1. Shell Programming and Scripting

How do I remove or add leading zeroa from a variable. To make variable 10 characters long when adding zeros. (6 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All I want to delete trailing zeros from varible. ex: if variable value is 1234.567000 result as 1234.567 if variable has 1234.0000 result as 1234 if variable as abcd.fgh result as abcd.fgh Can somone give me a solution using awk? (16 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I would like to trim the following input. My condition is as long as there's a zero on the left of the number, remove the zeros. Can anybody help me by using sed or awk ? Eg: 0011 => change to => 11 0333 => change to => 333 4444 => No change => 4444 (13 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

We have a large number of oracle database related scripts that utilize the environment variables $ORACLE_SID and $DBNAME. In a single instance database the $ORACLE_SID is the same as the database name $DBNAME. So we have simply set DBNAME = $ORACLE_SID. However, now that we are clustering with RAC,... (5 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

So, I can't figure out how to do a previous question with printf, so I'm taking a different approach. Suppose I have a set of numbers: 1200,135.000000,12.30100,3212.3200,1.759403,,1230,101.101010,100.000000 I want to remove all trailing zeroes after the decimal, and, if it ends up orphaned,... (8 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have a simple request but can't find the answer. I want to remove trailing zeros, and in some cases the fullstops, from the input data. Example of input file: FR002_15.000_20.000 SD475_5.000_10.500 FG5647_12.250_15.500 BH2463_30.555_32.000 Desired output file would be: ... (10 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I haven't needed to do any shell based editing for nearly 20 years, and no amount of searching around has found me a solution to this very simple problem :-( I have a csv file. Some lines have three commas at the end. This means the invoice hasn't been paid. I'd like to use sed / grep... (4 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have been given a shell script that I need to amend. To do the following extract the filename from the flag file by removing the .flag extension. # Local variables # Find if the flag files exists MASK=coda_mil2*.flag # Are there any files? bookmark="40" fileFound=0 ls -1... (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have been trying to remove empty lines and lines just filled with spaces. I have used the following command which does work. sed -i "/^\s*$/d" Except it leaves one single trailing line at the very end of the file. For the life of me I cant figure out why I cant remove that last trailing... (2 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hi, I am trying to remove trailing zeros from numbers in a csv file. CSV Input : 0.5000,abc,2.00,2.400,285.850,285a.850,205.180800,mno000,a0b0,2.860 Expected Output : .5,abc,2,2.4,285.85,285a.850,205.1808,mno000,a0b0,2.86 Can you please help. Thanks. (11 Replies)