can anybdy help me with the relevant unix code for removing multiple instances of comma in double quotes in single row
in a comma delimited file
input
====
"ro,han","ra,hul","ku,nal","vishe,sh"
output
===
"rohan","rahul","kunal","vishesh"
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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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.8.4 2005-05-03 SHELL-QUOTE(1p)