Dear all
I have a file which looks like this
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,xxx,xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,xxx,xxxxxxxxxx
etc
basically 14 characters then a comma, three characters, then a comma then 10 characters. We are uploading this file to our mainframe and they want the commas removed, so it... (6 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
There is a ASCII file in which a comma is used as a seperator for the amount field when the amount exceed seven digits: e.g. 0001300,000. Now, this comma needs to be removed from this field, after padding leading zeros (to maintain the ASCII positions) e.g. 00001300000.... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I get some flat files with trailer which gives the totol records count and i want to remove the trailer from the file.
i used the following command it works fine with a single file.
cat file_name | grep -v 'Total records:' > file1
mv file file_name
But i dont know how to remove the... (12 Replies)
hi
I have an expression
aaabbb; xxx xxxi
i need to get the ouput as
xxx xxxi
i am using sed -e 's/\(*;\)//g' but it is not working..??
can some one suggest..
This is urgent (9 Replies)
i have the below line as output from a script. I want to delete the string "," and get the output without comma,
cat D* | grep "bytes free" | awk '{print $3}' | ?????
output:
40,966,189,056
Desired O/P:
40966189056 (1 Reply)
Hi ,
Im relatively new to unix and have to process a comma serparated flat file . I recieve some of the fields in double quotes and i want to remove it ..
INPUT
====
filed1,field2,field3,"fie,ld4"
OUTPUT
=====
field1,field2,field3,"field4"
can anyone tell me how to achieve... (10 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I have below strings
hello,hi,,,,,,start date
age,code,,,,,61,season
I am trying to format this string to
hello,hi,start date
age,code,61,season
Can anyone please help me in achieving this?
Kind Regards,
RB (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I haven't needed to do any shell based editing for nearly 20 years, and no amount of searching around has found me a solution to this very simple problem :-(
I have a csv file.
Some lines have three commas at the end. This means the invoice hasn't been paid.
I'd like to use sed / grep... (4 Replies)
Hello Team,
Could you please help me with the below question?
I have a file with the following properties
1) File Delimiter is ;
2) Text columns are within double quotes
3) Numeric columns will not have double quotes
4) File has total 6 columns
Please see a sample record from file
... (3 Replies)
Hi
I'm creating a sh script to generate a csv file. The CSV contains the values from a sql table.
The content looks this:
a,b,c,c2,c3,,,,,,,,,,,d,e
I have some code that can separate the fields using the comma as delimiter, but some values actually contain commas, such as... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: preema
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shtool-subst
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)