11-17-2009
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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi everyone
I have this script that appends a line to a file to log the running status of an application. I need to write another script to run as a scheduled job in cron to trim the first x number of lines of this file.
Could someone give me an idea how to do this?
Regards (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: alwayslearningunix
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am trying to find a script command that will let me trim leading and trailing space from a string. I have coded a SQL Select and sending the output to a file. Later I am parsing the file and reading each field. The problem is that each field uses the same size as the DB2 type it was defined... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: fastgoon
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3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
I want to trim +with leading zero's with amount fields.I know using awk for trimming leading zeros with +,but I want get the entire row itself.
cat file_name |awk -F " " '{printf "%14.4f%f\n",$4}'
ex:
10 xyz bc +00000234.4500
20 yzx foxic +002456.000
Expexted
10 xyz bc... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: mohan705
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4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
How can I remove the unwanted spaces in the line.
123456 789 ABC DEF. - I wanna remove the sapces in this line, I need the output 123456789ABCDEF.
Pls help me...... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: sharif
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi have output as
i have trim of lines before CREATE statement and lins after last ")"
any idea how to achieve it ? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: crackthehit007
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
My file looks like this:
But I would like to 'trim' all sequences to the same lenght 32 characters, keeping intact all the identifier (>GHXCZCC01AJ8CJ)
Would it be possible to use awk to perform this task? (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Xterra
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I have a small issue with my shell script, I call a sql query from it and the output of the query is a Varchar2 data of approx 100 chars. But while printing the data on the console, only 80 chars are printed. The same thing happens even while redirecting the output to a file, only 80... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: vinayakawasthi
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi I need to trim white spaces from strings in a file.
Input file is like this:
1_rrc_CatalogGroups.csv = 607
1_rrc_Sales_TopCatalogGroups.csv = 4
1_rrc_Sales_CatalogEntries_CatalogGroup_Rel.csv = 7
Need to trim space before and after = symbol.
This is my script:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: sukhdip
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi i have a log file
P12345_15728710:DEBUG:Begin
P12345_15728710:DEBUG:Being
P12345_15729310:DEBUG:GetAgen
P12345_15726510:DEBUG:end
i want to trim this file and i want like this
15728710
15728710
15729310
15726510
i tried sed ..but not working..
sed "s/.*P12345__ \(.*\)... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: navsan420
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
My files look like this
I need to remove the sequence GGGAAA and anything before that
I also need to remove the sequence AGCCCTA and anything after that
So I will end up with something like this
The left side is done but I cannot get the right side correctly. I would like to use... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Xterra
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SDIFF(1) User Commands SDIFF(1)
NAME
sdiff - side-by-side merge of file differences
SYNOPSIS
sdiff [OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2
DESCRIPTION
Side-by-side merge of file differences.
-o FILE --output=FILE
Operate interactively, sending output to FILE.
-i --ignore-case
Consider upper- and lower-case to be the same.
-E --ignore-tab-expansion
Ignore changes due to tab expansion.
-b --ignore-space-change
Ignore changes in the amount of white space.
-W --ignore-all-space
Ignore all white space.
-B --ignore-blank-lines
Ignore changes whose lines are all blank.
-I RE --ignore-matching-lines=RE
Ignore changes whose lines all match RE.
--strip-trailing-cr
Strip trailing carriage return on input.
-a --text
Treat all files as text.
-w NUM --width=NUM
Output at most NUM (default 130) print columns.
-l --left-column
Output only the left column of common lines.
-s --suppress-common-lines
Do not output common lines.
-t --expand-tabs
Expand tabs to spaces in output.
--tabsize=NUM
Tab stops are every NUM (default 8) print columns.
-d --minimal
Try hard to find a smaller set of changes.
-H --speed-large-files
Assume large files and many scattered small changes.
--diff-program=PROGRAM
Use PROGRAM to compare files.
-v --version
Output version info.
--help Output this help.
If a FILE is `-', read standard input. Exit status is 0 if inputs are the same, 1 if different, 2 if trouble.
AUTHOR
Written by Thomas Lord.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for sdiff is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and sdiff programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info diff
should give you access to the complete manual.
diffutils 2.8.7-cvs January 2008 SDIFF(1)