Hi,
I need some help in knowing how I can append tabs at the end of each line...
The data looks something like this:
field1, field2, field3, field4
1 2
3 4 5
I have values in field1 and field 2 in the first row and I would like to append tab on field3 and field4 for the first row..and in... (6 Replies)
I trying to extract certain text from a csv file and then placing it into another csv file, but having problems getting the data to placed in one line with tab separated fields.
Basically would like to have text sent to interfaces.csv in one line seperated by tabs. As it currently places files... (6 Replies)
This works, but its messy. Any suggestions for a elegant solution? :-
me@myserver $ head zoneAttachOutfile
These packages installed on the source system are inconsistent with this system:
SUNWsmbac: version mismatch
(11.9.0,REV=2002.03.02.00.35)
... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am facing issues converting white spaces and tabs together in a file I am reading. Here is the command I am trying:
tr -s ' '@ | sort -t@ +1n filename
I guess the problem is that it is not converting the tabs to another delimiter. Also, I am supposed to accomplish this only using... (5 Replies)
Hello everyone!! Nice do be apart of your forum. I am not very good at unix and thats why i need your help i have this project where i have to simulate a grep command without using grep thought. I have to simulate
grep <parameters> <file>
grep <parameters> <file>
grep <parameters> <file>... (6 Replies)
I have to create some fixed width files using UNIX. The data source is an Oracle SQL query. If I use straight SQL and spool to a file everything comes out as expected.
Example Desired result (. indicate blank space):
V278814831..................................1743049591.10N... (6 Replies)
I'm having trouble getting my vimrc to work the way I want it. For some reason after I hit enter it is creating tabs instead of spaces like I would expect. Here is an example of what I am talking about. $ = newline, ^I = tab. On the line of struct EDGETAG* q; I hit enter and it created a tab... (2 Replies)
Hi! I have been struggling with a large file that has stray end of line characters.
I am working on a Mac (Lion). I mention this only because I have been mucking around with fixing my problem using sed, and I have learned far more than I wanted to know about Unix and Mac eol characters.
I... (1 Reply)
so i have a data file that has various lines which may or may not end with spaces or tabs.
data.file:
, \t \t
{sample} <spaces> <spaaces> several more spaces....
{"resemble"}, <nospaces>
Command i'm using:
sed -n 8p data.file | egrep "\],$|\],\ $"
or
egrep "\],$|\],\ $"... (1 Reply)
Heyas
I'm trying to read/display a file its content and put borders around it (tui-cat / tui-cat -t(ypwriter).
The typewriter-part is a 'bonus' but still has its own flaws, but thats for later.
So in some way, i'm trying to rewrite cat using bash and other commands.
But sadly it fails on... (2 Replies)
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unexpand
EXPAND(1) BSD General Commands Manual EXPAND(1)NAME
expand, unexpand -- expand tabs to spaces, and vice versa
SYNOPSIS
expand [-t tab1,tab2,...,tabn] [file ...]
unexpand [-a | -t tab1,tab2,...,tabn] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The expand utility processes the named files or the standard input writing the standard output with tabs changed into blanks. Backspace
characters are preserved into the output and decrement the column count for tab calculations. The expand utility is useful for pre-process-
ing character files (before sorting, looking at specific columns, etc.) that contain tabs.
The unexpand utility puts tabs back into the data from the standard input or the named files and writes the result on the standard output.
The following options are available:
-a (unexpand only.) By default, only leading blanks and tabs are reconverted to maximal strings of tabs. If the -a option is given,
then tabs are inserted whenever they would compress the resultant file by replacing two or more characters.
-t tab1,tab2,...,tabn
Set tab stops at column positions tab1, tab2, ..., tabn. If only a single number is given, tab stops are set that number of column
positions apart instead of the default number of 8.
ENVIRONMENT
The LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of expand and unexpand as described in environ(7).
EXIT STATUS
The expand and unexpand utilities exit 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
STANDARDS
The expand and unexpand utilities conform to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').
HISTORY
The expand command appeared in 3.0BSD.
BSD October 13, 2006 BSD