In a file, How do I replace a set number of characters in each line?
For example.... substitute the first 54 characters of each line with mv?
Thanks!
Lisa (8 Replies)
Hi
I have searched for a way to replace odd characters in a FOLDER NAME. All search-and-replace issues I have seen, only involves how to make search-and-replace on a FILE och with TEXT INSIDE a FILE. My problem is with the FOLDER NAME.
My case is this:
I have a couple of persons that every... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file in which i want to replace the charaters from position 3-5 with a particular string for the first line.
For ex
The file contains
abcdefghij
jkdsflsfkdk
908090900
i want to replace the characters 3-5 for the first line as 678
so, the file should look like
... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file which includes some French Characters and I want to change them to other characters like
À to À
 to Â
É to É
.....
.....
and so on.
I am tyring to use tr command like
tr ÀÂÉ ÀÂÉ < input file
But it does not work. Only... (2 Replies)
Hi, I have a series of files (upwards of 500) the filename format is as follows
CC10-1234P1999.WGS84.p190
each of this files is in a directory named for the file but excluding the extension.
Now the last three numeric characters, in this case 999, can be anything from 001 to 999, I need to... (3 Replies)
i need to replace the any special characters with escape characters like below.
test!=123-> test\!\=123
!@#$%^&*()-= to be replaced by
\!\@\#\$\%\^\&\*\(\)\-\= (8 Replies)
sed -e "s// /g" old.txt > new.txt
While I do know some control characters need to be escaped, can normal characters also be escaped and still work the same way? Basically I do not know all control characters that have a special meaning, for example, ?, ., % have a meaning and have to be escaped... (11 Replies)
Hi -
I have below in put to demo.txt
/test/xyz/ibcdownload.jsp
/test/xyz/pvxprogramtreeovermain.jsp
/test/xyz/jtfrsrsr$HtmlTag.jsp
/test/xyz/csdronumlov.jsp
/test/xyz/iecvaluereset.jsp
/test/xyz/ibecumpassignrole.jsp
/test/xyz/ozfoffermarketmain.jsp
output should be... (4 Replies)
I am using the below to random generate a password but I need to have 2 numeric characters and 6 alphabetic chars
head /dev/urandom | tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 | head -c 8 ; echo ''
6USUvqRB
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Any Help folks - Can the output be passed onto a sed command to... (9 Replies)
I have this fastq file:
@M04961:22:000000000-B5VGJ:1:1101:9280:7106 1:N:0:86
GGGGGGGGGGGGCATGAAAACATACAAACCGTCTTTCCAGAAATTGTTCCAAGTATCGGCAACAGCTTTATCAATACCATGAAAAATATCAACCACACCA
+test-1
GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGCCGGGGGFF,EDFFGEDFG,@DGGCGGEGGG7DCGGGF68CGFFFGGGG@CGDGFFDFEFEFF:30CGAFFDFEFF8CAF;;8... (10 Replies)
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igawk
IGAWK(1) Utility Commands IGAWK(1)NAME
igawk - gawk with include files
SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...
DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).
AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like
@include getopt.awk
in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.
OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.
EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk
@include getopt.awk
BEGIN {
while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
...
}
EOF
igawk -f test.awk
SEE ALSO gawk(1)
Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.
AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).
Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)