Using awk in that way isn't going to work for the task, it's going to assume space is the seperator and if column 1 has more than 1 word etc it will get the wrong information.
Hi,
This is my input file:
ali 5 usa abc
abu 4 uk bca
alan 6 brazil bac
pinky 10 utah sdc
My desired output:
pinky 10 utah sdc
alan 6 brazil bac
ali 5 usa abc
abu 4 uk bca
Based on the column two, I want to do the descending order and print out other related column at the... (3 Replies)
Can anyone please help with this? I have 2 files as given below.
If 2nd column of file1 has pattern foo1@a, find the matching 1st column in file2 & replace 2nd column of file1 with file2's value.
file1
abc_1 foo1@a ....
abc_1 soo2@a ...
def_2 soo2@a ....
def_2 foo1@a ........ (7 Replies)
Hi,
I have two input files as
File1 :
ABC:client1:project1
XYZ:client2-aa:project2
DEF:client4:proj
File2 :
client1:W-170:xx
client2-aa:WT-04:yy
client4:L-005A:zz
Also, array of valid values can be hardcoded like
Output :
ABC:W:project1
XYZ:WT:project2 (1 Reply)
My TSV looks like:
Hello my name is John \t Hello world \t Have a good day! \t See you later!
Is there a simple bash script that splits the tsv on tab to:
Hello my name is John
Hello world
Have a good day!
See you later!
I'm really stuck, would appreciate any help! (5 Replies)
Dear fellows, I need your help.
I'm trying to write a script to convert a single column into multiple rows.
But it need to recognize the beginning of the string and set it to its specific Column number.
Each Line (loop) begins with digit (RANGE).
At this moment it's kind of working, but it... (6 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a quick question:
I have a 4 column tab-separated file.
I want to count the number of times each unique value in column 2 appears and add that number in a 5th column.
I have the following input file:
waterline-n below-sheath-v 14.8097 A
dock-n below-sheath-v ... (4 Replies)
I have an xml file dumped from rrd file, that I want to "patch" so the xml file doesn't contain any blank hole in the resulting graph of the rrd file.
Here is the file.
<!-- 2015-10-12 14:00:00 WIB / 1444633200 --> <row><v> 4.0419731265e+07 </v><v> 4.5045912770e+06... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: rk4k
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shell-quote
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shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.8.4 2005-05-03 SHELL-QUOTE(1p)