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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expand(1) General Commands Manual expand(1)NAME
expand, unexpand - expand tabs to spaces, and vice versa
SYNOPSIS
tablist] [file ...]
tablist] [file ...]
Obsolescent:
tabstop] tabn] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
processes the named files or the standard input and writes to the standard output with tabs changed into spaces. Backspace characters are
preserved in the output, and the column count is decreased by one column for tab calculations. For proper tab calculation, if a multi-col-
umn character is to be "backspace'd", it should be followed by multiple backspace characters which equal to it's column width. If a tab
character is found after the last tab position, it is replaced by a single space. is useful for preprocessing character files that contain
tabs (before sorting, looking at specific columns, etc).
recognizes the following command-line options and arguments:
tablist specifies where to set the tab positions instead of the default tablist can take two forms. If it is a single num-
ber, tabs are set tablist spaces apart. tablist can also be a blank- or comma-separated list of increasing positions
where tabs are to be set.
This option is obsolescent and is equivalent to using
This option is obsolescent and is equivalent to using
processes the named files or the standard input and writes to the standard output with spaces changed into tabs where possible. By
default, only leading spaces and tabs are converted to maximal strings of tabs. The default tab position is every 8 characters. Backspace
characters are preserved into the output, and the column count is decreased by one column for tab calculations. For proper tab calcula-
tion, if a multi-column character is to be "backspace'd", it should be followed by multiple backspace characters which equal to it's column
width.
recognizes the following command-line options and arguments:
Tabs are inserted whenever they would compress the resultant file
by replacing two or more spaces before a tab position.
tablist specifies the tab positions. tablist can take two forms. If it is a single number, tabs are set every tablist spa-
ces apart. If tablist is a blank- or comma-separated list of increasing positions, tabs are set at those locations.
The option implies the option. If the option is not specified, the default is equivalent to specifying except that
is not implied for this case.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
determines the interpretation of text as single and/or multi-byte characters.
determines the language in which messages are displayed.
If or is not specified in the environment or is set to the empty string, the value of is used as a default for each unspecified or empty
variable. If is not specified or is set to the empty string, a default of "C" (see lang(5)) is used instead of
If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting, and behave as if all internationalization variables are set to "C". See
environ(5).
If is set to a non-empty string value, it overrides the values of all the other internationalization variables.
International Code Set Support
Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported with the exception that do not recognize multi-byte alternative space characters.
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE expand(1)