Break one line to many lines using awk
The below code works but i want to implement without combining field 2 and 3 and then splitting i would like to do this in one command
instead of writing multiple commands and creating multiple lines.
nawk -F"|" '{print $1,$2SUBSEP$3}' OFS="|" file >... (16 Replies)
It sounds a bit confusing but what I have is a text file like the example below (without the Line1, Line2, Line3 etc. of course) and I want to move every group of characters into a new line after each space.
Example of text file;
line1 .digg-widget-theme2 ul { background: rgb(0, 0, 0) none... (7 Replies)
hey guys,
I tried searching but most 'search and replace' questions are related to one liners.
Say I have a file to be replaced that has the following:
$ cat testing.txt
TESTING
AAA
BBB
CCC
DDD
EEE
FFF
GGG
HHH
ENDTESTING
This is the input file: (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have the following data:
This this DT 0.99955 0 4
is be VBZ 1 5 7
sentence sentence NN 0.916667 8 16
one one NN 0.545078 17 20
. . Fp 1 20 21
This this DT 0.99955 22 26
is be VBZ 1 27 29
the the DT 1 30 33
second 2 JJ 0.930556 34 40
sentence sentence NN 0.916667 41 49... (1 Reply)
I need to break the line after every 3rd semi colon(;) using Unix shell scripting
Input.txt
ABC;DEF;JHY;LKU;QWE;BVF;RGHY;
Output.txt
ABC;DEF;JHY;
LKU;QWE;BVF;
RGHY; (1 Reply)
This is actually a KSH under Unix System Services (Z/OS), but hoping I can get a standard AIX/KSH solution to work...
I have a very large, single line file in Windows, that we download via FTP, with the "SITE WRAP" option, into a Z/OS file with an LRECL of 200. This essentially breaks the single... (4 Replies)
Hello all,
I have a large csv file where there are four types of rows I need to merge into one row per person, where there is a column for each possible code / type of row, even if that code/row isn't there for that person.
In the csv, a person may be listed from one to four times... (9 Replies)
GM,
I have an issue at work, which requires a simple solution. But, after multiple attempts, I have not been able to hit on the code needed.
I am assuming that sed, awk or even perl could do what I need.
I have an application that adds extra blank page feeds, for multiple reports, when... (7 Replies)
When your data is consistent it is easy to use awk with multiple lines like this. Can we please make this portable so I can use this in both RHEL and AIX?
awk '{RS="/directory1" } $7 ~ /drwxr-xr-x/ {print $1 " " $7}' file
What do I do when the data is not consistent? When your data is not... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: cokedude
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.16.3 2010-06-11 SHELL-QUOTE(1)