my input file contains thousands of lines like below
234A dept of education
9788 dept of commerce
8677 dept of engineering
How do i add a delimeter ':' after FIRST 4 CHARACTERS in a line
234A:dept of education
9788:dept of commerce
8677:dept of engineering (7 Replies)
Hello,
in my script i have this lines of code in a while cycle:
..
let j=i+1
t_prod_$i = `cat myfile.csv | grep world | cut -d ";" -f$j`
let i+=1
...
So if i try an echo $t_prod_$i at the end of the cycle i cannot see
the right value obtained by `cat myfile.csv | grep world |... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a variable $ID=40 and I need to build a string like
40 40 40 40 40 40
so repeating ID 'n' times separated by spaces.
Any help?
Thanks
Sarah (2 Replies)
Hello,
Trying to concatenate the following using bourne shell:
# !/bin/bash
# this works in bash shell e.g. get the results I am expecting
fnTmp=C$cindex.$station_0.$station_1.$station_3.$ts.tmp
#
# under !/bin/sh
# the results are not the same
Any assistance would be... (8 Replies)
#! /bin/csh
set tt=12345_UMR_BH452_3_2.txt
set rr=`echo $tt | cut -d_ -f1`
set rr1=welcome
set ff=$rr $rr1
echo $ff
why $ff returned only 12345 and not 12345welcome? thanks (2 Replies)
Hi all, I'm trying to build a variable name automatically through a for loop for a script I'm working on, basically I want to build the variables named: $JVM_HOME0 or $JVM_HOME1 so that I can loop through some file copy/deletes and a server restart once completed. With the code below, I get this... (3 Replies)
Hi there,
I'm writing a basic script where I want to make a string of 2 numeric fields from a file, which I have done, but the behavior is rather confusing.
I have a file of random values such as:
1 2
3 4
5 6
7 8
9 10
and my awk code is:
BEGIN { FS = " " }
{ str = str $1 $2 }
END {... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I was trying to work on a file which had the following data format
1 hi
1 this
1 is
1 john
2 hello
3 test
3 case
the expected output file is the below
1 hi, this, is, john
2 hello
3 test, case
I tried using awk or while read, but I couldnt... (13 Replies)
I have a script which is migrated from AIX to Linux & now while running it is no able to concatenate string values
The string concatenation step under while loop is not displaying desired result
Please find below the piece of code:
while read EXT_FILE ; do
EXT_FILE=$EXT_FILE.ext.sent
echo... (7 Replies)