I've been told that sed is a "Turing complete" language, whatever the bleep that means... so programmatically speaking, you could do the whole thing in sed.
Good morning,
Novice scripter in Unix here, and I've run into and sed task I can't quite wrap my head around. I'm pulling my hair out fast enough as it is and thought I would go to the knowledge bank.
I have a sorted file that I'm trying to trim down by deleting any line whose first few... (2 Replies)
I have a file with a set of insert statements some of which have a single column value that crosses multiple lines causing the statement to fail in sql*plue. Can someone help me with a sed script to replace the new lines with chr(10)?
here is an example:
insert into mytable(id, field1, field2)... (3 Replies)
I have a file that contains the following lines
the brown quick fox
jumped over
the white laze dog
0123456789
I wanted to put the contents of this file into a variable so I used this code:
VAR_LIST=`cat $2`
where $2 is the file name passed as an argument to the script
If I... (3 Replies)
Good Morning/Afternoon All,
I am having some trouble creating a variable called "total" to display the sum of the values in a specific field, $6 for example.
The data I am working on is in the following form:
John Doe:(555) 555-5555:1:2:3
Jane Doe:(544) 444-5556:4:5:6
Moe Doe:(654)... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I would like to ask for help with csh script.
An example of an input in .txt file is below, the number of lines varies from file to file and I have 2 or 3 columns with values. I would like to read all the values (probably one by one) and set them to independent unique variables that... (7 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)
from the CLI on a Mac, if you type networksetup -listallnetworkservices then you get results in a multi-line paragraph that look something like this:
networksetup -listallnetworkservices
An asterisk (*) denotes that a network service is disabled.
Wi-Fi
Display Ethernet
Bluetooth DUN... (7 Replies)
Hello Gurus,
I have a multiple pipe separated files which have records going over multiple Lines. End of line separator is \n and records going over multiple lines have <CR> as separator. below is example from one file.
1|ABC DEF|100|10
2|PQ
RS
T|200|20
3| UVWXYZ|300|30
4| GHIJKL|400|40... (7 Replies)