That's just a formatting issue use expand to expand the tabs to any width you like, before printing or output to terminal. But keep them as tabs in the file as it's easier to process that way (eg using cut or exporting to excell or whatever else).
eg for 10 space tabs:
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Having a file as follows
file1.txt
Date (dd/mm)Time Server IP Error Code
===========================================================================
10/04/2008 10:10 ServerA xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 6
10/04/2008 10:10 ServerB ... (3 Replies)
I have to files
File1
1 23
2 34
3 7
4 56
5 61
6 22
7 65
File2
2 21
4 32
7 22
Now i need to compare column1 of both the files and generate a third file which should contain all the values of 1st column of 1st file and in the second column i need to get the coressponding row... (2 Replies)
Hi All, can you help me with this:
grep XXX dir/*.txt|wc -l > newfile.txt - this put the results in the newfile.txt, but I want to add another column in the newfile.txt, string 'YYYYY', separated somehow, which corresponds on the grep results?
For example grep will grep XXX dir/*.txt|wc -l >... (5 Replies)
I like to do the following, please help! Thanks a lot
for f in seq(f1 f2 f3 g1 h1 t2)
do
cut -d "+" -f2 $f > $f.nums
paste ? # each loop will attach additional column to the created file $f.nums, how to do this???
done (1 Reply)
Hi i have a file with follw data
"20090427","0","","16371311","-100200","","","","16371311","JUL","09"
In the 10th column i need to convert the month name into month number in this case JUL will be 7 and append the 10th and 11th column which shows me the output as 709. Can you suggest a shell... (11 Replies)
Hi
In a tab delimited file how can I add a column that have values concatenated from all columns.
For example
input.txt
test1 test2 test3
zz2 mm uu
pp3 yy kk
ss2 tt ll
zz3 mm uu
pp23 yy kk
ss3 tt ll
11e 22 44
33c 22 99
output.txt
test1 test2 test3 reslt (6 Replies)
I'm overwriting .unl in first run and after that in seq. runs appending by following method. Any other method or command can do it easier?
ARY_VALUE=1
while
do
if ; then
type.sql > out.unl
else
type.sql >>out.unl
fi
ARY_VALUE--;
done (3 Replies)
Hi, I have a large data file, want to separate it into 100 part and export one specific field as a file; then I want to append each part's column into one file. How to realize that?
1 2 3 1
2 3 4 2
2 3 4 3
3 3 4 4
3 4 5 5
3 4 5 6
I want the last column of the data file, e.g divide it... (5 Replies)
Experts,
I am writing a script and able to write only small piece of code and not able to collect logic to complete this task.
In input file have to look for name like like this (BGL_HSR_901_1AG_A_CR9KTR10) before sh iss neors. Record this (BGL_HSR_901_1AG_A_CR9KTR10) in csv file
Now have to... (0 Replies)
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expand
EXPAND(1) BSD General Commands Manual EXPAND(1)NAME
expand, unexpand -- expand tabs to spaces, and vice versa
SYNOPSIS
expand [-t tab1,tab2,...,tabn] [file ...]
unexpand [-a] [-t tab1,tab2,...,tabn] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The expand utility processes the named files or the standard input writing the standard output with tabs changed into blanks. Backspace
characters are preserved into the output and decrement the column count for tab calculations. The expand utility is useful for pre-process-
ing character files (before sorting, looking at specific columns, etc.) that contain tabs.
The unexpand utility puts tabs back into the data from the standard input or the named files and writes the result on the standard output.
The following options are available:
-a (unexpand only) By default, only leading blanks and tabs are reconverted to maximal strings of tabs. If the -a option is given, then
tabs are inserted whenever they would compress the resultant file by replacing two or more characters.
-t tab1,tab2,...,tabn
Set tab stops at column positions tab1, tab2, ..., tabn. If only a single number is given, tab stops are set that number of column
positions apart instead of the default number of 8.
ENVIRONMENT
The LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of expand and unexpand as described in environ(7).
DIAGNOSTICS
The expand and unexpand utilities exit 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
STANDARDS
The expand and unexpand utilities conform to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').
HISTORY
The expand command appeared in 3.0BSD.
BSD April 21, 2002 BSD