1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am getting a variable as x=2006/01/18 now I have to extract each field from it. Like x1=2006, x2=01 and x3=18. Any idea how? Thanks a lot for help. Thanks CSaha (6 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Dear friends, I'm a novice Unix user and I'm trying to learn the ropes. I have a big task I have to accomplish and I'm convinced Unix can get the job done, I just haven't figured out how. I recently posted on the topic of cutting text between unique text patterns and somebody helped me a great... (24 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, i have a line with several fields (indefinite number of - count varies) separated by colon. Now, i need to pick each field (except the first one) and have it assigned to variable within a loop. In other words, in the first iteration of the loop, the variable must be assigned with 2nd... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Greetings, I would like to extract records from a fixed width text file that have unique field elements. Data is structured like this: John A Smith NY Mary C Jones WA Adam J Clark PA Mary Jones WA Fieldname / start-end position Firstname 1-10... (8 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need some assistance, I am writing a script in bash. I want to do two things: 1/. I want to replace the LF at the end of the RFH 
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 ¸MQSTR ¸ so I can process the file record by record using a while loop. 2/. I want to extract two fields from each record, they are identified with... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have multiple files in a directory all I am trying to do is to read the files in the directory and extract data from 2nd field till 10th field and put it in a new files. The files are pipe delimited. The new file will have the same name as the old file but the prefix of PRE_oldfilename. ... (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I need to extract last character of the field retrieved from the database using select command. eg: select event,text from event_data; o/p: Event1,text1 But I need to extract only '1' from the fields...similarly '2' from Event2,text2 and '3' from Event3,text3 etc., and need to pass... (6 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have an input file with contents like: 203969 OrdAcctCycChg USAGE_DAEMON1 203970 OrdAcctCycChg USAGE_DAEMON2 203971 OrdAcctCycChg USAGE_DAEMON3 203972 OrdAcctCycChg USAGE_DAEMON4 I need to extract variables in first column... (51 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have one file A.txt which is comma separated and I want to extract first 4 field's in a file and also I want to add one more column in output A.txt in output for all records. A.txt should not be hard coded since I do not filename it may be any file. (1 Reply)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hello All, I have a requirement to split the input.xml file different files and i have tried using earlier examples(where i have posted in the forum), but still no luck Here is my input.xml <jms-system-resource> <name>UMSJMSSystemResource</name> ... (4 Replies)