1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I've been googling for the following for the past few weeks several times, but haven't yet come across something that I could easily grasp. Can someone point me in the right direction please? I'm trying to replace a character in file names, i.e. the character is a period, and I want to replace... (5 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all i am very new to shell scripting,hope u guys can help i need to replace,sort and append character for the file that look like this: 1007032811010001000100000001X700026930409 1007032811010001000200000002X700026930409 1007032711020001000300000003X700026930409... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Can someone help me to write a script / command to read in a file, character by character, replace any unknown ASCII characters with space. then write out the file to a new filename/ Thanks! (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Friends, I need a sed or awk based script to replace a character(alphabet) with ' (Apostrophe). I tried to use the following two commands 1) sed -e 's/a/'/' filename 2) awk '{sub("a","'",$1);print}' filename but both got failed. Any help on this. Thanks in advance.. (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi i have log : i want remove some char become like this: anybody can help me ? (7 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I want to writte a script that replace two character strings by two variables with the command sed butmy solution doesn't work. I'm written this: sed "s/TTFactivevent/$TTFav/g && s/switchSLL/$SLL/g" templatefile. I want to replace TTFactivevent by the variable $TTFav, that is a... (4 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, Need your help urgently. since '$' comes at the end of the line i want to remove '$' using tr command: file: 111111|.11|.00$ 222222|2.22|.00$ 333333|.33|.00$ 444444|.44|.00$ Thanks in Advance (7 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have a file having one line only. It is like trapsess:inform|10.232.167.18|1|1|50|25|0|0|0|5|1|1|78|0037| I want to replace the numbers in last two columns by As. It should look like trapsess:inform|10.232.167.18|1|1|50|25|0|0|0|5|1|1|AA|AAAA| Please, suggest me any shell... (12 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi. I'm a complete noob when it comes to scripting. I have approximately 2000 files scattered throughout different locations that I need to rename. The current files have a character, "." , that needs to be replaced with an underscore. I have no clue which route to go about correcting this.... (4 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a requirement as below. In one of my column, I have data which may or may not be separted with coma always. Now I need to validate the length of these text within the coma (if available) and if the length is more than 30 characters, I need to insert a coma either at 30 characters if its... (3 Replies)