try:
The first one works for blank lines made of a newline character only.
Thank you for answer.
'\t' doesn't work for some reason, too!
That what I try to figured out: why it could be?
Removing empty lines works fine.
The [ \t] was my original attempt to do that and after that I start to search for different way to patterning the tab and found those macros: <spc>,<tab>, but that does not work for me for some reason.
I perfectly removing all 'blank' line with
Any advices why the tab specifiers could doesn't work for me?
I want to grep "xxx(tab)iii" but dunno the way to do it.
I've tried : grep "xxx\tiii" * , but it dont works.
Is there anyone that can help me? :) (3 Replies)
I want to exclude (-v) blank records from a file before analysing it.
I know I can use '^]$' for spaces and tabs but how do you look for lines that have nothing (/n or line feed) ? (2 Replies)
Hi,
I'm using the following to insert lines into file:
sed ${rowNr}i'\
first row\
second row\
third row\
' file.txt
How can I add tab in front of each added line? "\t" or actual TAB does not seem to work?
Thanks! (2 Replies)
I'm using OpenBSD 4.3 & ksh (pdksh) default shell.
I'm trying to use sed to insert a tab into a text file with no luck.
$ sed 's/SusanAppleton/Susan\o011Appleton/' myFile.txt
Susano011Appleton
$ sed 's/SusanAppleton/Susan\tAppleton/' myFile.txt
SusantAppletonI'm close to suicide here. Please... (9 Replies)
Hello All,
I have this file with the below contents
1|2|3|4|
this|that|which|what|
when I use, sed 's/|/\t/g' infile
I get,
1t2t3t4t
thistthattwhichtwhatt
Why is this?? :confused: :wall: (13 Replies)
Hello, I am trying to find a solution to problem that's proving to be beyond my newbie skills. The below files comes from a genetics study. File 1 describes a position on the genome and file 2 does the same but is formatted differently and has more information. I am trying to match all lines in... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: andmal
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paste
PASTE(1) BSD General Commands Manual PASTE(1)NAME
paste -- merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
SYNOPSIS
paste [-s] [-d list] file ...
DESCRIPTION
The paste utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files, replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a
single tab character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output. If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files
still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source of empty lines.
The options are as follows:
-d list Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline characters instead of the default tab. The characters in list
are used circularly, i.e., when list is exhausted the first character from list is reused. This continues until a line from the
last input file (in default operation) or the last line in each file (using the -s option) is displayed, at which time paste
begins selecting characters from the beginning of list again.
The following special characters can also be used in list:
newline character
tab character
\ backslash character
Empty string (not a null character).
Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the character itself.
-s Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line order. The newline character of every line except the
last line in each input file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by the -d option.
If '-' is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly,
for each instance of '-'.
EXIT STATUS
The paste utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
List the files in the current directory in three columns:
ls | paste - - -
Combine pairs of lines from a file into single lines:
paste -s -d '
' myfile
Number the lines in a file, similar to nl(1):
sed = myfile | paste -s -d '
' - -
Create a colon-separated list of directories named bin, suitable for use in the PATH environment variable:
find / -name bin -type d | paste -s -d : -
SEE ALSO cut(1), lam(1)STANDARDS
The paste utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.
HISTORY
A paste command appeared in Version 32V AT&T UNIX.
BSD June 25, 2004 BSD