Can anyone help me find and replace blank rows in a file with a numeric value (ie blankrow=someTxtOrNumValue), the file is over 500,000 rows long so it would need to be the quickest way as I'll need to do this for multiple files...I would be greatfull for any suggestions....thanks
sample file:... (2 Replies)
Ok, so when a user inputs nothing, simply pressing enter when prompted for a phone number, I get a "./addrbkfct.sh: test: argument expected" error message. I have the following function:
addNumber(){
echo "Phone number: \c";
read number;
echo $number;
if ;... (2 Replies)
hi all
this is the part i am facing a problem
eg data: filename : tr1
+ T 40
this is a sample record in that file ... the value of T can be anything, but will be a single character.
i need to cut from field two, and i am using this command
cut -d " " -f2 tr1 >tr3
and the o/p is ... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I have a ksh which peocess and get me data from 3 days...
ie if i process it on jan 28.. it gets data for 25, 26 and 27.... the process run every day and get previous 3 days data...all this data is appened to a file lets call time.out
Now time.out cannot have deplicate data so what i want... (10 Replies)
Hi, I am having a file and grabbed the contents of the field according to field widths. The command i used is:
awk 'BEGIN{FIELDWIDTHS="10 25 20 14 6 10"}{print$4,$5,$6}' newtext.text >test1.txt
i got the output for example:
val1 val2 val3
<blank> ... (3 Replies)
Ok, I am brand new to UNIX and I am trying to learn a cross between basic script and database use. I had got some ideas off the net on simple ideas for learning UNIX. I am working on creating a simple phone book program that allows myself to enter our employees from work into a phone book text... (0 Replies)
this section of the awk code i have here takes file to work with from the user.
the user specifies the file name from the command line and the file name is assigned to the variable $FLIST
awk 'BEGIN {
while((getline < "'${FLIST}'")>0)
S
FS="\n"; RS="}\n"
}
now, i dont want... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I'm having an issue trying to produce a hierarchical directory menu that has either any directories listed in a specific directory as options or options with spaces in the option content or null content.
So the menu function gets passed a base directory, it then lists any .sh scripts in... (6 Replies)
Greetings all
I have a delimited text file (the delimiter is ';') where certain fields consist of many blanks e.g. ; ; and ; ;
Before I separate the data I need to eliminate these blanks altogether.
I tried the sed command using the following syntax:
sed -i 's/; *;/;;/g' <filename>
... (15 Replies)
Hi I want to read a text file and replace various number of spaces between each string in to a single "," or any other character .Please let me know the command to do so. My input file is a txt file which is the output of a SQL table extract so it contains so many spaces between each column of the... (2 Replies)
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gnomevfs-cat
gnomevfs-cat(1) User Commands gnomevfs-cat(1)NAME
gnomevfs-cat - print a file to standard output using the VFS system
SYNOPSIS
gnomevfs-cat URI
DESCRIPTION
gnomevfs-cat prints a file to standard output using the virtual file system to access the file via a URI.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
URI Specifies the file location in standard URI format.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Cat a File From a Web Server
example% gnomevfs-cat http://www.sun.com
Example 2: Cat a Local File
example% gnomevfs-cat file:///home/user/README.txt
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure.
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/gnomevfs-cat Executable to print a file to standard output using the VFS system
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-vfs |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |External |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO gnomevfs-copy(1), gnomevfs-info(1), gnomevfs-ls(1), gnomevfs-mkdir(1)NOTES
Written by Stephen Browne, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.
SunOS 5.10 6 Sep 2004 gnomevfs-cat(1)