1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi , I need to remove the 5th character of column1 and print the rest. Can anybody give some advice? Input: 0001c xx 0001r gg jj 0002y vv 0002p kk 0003q gg ll 0003v tt 0003t gg pp kk Output: 0001 xx 0001 gg jj (9 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

hey champs, i have a files, whose contents are as follows, abcdefghijk lmnopqrstuv .............. .............. i want to replace every other 3rd character to some specified character. let here in this file i want to replace each 3rd character to z. abzdezghzjk lmzopzrszuv... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to replace all after 4 character at line? & convert to upper case ? google.com -> GOOG (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a file with "@" in every line fdgfgddfg@sfsdfdsf@dfdfd@@vfdfsdfd@ sfsdfs@sdfd@gfhfgh@@ddffg@sdf@ srfgtfsdfs@sdfertrd@eergfhfgh@@ddffg@sdf@ wttrtrt@sdfd@sdfdf@@sdfdfds@@@ I need to remove all the fourth and onwards occurences of "@". so my final o/p would be fdgfgddfg@sfsdfdsf@dfdfd@... (7 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I hope someone can share there scripting fu on my problem, I would like to delete the 3rd character from a random length of string starting from the end Example Output Hope you can help me.. Thanks in advance.. (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All! I trying to execute this perl script to extract a particular field in a text file, luckily it works. But, right now I would like to extract 3 more fields in the text file but couldnt get the right syntax on how to do it. command is: perl -pe '$_ = (split(//)) . "\n"' TestDoc.txt... (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to find/grep the 5th and 6th position character (TX) of a word in a file. I tried to do grep "....TX" file The output gives me everything in the file with TX in it. I only need the output with the TX in the 5th and 6th position of the word. Any idea Example: test1 car... (5 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi , I am looking for a function which will do the following. 1. I have a variable which will hold few special chracter like SPECIAL_CHARS="& ;"2. I have an escape character. ESCAPE_CHAR="\"3. Now when I passed some string in the function it will return the same string but now it will... (8 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello to all, I have the following text where columns are separated by spaces. I want to have the 3rd column separating 3 strings with 2 "_" in the format below: LeftSring_CentralString_RightString So, in 3rd column I want to replace all "_" with "-", except the first and last "_" The... (5 Replies)