I came up with this script. It seems hackish and very inefficient, but it works. I would love for someone to help me come up with a better way since this script takes almost 10 full minutes to parse a text file into less than 7000 lines.
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For a file that size, you should use awk.
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Why not simply:
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You don't need an external command to get the length of a variable's contents:
Hello ,
I have the folowing scenario :
I have a text file as follows : (say name.txt)
ABC
DEF
XYZ
And I have one more xml file as follows : (say somexml.xml)
<Name>ABC</Name>
<Age>12</Age>
<Class>D</Class>
<Name>XYZ</Name>
<Age>12</Age>
<Class>D</Class>
<Name>DEF</Name>... (7 Replies)
Might anyone know how to make a nbsp (160|0xA0) character? I am using a Dell Latitude D620 running Windows XP and then starting Exceed 9.0 defaulting to native window emulation for my X (us.kbf keymapping) (Latin-1 symbol set I believe) and calling an xterm (fontdefault, whatever that might be)... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
Today when I was working on a script to generate custom wordlist. So I ran a script and the output was directed to /tmp.
The disk space was around 19 gb. While the script was running, I decided to direct the o/p file to my 1TB drive. So I broke the run using Ctrl + C.
Now when I... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a space delimited text file that looks like the following:
BUD31 YRI 2e-06:CXorf15 YRI 3e-06:CREB1 YRI 4e-06
FLJ21438 CEU 3e-07:ETS1 CEU 8e-07:FGD3 CEU 2e-06
I want to modify the text file so that everytime there is a ":", a new line is introduced so that the document looks... (3 Replies)
This code shal search for the non-breaking space 0xA0 though it returns the error "fatal: attempt to use scalar 'nbs' as array" Can somebody help?
awk --non-decimal-data -v nbs="0xA0" '{if($0 in nbs) {print FILENAME, NR}}' *.txt (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a file which contains many lines. Some of them are longer than 50 chars. I want to break those lines but I don't want to break words, e.g. the file
This is an exemplary text which should be broken aaaaaa bbbbb ccccc
This is the second line
This line should also be broken... (3 Replies)
My source file is pipe delimeted file with 53 fields.In 33 rd column i am getting mutlple new line characters,dule to that record is breaking into multiple records.
Note : here record delimter also \n
sample Source file with 6 fields :
1234|abc| \nabcd \n bvd \n cde \n |678|890|900\n
... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I have a shell script which automates reporting and at times, requires the report line to be very long (sometimes as long as 2131 chars). The output I get is similar to this:
XXXX XXXXXXX 16:15 3.24% 5.07% 3.69% 5.23% 3.68% 4.06% 3.57% 5.03% 4.31% 5.11% 3.49% 4.19% 4.31% ... (2 Replies)