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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to edit a txt file ? Post 302200842 by RRVARMA on Friday 30th of May 2008 07:54:00 AM
Old 05-30-2008
Error How to edit a txt file ?
Hi,

I need to edit a text file which is like this..

Code:
-- D3341000600	AGEC901164   XYZ	SE0109	1RNVX	AH	2009-01-19	2009-01-11	2009-01-21
-- D3341000600	AGEC901164   XYZ	SE0109	1RNVX	AH	2009-01-19	2009-01-11	2009-01-21
-- D3341006000	AGEC921472   XYZ	SE0109	1RNVX	AH	2009-01-19	2009-01-11	2009-01-21
-- D3341006000	AGEC921472   XYZ	SE0109	1RNVX	AH	2009-01-19	2009-01-11	2009-01-21
-- D3213716600	DCEC160720   XYZ	RZ9191	1RNVX	AH	2009-01-19	2009-01-11	2009-01-21
-- D3213716600	DCEC160720   XYZ	RZ9191	1RNVX	AH	2009-01-19	2009-01-11	2009-01-21
-- D3213716300	DCEC169043   XYZ	RZ9191	1RNVX	AH	2009-01-19	2009-01-11	2009-01-21
-- D3213716300	DCEC169043   XYZ	RZ9191	1RNVX	AH	2009-01-19	2009-01-11	2009-01-21
-- D3213716100	DCEC197234   XYZ	RZ9191	1RNVX	AH	2009-01-19	2009-01-11	2009-01-21
-- D3213716100	DCEC197234   XYZ	RZ9191	1RNVX	AH	2009-01-19	2009-01-11	2009-01-21

I need to get it like this..

Code:
 D3341000600|AGEC901164   XYZ|SE0109|1RNVX|AH|2009-01-19|2009-01-11|2009-01-21
 D3341000600|AGEC901164   XYZ|SE0109|1RNVX|AH|2009-01-19|2009-01-11|2009-01-21
 D3341006000|AGEC921472   XYZ|SE0109|1RNVX|AH|2009-01-19|2009-01-11|2009-01-21
 D3341006000|AGEC921472   XYZ|SE0109|1RNVX|AH|2009-01-19|2009-01-11|2009-01-21
 D3213716600|DCEC160720   XYZ|RZ9191|1RNVX|AH|2009-01-19|2009-01-11|2009-01-21
 D3213716600|DCEC160720   XYZ|RZ9191|1RNVX|AH|2009-01-19|2009-01-11|2009-01-21
 D3213716300|DCEC169043   XYZ|RZ9191|1RNVX|AH|2009-01-19|2009-01-11|2009-01-21
 D3213716300|DCEC169043   XYZ|RZ9191|1RNVX|AH|2009-01-19|2009-01-11|2009-01-21
 D3213716100|DCEC197234   XYZ|RZ9191|1RNVX|AH|2009-01-19|2009-01-11|2009-01-21
 D3213716100|DCEC197234   XYZ|RZ9191|1RNVX|AH|2009-01-19|2009-01-11|2009-01-21

I tried with this code.. but its not working.. the script is not terminating.. and the log file is empty..

Code:
#!/bin/ksh


for name in `cat data.txt`
do
cat $name |cut -f2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9|tr '\t' '|' > processed_data.txt
done

if [ $? -eq 0] ; then echo " Prcocessing completed."
else echo "script failed"
fi

Please help..

Thanks,
RRVARMA
 

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NAME

       cpg_zcb_free - Frees a zero copy buffer #include <corosync/cpg.h>

       int cpg_zcb_fre(cpg_handle_t handle, void *buffer);

DESCRIPTION

       The cpg_zcb_free function will free a zero copy buffer.

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RETURN VALUE

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ERRORS

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