1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys, I hope you can help me with my problem. I have a text file that contains lines like this: 78 ANGELO -809.05 79 ANGELO2 -5,000.06 I need to find all occurences of amounts that are negative and replace them with x's 78 ANGELO xxxxxxx 79... (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello All, Plz help me with: I have a csv file with data separated by ',' and optionally enclosed by "". I want to check each of these values to see if they exceed the specified string length, and if they do I want to cut just that value to the max length allowed and keep the csv format as it... (9 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Could someone has any suggestions on this? When read a line from a file, I need to check the first char in the line, it could be a space or any char. But the leading spaces are removed by read. Thanks. (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi , I have a file named "sample" having the data as follows. "663005487","USD",0,1,"NR" If i give like a=`awk -F ',' '{printf length($2)}' sample` (Trying to find length of second field)I should get the output for the above as 3 (Omitting double quotes) not 5. How to do this..... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

how to find the string length in solaris machine. (4 Replies)

6. Programming

Hi All I want to take a Hexadecimal number as input and i want to find lenth of the input and pass it to char s ( char s ). I have a program to convert hexadecial to binary but it is taking limited input but i want to return binary number based on input. How? (1 Reply)

7. Programming

Hi all, We use strlen() fun provided by library to find the length of a string. Looking inside of it, it has some different mechanism to find the length of string. Normally, we scan the string byte by byte until the '\0' character. It takes a logn time to count length. The Library strlen()... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Solaris, ksh I have a .csv file I am trying to clean up before loading into the database. The file contains comma separated columns that have leading spaces which I need to remove. The trouble is, some columns that should not be touched are strings which happen to have the same pattern in them. ... (4 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a record of length 200 bytes and values filled is only 100 bytes and remaining 100 spaces is occupied by spaces. In script wen i try to find the length of the entire record it should get as 200 not 100. i tried using length and wc -c but it doesnt work can anyone have any idea on... (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I wanted to find and replace an email id from entire directory structure on a Linux server. I found that find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/abc@yahoo.com/xyz@gmail.com/g' would do it perfectly. But my search criteria has extended and now I want to search for a string1 like... (2 Replies)