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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Count delimiter and replace Post 302464729 by dsubha on Wednesday 20th of October 2010 11:24:44 PM
Old 10-21-2010
Count delimiter and replace

Hi,
I have below sample data file. I want to count the delimiter no of times repeated and replace with new line characters. The new line characters appear somtimes in between of the records and end of the record:

input file:
Code:
jack;1500;manager;boston\n
jim;2000;\n
developer;texas\n
bob;5000;director\n
;atlanta\n

Expected output file:
Code:
jack;1500;manager;boston\n
jim;2000;developer;texas\n
bob;5000;director;atlanta\n

I am new to shell scripting. How can I achieve this. The parameter of script should be delimeter, file name and count repetition.

Thanks in advance.

-subha

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NAME
perror - describes a system or MySQL error code. SYNOPSIS
perror [OPTIONS] [ERRORCODE [ERRORCODE...]] DESCRIPTION
Can be used to display a description for a system error code, or an MyISAM/ISAM table handler error code. The error messages are mostly system dependent. OPTIONS
-?|--help Displays this help and exits. -I|--info Synonym for the above. -s|--silent Only print the error message -v|--verbose Print error code and message (default). -V|--version Displays version information and exits. EXAMPLE
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