How to avoid the truncating of multiple spaces into a single space while reading a line from a file?
consider the small piece of code
content of example file
the output is like
the multiple spaces are getting truncated while reading, is there any way to avoid that??
I'm a Linux newb, I've been running a Debian Linux server for about a year now, and I've written some simple scripts to automate various things, but I still don't know much, and I forget what I learn as fast as I figure it out... Anyway, that really isn't important, I just want you to know that... (14 Replies)
I am reading a file and copying selected lines from the file into another using echo.
For eg:
while read line
do
if ((some logic to determine whether I need to copy the current line to another file))
then
echo $line > tempfile
fi
done<srcfile
The problem I have is the data in the file... (1 Reply)
I am searching while I await a response to this so if it has been asked already I apologize.
I have a file with lines in it that look like:
bob johnson email@email.org
I need it to look like:
bob:johnson:email@email.org
I am trying to use sed like this:
sed -e 's/ /:/g' file >... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I should read one character at a fixed position from each line of the file. So how ??? should be substituted in the code below:
while read line ; do
single_char=`???`
echo "$single_char"
done < $input_file (8 Replies)
I am trying to read a txt file and trying to translate multiples spaces into single spaces so the file is more organized, but whenever I try the command:
tr ' ' ' ' w.txt
The output is:
tr: extra operand `w.txt'
Try `tr --help' for more information.
Can someone please help? :wall:
... (2 Replies)
I have a file proc.txt:
if @debug = 1 then
message 'Start Processing ', @procname, dateformat(now(*), 'hh:mm:ss'), @julian type info to client;
end if;
/*
execute immediate with quotes
'insert into sys_suppdata (property, value, key_name)
location ''' || @supp_server || '.' ||... (5 Replies)
I am new to shell scripting and wished to get few things clarified.
While calling functions within shell script, output comes out as single line irrespective of the no of echos or newlines I tried within function +
the echo -e used to invoke function ( as instructed online) :
#!/bin/sh
inc() {... (1 Reply)
Hi,
In a csv file, I want to select records where first column has zero or multiple spaces.
Eg: abc.csv
,123,a
,22,b
,11,c
a,11,d
So output should be:
,123,a
,22,b
,11,c
Please advise (5 Replies)
Hi All.
Attached are two files.
I ran a query and have the output as in the file with name "FILEWITHFOURRECORDS.txt "
I didn't want all the spaces between the columns so I squeezed the spaces with the "tr" command and also added a carriage return at the end of every line.
But in two... (3 Replies)
Hello,
This is Solaris 10 (x86)
bash-3.2# cat /etc/release
Solaris 10 5/09 s10x_u7wos_08 X86
Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 30 March... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: solaris_1977
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Ohloh source code line counter command line tool.
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[option] can be one of the following:
-a, --annotate
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-i, --individual
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-re
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The contents of all source code files found within the given paths will be emitted to stdout. Each line will be prefixed with a
tab-delimited language name and semantic categorization (code, comment, or blank).
-d, --detect Find source code files
Recursively find all source code files within the given paths. For each source code file found, the file name will be emitted to
stdout prefixed with a tab-delimited language name.
-h, --help Display this message
-i, --individual Count lines of code per file
Count lines in all source code files within the given paths, and emit a report of the lines of code, comments, and blanks in each
language per file.
-l, --license
Displays detected licensing information contained in each source code file.
-re
Prints raw entity information to the screen (mainly for debugging).
-s, --summary Count lines of code (default)
Count lines in all source code files within the given paths, and emit a report of the total number of lines of code, comments, and
blanks in each language. This is the default action.
[paths] can refer to any number of individual files or directories.
Directories will be probed recursively. If no path is given, the current directory will be used.
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