Is there a simple way to select and replace characters based on character position in the line rather than as delimited columns?
I have input $FILE.1
And desire output $FILE.2
I've tried
which of course gives
Which obviously doesn't work because awk is manipulating fields instead of individual characters and separating them with a space. I suppose that I can measure field length and print the correct number of spaces to maintain position (using code similar to this) but if there's a way to manipulate characters based on position in the line I'd rather do that.
I'm working on formatting some attendance data to meet a vendors requirements to upload to their system. With some help on the forums here, I have the data close. But they've since changed what they want.
The vendor wants me to submit three fields to them. Field 1 is the studentid field,... (4 Replies)
I have a file with 32 fields each separated by ‘|”. I need to add a file date exactly in the format “ "20100120" “ as the 32nd field moving the existing 32nd field to 33. so the field I added should be 32nd and the 33rd field is the last field before I added the file date.
I know we can... (8 Replies)
Hi, I have a series of files (upwards of 500) the filename format is as follows
CC10-1234P1999.WGS84.p190, all in one directory.
Now the last three numeric characters, in this case 999, can be anything from 001 to 999.
I need to move some of them to a seperate directory, the ones I need to... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
I am looking for an awk script to do the following
Join the fields together only if the first 4 fields are same.
Can it be done with join function in awk??
a,b,c,d,8,,,
a,b,c,d,,7,,
a,b,c,d,,,9,
a,b,p,e,8,,,
a.b,p,e,,9,,
a,b,p,z,,,,9
a,b,p,z,,8,,
desired output:
... (1 Reply)
Hi experts,
I need to print the first field first then last two fields should come next and then i need to print rest of the fields.
Input :
a1,abc,jsd,fhf,fkk,b1,b2
a2,acb,dfg,ghj,b3,c4
a3,djf,wdjg,fkg,dff,ggk,d4,d5
Expected output:
a1,b1,b2,abc,jsd,fhf,fkk... (6 Replies)
I'm trying to compare 2 files for differences in a selct number of fields. When differnces are found it will write the whole record of the second file including appending '|C' out to a delta file. Each record will have 20 fields, but only want to do comparison of 1st 15 fields. The 1st field of... (7 Replies)
Hello
I have a file with this content
=============================================================
1, Het Juvenalis dilemma, Digital fortress, 1998
2, Het Bernini mysterie, Angels & demons, 2000
3, De Delta deceptie, Deception point, 2001
4, De Da Vinci code, The Da... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I receive a | delimited text file containing 63 columns. There is no delimiter at the end of the 63rd field, instead there would be a newline character at the end of the text in 63rd column. I wanted to retain this newline character at the end of the 63rd column, as it is desired newline... (1 Reply)
Hi
I have a file as below
<field1> <field2> <field3> ... <field_num1> <field_num2>
Trying to sort based on difference of <field_num1> and <field_num2> in desceding order and print all fields.
I tried this and it doesn't sort on the difference field .. Appreciate your help.
cat... (9 Replies)
Could you please advise what is the best way to edit a file without disrupting the spaces?
For example: I have within my file the value below, wherein I wanted to change VALUE2 to VALUETEST.
The total characters on the field of VALUE2 is 15 characters.
VALUE1|VALUE2<9 spaces>|VALUE3
but... (3 Replies)
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cut - remove sections from each line of files
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cut OPTION... [FILE]...
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Print selected parts of lines from each FILE to standard output.
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