Need help with shell script for chekking a column in txt file - pipe delimited
Hi:
I have a text file date(pipe delimited) which is loaded in to the DB using sql loader(&CTL files) after some initial validation by the shell script.
Now i have a situation where the shell script needs to check a column in the text file and if it is NULL then it needs send this record/row to another new file ( later this file will be used to attach in the email to correct the null column), i do not want to delete the record from the original file but just want to check that column and if its null send the row to new file...here is data in the text file which i trimmed/formated for easy understanding:
I would like to check the 8th column which has 'M' for couple of records and NULL/nothing for couple others, i would like to send the ones which are NULL to new file.
Any kind of suggestion would be really appreciated.
thanks,
ravi
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Hi,
I have a pipe delimited txt file which contains 17 fields per line/row.
16th field contains email id. I want to count the number of lines/rows that contains null in the 16th field.
Plz find attached example data file.
I'm looking for a command line/script which achieves this.
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|A|B|C||D|E
|F|G|H||I|J
|K|L|M||N|O
|P|Q|R||S|T
As shown above, the column 4 is currently blank and i need to insert sequence... (5 Replies)
I have a file which was pipe delimited, I need to make it tab delimited. I tried with sed but no use
cat file | sed 's/|//t/g'
The above command substituted "/t" not tab in the place of pipe.
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abc|123|2012-01-30|2012-04-28|xyz
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I have pipe delimited flat file as below
1|ab|4.5|9|
2|ac|3|12|
3|ac|4.5|8|
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I have a large dat file where each lines are pipe delimited values. I need to parse the file depending on the request. For example: sometimes I have told to remove all the values in the 7th column (this case remove values '3333' only from the first line and '3543' from the second line)... (4 Replies)
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1|10/15/2011|fname1|lname1
2|10/15/2012|fname2|lname2
3|10/15/2013|fname3|lname3
Output file:
1||fname1|lname1
2||fname2|lname2
3||fname3|lname3
I tried this
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ex:
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1|A|apple
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I have a requirement where I have to check whether the mandatory columns in a pipe delimited file is null and print error message.
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Emp1|FirstName|MiddleName|LastName|Address|Pincode|PhoneNumber
1234|FirstName1|MiddleName2|LastName3| Add1 || ADD2|123|000000000
Output :
1234|FirstName1|MiddleName2|LastName3| Add1 ,, ADD2|123|000000000
OR
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