File:
A0199999123
A0199999124
A0199999125
Need to replace 99999 in positions 3-7 with 88888.
Any help is appreciated. (5 Replies)
I'm drawing a blank on how to use sed to replace selectively based on position in the string (vs nth occurence):
hello.|there.|how.|are.|you.|
I want the period removed in the 3rd item (as defined by the pipe delimiter) if a period is present. So the result in this case would be:
... (2 Replies)
Hello
i have a text file like this:
1 AB AC AD EE
2 WE TR YT WW
3 AS UY RF YT
the file is bigger , but that's an example of the data
what i want to do is to merge all columns together except the first one,
it will become like this :
1 ABACADEE
2 WETRYTWW
3 ASUYRFYT (8 Replies)
I have a space delimited text file with 1,000,000+ columns? I would only like to view specific ones (let's say through 1:10), how can I do that? Thanks! (3 Replies)
I asked this before, but my problem got more complicated. Heres what I am trying to do:
I'm trying to replace a string at a certain location with another string.
Heres the file I'm trying to change:
\E
I want to replace the escape code at the 3rd line, 2nd column with this escape code... (3 Replies)
How to replace the position specific values in the file..
i searched a lot the forums but i couldn't able to do...
i have file like below
576666666666666666666666666 7878 897987 121 0asdas Y12
5900fbb 777 09JJJ 78798347892374 234234234364 234232898
89HJHIHIGIUG989902743748327khjkhkjlh... (6 Replies)
Need command for position based replace:
I need a command to replace with 0 for characters in the positions 11 to 20 to all the lines starts with 6 in a file.
For example the file ABC.txt has:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
6abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz... (4 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I have a tab deliminated file as below
myfile.txt
Local Group Memberships *Administrators *Guests
I need data in below format starting from 4th position.
myfile1.txt
Administrators Guests
the above one is just an example and there could... (15 Replies)
Discussion started by: Litu1988
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In file, we have millions of records each of 1000 in length. And at specific position say 800 there is a space, we need to replace it with Character X if the ID in that row starts with 123.
So far i have used the below which is replacing space at that position to X but its not checking for... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Jagmeet Singh
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xmlistreplaceitemsposunselected
XmListReplaceItemsPosUnselected(3X)XmListReplaceItemsPosUnselected(3X)NAME
XmListReplaceItemsPosUnselected - A List function that replaces items in a list without selecting the replacement items
SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/List.h>
void XmListReplaceItemsPosUnselected (widget, new_items, item_count, position)
Widget widget;
XmString *new_items;
int item_count;
int position;
DESCRIPTION
XmListReplaceItemsPosUnselected replaces the specified number of items in the list with new items, starting at the given position. The
replacement items remain unselected, even if they currently appear in the XmNselectedItems list. Specifies the ID of the List widget to
replace items in. Specifies a pointer to the replacement items. Specifies the number of elements in new_items and the number of items in
the list to replace. This number must be non-negative. Specifies the position of the first item in the list to be replaced. A value of 1
indicates that the first item replaced is the first item in the list; a value of 2 indicates that it is the second item; and so on.
Beginning with the item specified in position, item_count items in the list are replaced with the corresponding elements from
new_items. That is, the item at position is replaced with the first element of new_items; the item after position is replaced with
the second element of new_items; and so on, until item_count is reached.
For a complete definition of List and its associated resources, see XmList(3X).
SEE ALSO XmList(3X)XmListReplaceItemsPosUnselected(3X)