Did you try the other solutions suggested in this thread?
The problem with solution is my input file is pipe delimited and can have comma "," as data in this.
If my first 8 columns has comma "," in it this will consider it as a different field and breaks it into another line
i had a file where lines appear to be broken when they shouldn't
eg
Line 1. kerl abc sdskd sdsjkdlsd sdsdksd \
Line 2. ksdkks sdnjs djsdjsd
i can do a shift join to combine the lines but i there are plenty of files with this issue
Line 1. kerl abc sdskd sdsjkdlsd sdsdksd ksdkks sdnjs... (6 Replies)
It sounds a bit confusing but what I have is a text file like the example below (without the Line1, Line2, Line3 etc. of course) and I want to move every group of characters into a new line after each space.
Example of text file;
line1 .digg-widget-theme2 ul { background: rgb(0, 0, 0) none... (7 Replies)
...when the lines use both a colon and commas to separate the parts you want read as information.
The first version of this script used cut and other non-Bash-builtins, frequently, which made it nice and zippy with little more than average processor load in GNOME Terminal but, predictably, slow... (2 Replies)
I'm kinda stuck on this one, I have 7 files with 30.000 lines/file like this
050 0.023 0.504336
050 0.024 0.529521
050 0.025 0.538908
050 0.026 0.537035
I want to find the mean line by line of the third column from the files named like this:
Stat-f-1.dat .... Stat-f-7.dat
Stat-s-1.dat... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I have the following data:
This this DT 0.99955 0 4
is be VBZ 1 5 7
sentence sentence NN 0.916667 8 16
one one NN 0.545078 17 20
. . Fp 1 20 21
This this DT 0.99955 22 26
is be VBZ 1 27 29
the the DT 1 30 33
second 2 JJ 0.930556 34 40
sentence sentence NN 0.916667 41 49... (1 Reply)
Hello to all
May you help me with a sed or awk script to fix the text below please.
I have a file where all lines should have 67 characters but from time to time 2 lines appear together like below.
* First column always has 15 characters
* Second column always has 32 characters
* 3rd,... (5 Replies)
I need to break the line after every 3rd semi colon(;) using Unix shell scripting
Input.txt
ABC;DEF;JHY;LKU;QWE;BVF;RGHY;
Output.txt
ABC;DEF;JHY;
LKU;QWE;BVF;
RGHY; (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have input which reads like
9089.00 ----- kl jkjjljk lkkk; (909099) 9097.00 ----- HGJJHHJ jcxkjlkjvhvlk jhdkjksdfkhfskd 898.00 ----- HHHH
I am trying to do something like this - As soon as I found pattern match "XYZ.00-----" it will insert a line break to the input and will go to... (3 Replies)
I have been searching and trying to come up with an awk that will perform the following on a
converted text file (original is a pdf).
1. Since the first two lines are (begin with) text they are removed
2. if $1 is a number then all text is merged (combined) into one line until the next... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: cmccabe
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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 458: 04 Apr 2013 LESSECHO(1)