I have a text file that has over 300 lines that I need to paste identical data to. What is the easiest way to do this? For example if I have a file that has lines of text xxxxxxxx and I would like to change each line to look like this "display text(xxxxxxxx)". What would be the easiest way to do... (3 Replies)
Hello
I want to set two fields in a text file to be of size 20.
how to do it using unix ?
eg: ABC.txt
Name | City
I want Name and City both to be of size 20.
Also If I am pasting it in other file the byte size should be preserved.i.e. If I want to append content of ABC.txt to other... (0 Replies)
Preserve byte size of fields while pasting it to other file
Hello
I want to set two fields in a text file to be of size 20.
how to do it using unix ?
eg: ABC.txt
Name | City
I want Name and City both to be of size 20.
Also If I am pasting it in other file the byte size should be... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have .csv file in which I am trying to manipulate a column date, I started with awk but i am not sure how to do the below logic in .
the file has a 23 columns and in the first row if the value is Trend and in the second column the value is Analysis then the program has to... (3 Replies)
I have two text files: One is a single column of numbers and the other is a space delimited text file with multiple columns. I want to paste the single column of numbers into the second column of the latter text file. How do I go about doing that? Thanks! (1 Reply)
I have a tab delimited text file that I want to cut columns 3,4,5 from. Then I want to paste these columns into a space delimited text file between columns 2 and 3. I still want to keep the space delimited format in the final text file. How do I go about doing that? Thanks! (1 Reply)
Hello,
I'm having trouble with formatting some text via the terminal. I can get it perfectly formatted, but when I try and copy paste the text from the output file it loses it's formatting. Very frustrating!
Basically I have 7 files (data data2 data3 data4 data5 data6 data7) containing a... (13 Replies)
I have a file laid out in columns with the first two lines line being:
219 432 4567
219 432 4587
I need to create a single line command to cut the characters in the 5th column and paste them back to the first column in the same file. (Hint:Two good solutions exist, one in which you use a... (9 Replies)
Hi all,
I have certain task to do, which involves reading the first column of 1.txt file.
This is variable "event"
28434710
23456656
3456895
& finding this "event" in some other text file 2.txt, which has information in the following format
#Zgamma: 1 run: 160998 event: ... (7 Replies)
Hi Friends,
Please help.
I have 2 pipe delimited files; each one has different number of rows in it. I want to use "paste" to concatenate these files.
However, while doing it, due to difference in number of rows in each files resulting file is in haphazard manner.
E.g.
file 1
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getcol
getcol(1) General Commands Manual getcol(1)Name
getcol - Extract specified columns from an ASCII table file
Synopsis
getcol [-amv][-n num][-r lines][-s num] filename [column number range]
Description
Extract specified columns from an ASCII table file
Options
filename
Name of a ASCII table file. At least one of these must be present for any values to be printed. If it is stdin or STDIN, an ASCII
table is expected as standard input. If there is no input file, standard input is assumed.
@filename
Name of a file containing a list of ASCII table files. If this is present, any other file names on the command line will be
ignored.
field range
Print value of these columns for the number of lines of the table specified by the -n argument after the skippiing the number of
lines specified by the -s argument. A value of 0 causes the entire input line to be printed.
-a Sum all numeric columns selected, printing the sum on the line following the result. Columns with no sum are filled with ___.
(Added in version 2.6.9)
-b Input is bar-separate table file
-c Add count of number of lines in each column at end
-d <number>
Number of decimal places in f.p. output
-e Compute medians of selected columns
-f Print range of values in selected columns
-h Print Starbase tab table header
-i Input is tab-separate table file
-k Print number of columns on first line
-l <number>
Number of lines to add to each line
-m Compute the means of all numeric columns selected, printing the mean on the line following the result (or the line following the sum
if -a is used). Columns with no mean are filled with ___. (Added in version 2.6.9)
-n num Print selected columns for this many lines. If not specified, all lines will be read after the number of lines specified by -s have
been skipped.
-o OR conditions insted of ANDing them
-p Print only sum, mmean, sigma, median, or range, not entries
-r @listfile
-r line range Print columns from the lines specified as either the first nonzero number on each line of the file listfile or the
comma- and hyphen- delimitied range; i.e. 1-5,10-12 will print values from lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, and 12. (added in version
2.6.12)
-s num Skip this many line before starting to print values. If not specified, no lines will be skipped.
-t Starbase (tab-separated) table output
-v Print more information about process.
Web Page
http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/wcstools/getcol.html
Author
Doug Mink, SAO (dmink@cfa.harvard.edu)
8 November 2001 WCSTools getcol(1)