Hi All
I have a field being returned from the DB that when opened in Vi shows a ^M before the rest of the field is displayed on the next line.
I need it so that the only newline character is the end of the line since I need to transform my file into an Excel report.
Thus my idea is to... (1 Reply)
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Hi All
I have a field being returned from the DB that when opened in Vi shows a ^M before the rest of the field is displayed on the next line.
I need it so that the only newline character is the end of the... (14 Replies)
Hi,
How to replace any character in a file with a newline character using sed ..
Ex:
To replace ',' with newline
Input:
abcd,efgh,ijkl,mnop
Output:
abcd
efgh
ijkl
mnop
Thnx in advance.
Regards,
Sasidhar (5 Replies)
Greetings!
Can we automate the process of removing a newline char from selected rows in a fixed width file using a shell?
Input is like
abcd1234
xyzd1234
abcd
a1b2c3d4
abcd1234
xyzd1234
xx
abcd1234
Expected output -
abcd1234xyzd1234
abcda1b2c3d4abcd1234xyzd1234
xxabcd1234
... (3 Replies)
I would like to add a line to the end of a single column text file. How do I go about doing that?
Input:
BEGIN
1
2
3
Output:
BEGIN
1
2
3
END
Thanks! (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have 4 big files which contains one big line containing formatted character records, I need to format each file in such way that each File will have 95 Characters per line. Last line of each file will have newline character at end.
Before:-
File Name:- File1.dat
102 121340560... (10 Replies)
Input eg:
Ouput Expected.
The #rd line had the unexpted new line, which need to be replaced with space.
I was planing to go with checking the length of each line using awk and if the length is less than the defeined limit, (12 in above case) will replace the newline with space.
... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: deepakwins
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paste
PASTE(1) BSD General Commands Manual PASTE(1)NAME
paste -- merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
SYNOPSIS
paste [-s] [-d list] file ...
DESCRIPTION
The paste utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files, replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a
single tab character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output. If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files
still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source of empty lines.
The options are as follows:
-d list Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline characters instead of the default tab. The characters in list
are used circularly, i.e., when list is exhausted the first character from list is reused. This continues until a line from the
last input file (in default operation) or the last line in each file (using the -s option) is displayed, at which time paste
begins selecting characters from the beginning of list again.
The following special characters can also be used in list:
newline character
tab character
\ backslash character
Empty string (not a null character).
Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the character itself.
-s Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line order. The newline character of every line except the
last line in each input file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by the -d option.
If '-' is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly,
for each instance of '-'.
EXIT STATUS
The paste utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
List the files in the current directory in three columns:
ls | paste - - -
Combine pairs of lines from a file into single lines:
paste -s -d '
' myfile
Number the lines in a file, similar to nl(1):
sed = myfile | paste -s -d '
' - -
Create a colon-separated list of directories named bin, suitable for use in the PATH environment variable:
find / -name bin -type d | paste -s -d : -
SEE ALSO cut(1), lam(1)STANDARDS
The paste utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.
HISTORY
A paste command appeared in Version 32V AT&T UNIX.
BSD June 25, 2004 BSD