Hi, I have two input files.
File1:
ID Name Place
1-234~name1~Newyork
1-34~name2~Boston
1-2345~name3~Hungary
File1 is a variable length file where each column is seperated by delimitter "~".
File2:
ID Country
1-34<<11 SPACES>>USA<<7 spaces>>
1-234<<10 SPACES>>UK<<8... (5 Replies)
Col1 Col2 Col3 Col4
12 Completed 08 0830
12 In Progress 09 0829
11 For F U 07 0828
Considering the file above, how could i replace the third column the most efficient way? The actual file size is almost 1G. I am... (10 Replies)
Hi, Iam new to unix. I have one input file .
Input file :
ID1~Name1~Place1
ID2~Name2~Place2
ID3~Name3~Place3
I need output such that only first column should change to fixed width column of 15 characters of length.
Output File:
ID1<<12 spaces>>Name1~Place1
ID2<<12... (5 Replies)
Hi,
How to output the duplicate record to another file. We say the record is duplicate based on a column whose position is from 2 and its length is 11 characters.
The file is a fixed width file.
ex of Record:
DTYU12333567opert tjhi kkklTRG9012
The data in bold is the key on which... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am unable to find the right option to extract the data in the fixed width file.
sample data
abcd1234xgyhsyshijfkfk
hujk9876 io xgla
loki8787eljuwoejroiweo
dkfj9098 dja
Search based on position 8-9="xg" and print the entire row
output
... (4 Replies)
I have a fixed with file with header & trailer length having the same length of the detail record file.
The details record length of this file is 24, for Header and Trailer the records will be padded with spaces to match the record length of the file
Currently I am adding 3 spaces in header... (14 Replies)
hi,
i have a fixed width file with multiple columns and need to print data using awk command.
i use: awk -F "|" '($5 == BH) {print $1,$2,$3}' <non_AIM target>.txt for a delimiter file.
but now i have a fixed width file like below:
7518 8269511BH 20141224951050N8262
11148 8269511BH... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to select the rows in a fixed width file based on values in the columns.
I want to select only the rows if column position 3-4 has the value AB
I am using cut command to get the column values. Is it possible to check if cut -c3-4 = AB is true then select only that... (2 Replies)
Hi Forum.
I tried searching for a solution using the internet search but I haven't been able to find any solution for what I'm trying to accomplish.
I have a fixed width column file where I need to search for any occurrences of "D0" in col pos.#1-2, 10-11, 20-21 and replaced it with "XD".
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: pchang
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.8.4 2005-05-03 SHELL-QUOTE(1p)