Hi
I have a file that looks like the following:
Name1 aaa bbbb
Name1 ffd hhghg
Name1 dffg ghhhh
Name2 rtrt dfff
Name2 rrtfr tgtt
Name2 dsddf gfggf
Name2 ffffg gfgf
NAme3 fdff ghhgh
Is it possible to format it so that a number... (2 Replies)
I have file with 20 fields and its pipe delimiter. I need to remove the 18th field along with pipe delimiter that seperates 17th and 18th field. In turn that means i want to make it now a file with only 19 fields. Can some body let me know how ican remove the 18th field from the whole file? (5 Replies)
I have a file with millions of rows that I need to add a delimiter and a new field with a zero to the end of each row. (its too big to open and do a find and replace regex)
I'm looking for the next line '\n' and need to replace it with a Unit Separator (hex \037) 0 \n.
I've tried the... (2 Replies)
The typical line of the input file is as follows,
123|abcde|"xyz|mn"|ghelosa|3455hello|
The delimiter is |. I need to change it to another delimiter, say ~. For the above line, the output should be:
123~abcde~xyz|mn~ghelosa~3455hello~
The challenge is when | appears in a field, it... (2 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
a.txt
a b c 1 e e e e e
a b c 2 e e e e e
the output is
a b c 1 e e e e e
a 00b c 2 e e e e e
when 4th field = '2', then add '00' in the front of 2nd field value.
Thanks (9 Replies)
Hi ,
I have extract a single field from the 2nd row of a file of which the format is as given below
"Field1","Field2","Field3",...,"Field17",...
I need to cut Field17 as such (no quotes required)..
I give the command
head -2 file_name | tail -1 | cut -d "," -f17
But the output is... (2 Replies)
Dear All,
1.txt (tab in between each value in a line)
a b c
a b c
a c d
you can see below, why with ~ i can output with tab, but = cannot?
# awk -F'\t' '$2 ~ /b/' 1
a b c
a b c
# awk -F'\t' '$2 = "b"' 1
a b c
a b c
a b d
... (1 Reply)
Hi
I have a asterisk (*) delimited file and there are some fields which contain data having asterisk , now i want to double quote the fileds which contain data with asterisk
Ex:
input file
ID*NAME*EMAIL
1*BILL*BILL@AOL.com
2*J*OY*JOY@msn.com
in the 2nd record JOY has a asterisk value in... (11 Replies)
We have a csv file as mentioned below and the requirement is to change the date format in file as mentioned below.
Current file (file.csv)
----------------------
empname,date_of_join,dept,date_of_resignation
ram,08/09/2015,sales,21/06/2016
"akash,sahu",08/10/2015,IT,21/07/2016
... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: gopal.biswal
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cut
CUT(1) User Commands CUT(1)NAME
cut - remove sections from each line of files
SYNOPSIS
cut OPTION... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Print selected parts of lines from each FILE to standard output.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-b, --bytes=LIST
select only these bytes
-c, --characters=LIST
select only these characters
-d, --delimiter=DELIM
use DELIM instead of TAB for field delimiter
-f, --fields=LIST
select only these fields; also print any line that contains no delimiter character, unless the -s option is specified
-n (ignored)
--complement
complement the set of selected bytes, characters or fields
-s, --only-delimited
do not print lines not containing delimiters
--output-delimiter=STRING
use STRING as the output delimiter the default is to use the input delimiter
-z, --zero-terminated
line delimiter is NUL, not newline
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
Use one, and only one of -b, -c or -f. Each LIST is made up of one range, or many ranges separated by commas. Selected input is written
in the same order that it is read, and is written exactly once. Each range is one of:
N N'th byte, character or field, counted from 1
N- from N'th byte, character or field, to end of line
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GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 CUT(1)