1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a csv file with lines like the followings 123456,"ABC CO., LTD","XXX" 789012,"DEF LIMITED", "XXX" before I bcp this file to database, the comma in "CO.," need to be removed first. My script is cat <filename> | sed 's/"CO.,"/"CO."/g' but it doesn't work. Can anyone here able to... (2 Replies)

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Hi All, I have a tab delimited file where each of the strings have double quotes. The problem is that I have records which are in the following format: "TEXAS" ""HOUSTON"" "123" "" "2625-39-39" ""MAINE"" "" "456" "I" "3737-39-82" I would have to output... (3 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a requirement to replace the comma's inside the double quotes. The comma's inside the double quotes will get changed dynamically. Input Record: "Washington, DC,Prabhu,aju",New York Output Record: "Washington| DC|Prabhu|aju",New York I tried with the below command but it... (3 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

The below code is to convert csv file to pipe delimited. It replaces comma with pipe if it is not in double quotes; If comma is in double quotes it doesnot replace the comma with a pipe. The code works fine except it eat away the double quotes in the output file. BEGIN... (6 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Unix Gurus.. I am new to Unix. Please help me. The file I am getting is as follows: Input File "2011-07-06 03:53:23","0","I","NOT SET ",,,,"123985","SAW CUT CONCRETE SLAB 20"THICK",,"98.57","","EACH","N" "2011-07-06 03:53:23","0","I","NOT SET ",,,,"204312","ARMAFLEX-1 3/8 X... (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a csv data file : A,B,C,D,"A,B",E,"GG,H" E,F,G,H,I,J,"S,P" I need to replace all "," with "|" except the ones between double quotes i.e A|B|C|D|"A,B"|E|"GG,H" E|F|G|H|I|J|"S,P" CAn someone assist? (8 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I'm unable to load the data using sql loader where there are double quotes within the double quotes As these are optionally enclosed by double quotes. Sample Data : "221100",138.00,"D","0019/1477","44012075","49938","49938/15043000","Television - 22" Refurbished - Airwave","Supply... (6 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have file with are delimited by pipe(|) symbol, I wanted those to be removed except the ones which are enclosed in double quotes. If your quote file is: |Life is |Beautiful"|"Indeed life |is beautiful too|"|"But unix is fun| is not"|" It should return: Life is Beautiful"|"Indeed life is... (1 Reply)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have file with are delimited by pipe(|) symbol, I wanted those to be removed except the ones which are enclosed in double quotes. If your quote file is: |Life is |Beautiful"|"Indeed life |is beautiful too|"|"But unix is fun| is not"|" It should return: Life is Beautiful"|"Indeed life is... (9 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have a .csv file and when opened in notepad looks like this gggg,nnnn,"last,first","llll""",nnn So, Here I would like the ouput as below gggg,nnnn,"last,first","llll",nnn i.e replace all two double quotes into one. How could I do that? This file is being processed by another... (5 Replies)