I came across a very good script to convert a comma seperated to pipe delimited file in this forum. the script serves most of the requirement but looks like it does not handle embedded double quotes and commas i.e if the input is like
The desired output should be
but the output is like
please suggest if it possible to modify the code such that it handles comma and double quotes in the substring.
Last edited by zaxxon; 05-11-2010 at 07:10 AM..
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Hi All,
I have space delimited file similar to the one as shown below.. I need to convert it as a pipe delimited, the values inside the pipe delimited file should be as highlighted...
AA ATIU2345098809 009697 005374
BB ATIU2345097809 005445 006518
CC ATIU9685098809 003215 003571
DD... (7 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a requirement where I need to go to a directory, list all the files that start with person* (for eg) & read the most recent file from the list of files.
While browsing through the forum, i found that the command ls -t will list the files. I am trying to generate the output... (1 Reply)
I have a file which was pipe delimited, I need to make it tab delimited. I tried with sed but no use
cat file | sed 's/|//t/g'
The above command substituted "/t" not tab in the place of pipe.
Sample file:
abc|123|2012-01-30|2012-04-28|xyz
have to convert to:
abc 123... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I have a large number of files which are written as csv (comma-separated values).
Does anyone know of simple sed/awk command do achieve this?
Thanks!
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Guess I asked this too soon. Found the... (0 Replies)
Hi All,
I am writing a shell script to extract oracle table into a pipe dilemited flat file. Below is my code and I have attached two files that I have abled to generate so far.
1. Table.txt ==> database extract file
2. flat.txt ==> pipe delimited after some manipulation of the original db... (5 Replies)
Hello ppl
I have a requirement to split (cut in unix) a file (A.txt) which is a pipe delimited file into A1.txt and A2.txt
Now I have to join (paste in unix) this A2.txt with external file A3.txt to form
output file A4.txt which should be CSV (comma separated file) so that third party can... (25 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)
Hi,
I am wanting to create a script that will construct a SQL statement based on a a space delimited string that it read from a config file.
Example of the SQL will be
For example, it will read a string like "AAA BBB CCC" and assign to a variable named IN_STRING.
I then concatenate... (2 Replies)
I have file in linux with comma delimited and string fields in double quotations ", I need to convert them to pipe delimiter please share your inputs.
Example:
Input:
"2017-09-30","ACBD,TVF","01234",NULL,18,NULL,"686091802","BANK OF ABCD, LIMITED, THE",790456
Output:
... (4 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
plan9-getflags
GETFLAGS(8) System Manager's Manual GETFLAGS(8)NAME
getflags, usage - command-line parsing for shell scripts
SYNOPSIS
getflags $*
usage [ progname ]
DESCRIPTION
Getflags parses the options in its command-line arguments according to the environment variable $flagfmt. This variable should be a list
of comma-separated options. Each option can be a single letter, indicating that it does not take arguments, or a letter followed by the
space-separated names of its arguments. Getflags prints an rc(1) script on standard output which initializes the environment variable
$flagx for every option mentioned in $flagfmt. If the option is not present on the command-line, the script sets that option's flag vari-
able to an empty list. Otherwise, the script sets that option's flag variable with a list containing the option's arguments or, if the
option takes no arguments, with the string 1. The script also sets the variable $* to the list of arguments following the options. The
final line in the script sets the $status variable, to the empty string on success and to the string usage when there is an error parsing
the command line.
Usage prints a usage message to standard error. It creates the message using $flagfmt, as described above, $args, which should contain the
string to be printed explaining non-option arguments, and $0, the program name (see rc(1)). If run under sh(1), which does not set $0, the
program name must be given explicitly on the command line.
EXAMPLE
Parse the arguments for leak(1):
flagfmt='b,s,f binary,r res,x width'
args='name | pid list'
if(! ifs=() eval `{getflags $*} || ~ $#* 0){
usage
exit usage
}
SOURCE
/src/cmd/getflags.c
/src/cmd/usage.c
SEE ALSO arg(3)GETFLAGS(8)