Hello,
I have about 100 files in a directory with fields which are tab delimited. I would like to append the file name as the first field and it has to be done as many times as the total lines in the file.
For example,
myFile1.txt has the following data:
1 x y z
2 a b ... (5 Replies)
I have a file which was pipe delimited, I need to make it tab delimited. I tried with sed but no use
cat file | sed 's/|//t/g'
The above command substituted "/t" not tab in the place of pipe.
Sample file:
abc|123|2012-01-30|2012-04-28|xyz
have to convert to:
abc 123... (6 Replies)
Hi How to make tab delimited file to space delimited?
in put file:
ABC kgy
jkh ghj
ash kjl
o/p file:
ABC kgy
jkh ghj
ash kjl
Use code tags, thanks. (1 Reply)
Hi Forum.
I'm struggling to find a solution for the following issue.
I have multiple files a1.txt, a2.txt, a3.txt, etc. and I would like to insert a tab-delimited header record at the beginning of each of the files.
This is my code so far but it's not working as expected.
for i in... (2 Replies)
Here's a sample of the data:
NAME BIRTHDAY SEX LOCATION AGE ID
Jim 05/11/1986 M Japan 27 86
Rei 08/25/1990 F Korea 24 33
Jane 02/24/1985 F India 29 78
I've been trying to sort files using the... (8 Replies)
Thank you for 4 looking this post.
We have a tab delimited file where we are facing problem in a lot of funny character. I have tried using awk but failed that is not working.
In the 5th field ID which is supposed to be a integer only of that file, we are getting corrupted data as below.
I... (12 Replies)
Hi all ,
I have a file having 12 columns tab delimited .
I need to read this file and remove the column 3 and column 4 and insert a word in column 3 as "AVIALABLE "
Is there a way to do this . I am trying like below
Thanks
DJ
cat $FILENAME|awk -F"\t" '{ print $1 "\t... (3 Replies)
Hi, I have a rquirement in unix as below .
I have a text file with me seperated by | symbol and i need to generate a excel file through unix commands/script so that each value will go to each column.
ex:
Input Text file:
1|A|apple
2|B|bottle
excel file to be generated as output as... (9 Replies)
Hello Everyone..
I want to replace the retail col from FileI with cstp1 col from FileP if the strpno matches in both files
FileP.txt
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: YogeshG
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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)