If Franklin52's solution does not work, perhaps it is because there are always five fields (four tabs delimiting possibly empty fields). In that case, you could try:
Regards,
Alister
Last edited by alister; 04-11-2010 at 03:44 PM..
Reason: Fix erroneous suggestions
Hi All,
Please help me out with a script which checks whether a given file say abc.txt is in ASCII format and data is tab-delimited. If the condition doesn't satisfy then it should generate error code "100" for file not in ASCII format and "105" if it is not in tab-delimited format.
If the... (9 Replies)
Hi Experts
I am very new to perl and need to make a script using perl.
I would like to remove blanks in a text tab delimited file in in a specfic column range ( colum 21 to column 43) sample input and output shown below :
Input:
117 102 650 652 654 656
117 93 95... (3 Replies)
I have a large text-file with tab-delimited genetic data that looks like:
KSC112 KSC234 0 0 1 1 A G C T
I simply wan to delete the first column, but since the file has 600 000 columns, it is not possible with awk (seems to be limited at 32k columns).
Does anyone have an idea how to do this? (2 Replies)
Hi,
I do have a TAB delimted text file with the following format.
1 (- identifier of each group. this text is not present in the file only number)
1 3 4 65 56 WERTF
2 3 4 56 56 GHTYHU
3 3 5 64 23 VMFKLG
2
1 3 4 65 56 DGTEYDH
2 3 4 56 56 FJJJCKC
3 3 5 64 23 FNNNCHD
3
1 3 4 65 56 JDHJDH... (9 Replies)
Hello Gurus,
I have a text file containing nearly 12,000 tab delimited characters with 4000 rows. If the file size is small, excel can convert the text into coloumns. However, the file that I have is very big. Can some body help me in solving this problem?
The input file example,
... (6 Replies)
I want to add a new column to a tab delimited text file. It will be the first column and it will just be 1's. How do I go about doing that? Thanks! (1 Reply)
I have a text file that made using text editor in Ubuntu. However the text file is not being recognized as space or tab delimited, the formatting seems to be messed up. How can I convert the text file into tab delimited format? (3 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I have a tab deliminated file as below
myfile.txt
Local Group Memberships *Administrators *Guests
I need data in below format starting from 4th position.
myfile1.txt
Administrators Guests
the above one is just an example and there could... (15 Replies)
Hi, I have a rquirement in unix as below .
I have a text file with me seperated by | symbol and i need to generate a excel file through unix commands/script so that each value will go to each column.
ex:
Input Text file:
1|A|apple
2|B|bottle
excel file to be generated as output as... (9 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
dpkg-ruby
DPKG-RUBY(1) General Commands Manual DPKG-RUBY(1)NAME
dpkg-ruby - Utility to read a dpkg style db file, dpkg-awk clone
SYNOPSIS
dpkg-ruby [(-f|--file) filename] [(-d|--debug) ##] [(-s|--sort) list] [(-n|--numeric) list] [(-rs|--rec_sep) ??] '<fieldname>:<regex>' ...
-- <out_fieldname> ..
DESCRIPTION
dpkg-ruby Parses a dpkg status file(or other similarly formated file) and outputs the resulting records. It can use regex on the field
values to limit the returned records, and it can also be told which fields to output. As another option, it can sort the matched fields.
OPTIONS -f filename
--file filename
The file to parse. The default is /var/lib/dpkg/status.
-d [#]
--debug [#]
Each time this is specified, it increased the debug level.
-s field(s)
--sort field(s)
A space or comma separated list of fields to sort on.
-n field(s)
--numeric field(s)
A space or comma separated list of fields that should be interpreted as numeric in value.
-rs ??
--rec_sep ??
Output this string at the end of each output paragraph.
-h
--help Display some help.
fieldname
The fields from the file, that are matched with the regex given. The fieldnames are case insensitive.
out_fieldname
The fields from the file, that are outputted for each record. If the first field listed is begins with ^, then the list that fol-
lows are fields NOT to be outputted.
BUGS
Be warned that the author has only a shallow understanding of the dpkg packaging system, so there are probably tons of bugs in this pro-
gram.
This program comes with no warranties. If running this program causes fire and brimstone to rain down upon the earth, you will be on our
own.
This program accesses the dpkg database directly in places, querying for data that cannot be gotten via dpkg.
AUTHOR
Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>. This manual page are based on (or almost copy from :) dpkg-awk(1) manual written by Adam Heath <doo-
gie@debian.org>
DEBIAN Debian Utilities DPKG-RUBY(1)