Taking this task literally, any program which knows about records is not suitable. We need to read the raw file.
My solution to getting the first three characters of a file no matter what they are is:
We have avoided putting the characters in a shell variable because we don't know what they are.
Program "cut" is unsuitable if one of the characters is a linefeed for example.
Last edited by methyl; 08-16-2009 at 11:24 AM..
Reason: several typos!
Hi,
I need a script to read the n° character from a text file.
eg: if the text file contains the line "123456" ,I nedd a command to display the number 4, as an example.
I tried with awk and printf but it seems only works with words separated with spaces, but in this case I have only one word... (15 Replies)
I need a better way to read the first character of each line in a file and check if it equals the special character ¤. This character tells me where there is a break in the reports. The file has over 500,000 lines. Currently, this is my code -
if ]
I am using Korn Shell as a scripting... (7 Replies)
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)
Hello All,
We are getting files from sftp server through file transmission protocol & after transmission we are removing all the control M
(^M) characters from them.we are expecting various kind of special characters in the files.
we are tried removing '^M' characters through 'dos2unix' command... (2 Replies)
Hi,
How read character by character from a file .
and i need replace '.' with null if it comes as a 5 character
i am beginner ...please help me (1 Reply)
hello all
i request you to give the solution for the following problem..
I want read the text file.and print the contents character by character..like if the text file contains google means..i want to print
g
go
goo
goog
googl
google
like this Using unix Shell scripting...
without using... (1 Reply)
Hello,
The last character is a comma ,
I have tried the following:
sed -e 's/\,$//' filename-to-read
however - there are still commas at the end of each line...:confused: (5 Replies)
Hi,
Maybe this iscorrect forum for my question...
I should read one character at a fixed position from each line of the file. So how ??? should be substituted in the code below:
while read line ; do
single_char=`???`
echo "$single_char"
done < $input_file
OK...I did get an... (0 Replies)
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paste
PASTE(1) BSD General Commands Manual PASTE(1)NAME
paste -- merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
SYNOPSIS
paste [-s] [-d list] file ...
DESCRIPTION
The paste utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files, replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a
single tab character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output. If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files
still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source of empty lines.
The options are as follows:
-d list Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline characters instead of the default tab. The characters in list
are used circularly, i.e., when list is exhausted the first character from list is reused. This continues until a line from the
last input file (in default operation) or the last line in each file (using the -s option) is displayed, at which time paste
begins selecting characters from the beginning of list again.
The following special characters can also be used in list:
newline character
tab character
\ backslash character
Empty string (not a null character).
Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the character itself.
-s Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line order. The newline character of every line except the
last line in each input file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by the -d option.
If '-' is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly,
for each instance of '-'.
EXIT STATUS
The paste utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
List the files in the current directory in three columns:
ls | paste - - -
Combine pairs of lines from a file into single lines:
paste -s -d '
' myfile
Number the lines in a file, similar to nl(1):
sed = myfile | paste -s -d '
' - -
Create a colon-separated list of directories named bin, suitable for use in the PATH environment variable:
find / -name bin -type d | paste -s -d : -
SEE ALSO cut(1), lam(1)STANDARDS
The paste utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.
HISTORY
A paste command appeared in Version 32V AT&T UNIX.
BSD June 25, 2004 BSD