The delimiter is |. I need to change it to another delimiter, say ~. For the above line, the output should be:
123~abcde~xyz|mn~ghelosa~3455hello~
The challenge is when | appears in a field, it cannot be changed. The field is double-quoted if there is | included (and the quote should be stripped off in the output).
I'm running against a file with 1008 records like this, all beginning '4760 Slave':
4760 Slave,7,3607 ,GL ,200605,11320024 , ,GBP ,X00033
,AI80190 ... (1 Reply)
I have file with 20 fields and its pipe delimiter. I need to remove the 18th field along with pipe delimiter that seperates 17th and 18th field. In turn that means i want to make it now a file with only 19 fields. Can some body let me know how ican remove the 18th field from the whole file? (5 Replies)
I have a file with millions of rows that I need to add a delimiter and a new field with a zero to the end of each row. (its too big to open and do a find and replace regex)
I'm looking for the next line '\n' and need to replace it with a Unit Separator (hex \037) 0 \n.
I've tried the... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I had posted earlier about printing fields using AWK, but now I have a slightly different problem. I have text files in the format:
1*2,3,4,5
and wish to print the first, third, and fifth fields, including the asterisk and commas. In other words, after filtering it should look... (1 Reply)
I have a file with three fields and field delimiter '|' like:
abc|12:13:45|123
xyz|12:87:32|
qwe|54:21:09
In the file the 1st line has proper data -> abc|12:13:45|123
,the 2nd line doesnt has data for the 3rd field which is okay
, the 3rd line doesnt has data for the 3rd field as well the... (5 Replies)
I have more than 1000 files to parse. Each file contains few lines (number of lines varies) followed by a header line having all column's name (SPOT, NAME etc) and then values for those columns.
**Example File:
sdgafh
dfhaadfha
sfgaf dhah jkthdj
SPOT NAME GENE_NAME CH_MEAN CHDN_MED ... (11 Replies)
Dear All,
1.txt (tab in between each value in a line)
a b c
a b c
a c d
you can see below, why with ~ i can output with tab, but = cannot?
# awk -F'\t' '$2 ~ /b/' 1
a b c
a b c
# awk -F'\t' '$2 = "b"' 1
a b c
a b c
a b d
... (1 Reply)
Hi Experts,
i need to change delimiter from tab to ","
sample test file
cat test
A0000368 A29938511 072569352 5 Any 2 for £1.00 BUTCHERS|CAT FOOD|400G Sep 12 2012 12:00AM Jan 5 2014 11:59PM Sep 7 2012 12:00AM M 2.000 group 5
... (2 Replies)
We have a csv file as mentioned below and the requirement is to change the date format in file as mentioned below.
Current file (file.csv)
----------------------
empname,date_of_join,dept,date_of_resignation
ram,08/09/2015,sales,21/06/2016
"akash,sahu",08/10/2015,IT,21/07/2016
... (6 Replies)
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LESSECHO(1) General Commands Manual LESSECHO(1)NAME
lessecho - expand metacharacters
SYNOPSIS
lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ...
DESCRIPTION
lessecho is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard output. But any metacharacter in the output is preceded by an "escape"
character, which by default is a backslash.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
-ex Specifies "x", rather than backslash, to be the escape char for metachars. If x is "-", no escape char is used and arguments con-
taining metachars are surrounded by quotes instead.
-ox Specifies "x", rather than double-quote, to be the open quote character, which is used if the -e- option is specified.
-cx Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.
-pn Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
-dn Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
-mx Specifies "x" to be a metachar. By default, no characters are considered metachars.
-nn Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
-fn Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer.
-a Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is that only arguments containing metacharacters are quoted
SEE ALSO less(1)AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org.
Version 487: 25 Oct 2016 LESSECHO(1)