awk is the best way to go. If you want you can also use the join command but both files have to be sorted on the common key which is, in my opinion, a disadvantage compared to awk.
Hi,
I have a file which has the contents as below :
07:38:36 EST
date 20041117
07:39:06 EST
07:00:29 EDT
date 20050504
07:25:16 EDT
07:00:40 EDT
date 20050505
07:23:12 EDT
I need to delete the new line character from all lines except 3rd,6th,9th etc. lines so that i get the output... (14 Replies)
Hello,
I have 2 files say
File 1 has
ABC
DEF
GHI
File 2 has
123
456
789
I need output as
ABC 123
DEF 456
GHI 789
I tried awk and sed but not able to get it in the right way. :confused:
Please help. Thanks (25 Replies)
Hi ,
I want to join two lines in a file, where the second line contain query string. if it doesn't contain that string i don't want to join
e.g.
Input file is as following:
name fame game
none none none
name fame game
cat eat mice
I need output file as
name fame game
none none... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I need the command to join 2 lines into one. I found lots of threads but none give me the sollution. Probably because unix scripting is one of my best features ;)
I got a logfile where line 2 needs to be joined with line 1, lines 4 needs to be joined with line 3 etc
If you need... (16 Replies)
Hi Guys,
Was trying to attempt the below using awk and sed, have no luck so far, so any help would be appreciated.
Current Text File: The first line has got an "\n", and the second line has got spaces/tabs then the word and "\n"
TIME SERVER/CLIENT TEXT... (6 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm excited to the part of unix.com forum, and noob to it.
I have an query, where I have an file and it contains data like this
use
thread
when
posting
do
no
I was expecting the result as
use thread
thread when
when posting
posting do
do no
use thread when
thread when... (6 Replies)
Hi - I have req to join broken lines and remove empty lines but should NOT be in one line. It has to be as is line by line. The challenge here is there is no end of line/start of line char.
thanks in advance
Source:-
2003-04-34024|04-10-2003|Claims|Claim|01-13-2003|Air Bag:Driver;... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file containing many records delimited by pipe (|).
Each record should contain 17 columnns/fields. there are some fields having fields less than 17.So i am extracting those records to a file using the below command
awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} NF !=17 {print}' feedfile.txt... (8 Replies)
Hello ,
I have three files :
sampleoutput1.txt has columns (in the following order) : hostname ; available patches , available packages
sampleoutput2.txt has columns (in the following order) : hostname ; patchwave ; BSID ; Application
sampleoutput3.txt has columns (in the following... (10 Replies)
Dear Community;
I need to join two files but I am facing issues.
1st file has multiple columns. Primary (1st) columns has unique values. There are other columns out of which some has non-ascii characters as well (other language).
Example File below:
1-1001JRL,BiRecurring... (5 Replies)