Hello,
I have what is probably a simple task in text manipulation, but I just can't wrap my brain around it.
I have a text file that looks something like the following. Note that some have middle initials in the first field and some don't.
john.r.smith:john.smith@yahoo.com... (4 Replies)
Hello,
say suppose i am processing an file emp.dat the field of which are
deptno empno empname etc
now say suppose i want to change the file to emp.lst then how can i do it? Here i what i attempted but in vain
BEGIN{
system("sort emp.dat > emp.lst")
FILENAME="emp.lst"
}
{
print... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I'm running a script on AIX to process lines in a file. I need to enclose the second column in quotation marks and write each line to a new file. I've come up with the following:
#!/bin/ksh
filename=$1
exec >> $filename.new
cat $filename | while read LINE
do
echo $LINE | awk... (2 Replies)
I have a 3-column data file, for which I wish to print certain parts of $3
PHI PSI A(x)
-177.5 -177.5 1.0625
-177.5 -172.5 0.55
-177.5 -167.5 0.0478125
-177.5 -162.5 0
-177.5 -157.5 0.284375
-177.5 -152.5 0.187188
-177.5 -147.5 0.236875
-177.5 -142.5 0.383438
-177.5 ... (3 Replies)
Input File:
1234, 2345,abc
1,24141,gw
222,rff,sds
2232145,sdsd,121
Output file to be generated:
000001234,2345,abc
000000001,24141,gw
000000222,rff,sds
002232145,sdsd,121
i.e; the first column is padded to get 9 digits.
I tried with following: (1 Reply)
Input File:
1234, 2345,abc
1,24141,gw
222,rff,sds
2232145,sdsd,121
Output file to be generated:
000001234,2345,abc
000000001,24141,gw
000000222,rff,sds
002232145,sdsd,121
i.e; the first column is padded to get 9 digits.
I tried with following: (3 Replies)
Hello,
I extracted a list of files in a directory with the command ls . However this is not my computer, so the ls functionality has been revamped so that it gives the filesizes in front like this :
This is the output of ls command : I stored the output in a file filelist
1.1M... (5 Replies)
I have one input file ABC.txt and one output DEF.txt. After the ABC is processed and created output, I want to rename ABC.txt to ABC.orig and DEF to ABC.txt. Currently when I am doing this, it does not process the input file as it cannot read and write to the same file. How can I achieve this?
... (12 Replies)
hello All, I'm new to AWK programming and learned myself few things to process a file and deal with duplicate lines, but I got into a scenario which makes me clueless to handle. Here is the scenario..
Input file:
user role
----- ----
AAA add
AAA delete
BBB delete
CCC delete
DDD ... (10 Replies)
Hi - I want to interrogate information about my poker hands, sessions are all recorded in a text file in a particular format. Each hand starts with the string <PokerStars> followed by a unique hand reference and other data like date/time. There is then all the information about each hand. My first... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: rbeech23
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xmlstarlet
XMLSTARLET(1) xmlstarlet Manual XMLSTARLET(1)NAME
xmlstarlet - command line XML/XSLT toolkit
SYNOPSIS
xmlstarlet [<options>] [<command>] [<cmd-options>]
INTRODUCTION
XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) which can be used to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files us-
ing simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for plain text files using UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc commands.
This set of command line utilities can be used by those who deal with many XML documents on UNIX shell command prompt as well as for auto-
mated XML processing with shell scripts.
OPTIONS --version
Display the version of xmlstarlet.
--help Display help.
COMMANDS
Type: xml <command> --help <ENTER> for command help
Available commands include:
ed (or edit)
Edit/update XML document(s).
sel (or select)
Select data or query XML document(s) (XPATH, etc).
tr (or transform)
Transform XML documents(s) using XSLT.
val (or validate)
Validate XML document(s) (well-formed/DTD/XSD/RelaxNG).
fo (or format)
Format XML document(s).
el (or elements)
Display element structure of XML document.
c14n (or canonic)
XML canonicalization.
ls (or list)
List directory as XML.
esc (or escape)
Escape special XML characters.
unesc (or unescape)
Unescape special XML characters.
pyx (or xmln)
Convert XML into PYX format (based on ESIS - ISO 8879).
p2x (or depyx)
Convert PYX into XML.
REFERENCES
XMLStarlet is a command line toolkit to query/edit/check/transform XML documents (for more information see http://xmlstar.source-
forge.net/).
AUTHOR
Mikhail Grushinskiy.
XMLSTARLET(1)
10-23-2009
