If you are sure there is only one date field per line in field 18 that needs to be changed, or any other field that contains a date, needs to be changed as well, you can could use this:
But like vgersh99 says, awk is more suited for the task. It is more accurate since it will only modify field 18.
It sounds so easy to do.
I have a file thats laid out like this..
number text text text text (etc about 15 times with various text fields)
I want to take the first field, "number", subtract 100 from it, and then put it back in the file. a simple little manipulation of the first field in... (4 Replies)
I need to achieve the following.....I seached the forum but could not find it...
This is I have in a file...
"CH","TIA","10/27/2006",000590
I need the date in the third field to be attached to fileas 20061027_test.txt
How do I do it. (6 Replies)
HI,
I'm comparing my file date with the system date and if both the dates are equal I'm doing some operation. I use two variables for these two dates. I use the following command in my query. if ....
But here the current date $cd shows 01 and filedate $fdate shows 1. The file is created on 1 of ... (6 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
How to minus 15 minuets from current system time.
For example if current time is " Wed Oct 14 12:12:38 BST 2009", i need "Wed Oct 14 11:57:38 BST 2009"
Thanks (2 Replies)
How can i print a future time, so i get current time by date "+%H:M" but how can i say add 20 minutes to the current time and display as I have just done for current time. (1 Reply)
I have a file with a field containing the following:
"7/3/2009 7:07:12 PM","xxxx"
I need to be able to split this field up into two into a different format with the time being converted into 24 hour:
so that i can get the following:
"20090307","19:07:12","xxxx" (8 Replies)
In my shell script I take date as a input parameter from command line in the format "21 Oct 2011" which would be
date +'%d %b %Y'
Now i need to do two things here.
1) Validate the date entered by user
2) Calculate yesterday's date from the input. So in this case it should be: "20 Oct 2011"... (9 Replies)
I have a comma separated file containing numbers, I would like to read the file and divide each number by 1024 and create an output file.
Input file :
50312.00,3434.05, ,3433.34,124344.00,434343.00, , ,
Output file:
49.13,3.35,3.35,0,12.05,424.16,0,0
Please click this link: How to... (2 Replies)
I have a .CSV file (file.csv) whose data are all enclosed in double quotes. Sample format of the file is as below:
column1,column2,column3,column4,column5,column6, column7, Column8, Column9, Column10
"12","B000QRIGJ4","4432","string with quotes, and with a comma, and colon: in... (3 Replies)
Hallo Team
I can perform the task manually but i would like to automate this process. ok here goes. I have a perl script which runs every Wednesday every week and the name of the script is check_19.pl
This is how the script looks like :
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#use strict;
use DBI;
#... (1 Reply)
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set_field_opts
form_field_opts(3CURSES) Curses Library Functions form_field_opts(3CURSES)NAME
form_field_opts, set_field_opts, field_opts_on, field_opts_off, field_opts - forms field option routines
SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -lform-lcurses [ library... ]
#include <form.h>
int set_field_opts(FIELD *field, OPTIONS opts);
int set_field_opts(FIELD *field, OPTIONS opts);
int field_opts_on(FIELD *field, OPTIONS opts);
int field_opts_off(FIELD *field, OPTIONS opts);
OPTIONS field_opts(FIELD *field);
DESCRIPTION
set_field_opts() turns on the named options of field and turns off all remaining options. Options are boolean values that can be OR-ed
together.
field_opts_on() turns on the named options; no other options are changed.
field_opts_off() turns off the named options; no other options are changed.
field_opts() returns the options set for field.
O_VISIBLE The field is displayed.
O_ACTIVE The field is visited during processing.
O_PUBLIC The field contents are displayed as data is entered.
O_EDIT The field can be edited.
O_WRAP Words not fitting on a line are wrapped to the next line.
O_BLANK The whole field is cleared if a character is entered in the first position.
O_AUTOSKIP Skip to the next field when the current field becomes full.
O_NULLOK A blank field is considered valid.
O_STATIC The field buffers are fixed in size.
O_PASSOK Validate field only if modified by user.
RETURN VALUES
set_field_opts, field_opts_on and field_opts_off return one of the following:
E_OK The function returned successfully.
E_SYSTEM_ERROR System error.
E_CURRENT The field is the current field.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|MT-Level |Unsafe |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO curses(3CURSES), forms(3CURSES), attributes(5)NOTES
The header <form.h> automatically includes the headers <eti.h> and <curses.h>.
SunOS 5.11 31 Dec 1996 form_field_opts(3CURSES)