As an example to replace four spaces proceeding the next word from column 150 with a value of "8251", you would do this (Note requires sed that supports the -E option):
Input:
Output:
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Hi
i am having text file like this
40000201040005200213072009000000700000050744820906904421
40069300240005200713072009000000067400098543630000920442
i want to replace 9-16 positions of my txt file...by 1234567...in a single line command
i.e
0400052....should be replaced by... (2 Replies)
I am attempting to replace positions 44-46 with YYY if positions 48-50 = XXX.
awk -F "" '{if (substr($0,48,3)=="XXX") $44="YYY"}1' OFS="" $filename > $tempfile
But this is not working, 44-46 is still spaces in my tempfile instead of YYY. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. (9 Replies)
Can someone tell me how I can do this?
e.g:
Say file1.txt contains:
today is monday
the 22 of
NOVEMBER
2010
and file2.txt contains:
the
11th
month
of
How do i replace the word NOVEMBER with (5 Replies)
I need to replace dashes (i.e. -) if present from positions 351-357 with zero (i.e. 0), I also need to replace dash (i.e “-“) if present between position 024-043 with zero (i.e. 0) & I replace " " (i.e. 2 space characters) if present at position 381-382 with "04". Total length of record is 413.... (11 Replies)
Script for if characters from positions 7-15 are matching with characters from position 211-219 then replace all char from 211-219 with 9 space.
Total length of record is 420. Here is the specification of the data in file.
Position Field Data Type... (2 Replies)
Hi, I am trying to use an awk command to replace specific character positions on a line beginning with 80 with contents of another file.
The line beginning with 80 in file1 is as follows:
I want to replace the 000000000178800 (positions 34 - 49) on this file with the contents of... (2 Replies)
Hi all, I have column 2 full of values like HIVE4A-56 and HIVE4-56. I want to convert all values like HIVE4A-56 to HIVE4-56.
So basically I want to delete all single alphabets before the '-' which is always preceded by a number. Values already in the desired format should remain unchanged... (4 Replies)
My objective is to replace the 8th, 9th, 10th characters by 1 space per character (total 3 spaces) in a file.
I achieved this using following command:
sed 's/\(.\)/\1@/7;s/@\(...\)/ /' FileData.txt > FileData_UPDATED.txt
Another situation comes when I need to done same but excluding 1st... (5 Replies)
I have a test file a.txt
001 123 456 789
002 This is just a
001 test data
003 file.
I want to clear columns 5 and 6 if the first 3 characters are 001 using awk.
I tried following but does not work. Any suggestions?
awk 'BEGIN{OFS=FS=""} {if (substr($0,1,3)=="123") $5=" "; $6="... (20 Replies)
I have a fixed-length positional file. I am trying to replace content of position 4-13 (length=10) with xxxxxxxxxx.
Sample 2 rows in this file:
H0187459823 172SMITH, JOE
H0112345678 172DOE, JANE
In this example 87459823 (from 1st line) and 12345678 (from 2nd line) (both in position... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Diver181
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fortune
FORTUNE(6) BSD Games Manual FORTUNE(6)NAME
fortune -- print a random, hopefully interesting, adage
SYNOPSIS
fortune [-aDefilosw] [-m pattern] [[N%] file/directory/all]
DESCRIPTION
When fortune is run with no arguments it prints out a random epigram. Epigrams are divided into several categories, where each category is
subdivided into those which are potentially offensive and those which are not. The options are as follows:
-a Choose from all lists of maxims, both offensive and not. (See the -o option for more information on offensive fortunes.)
-D Enable additional debugging output. Specify this option multiple times for more verbose output. Only available if compiled with
-DDEBUG.
-e Consider all fortune files to be of equal size (see discussion below on multiple files).
-f Print out the list of files which would be searched, but do not print a fortune.
-l Long dictums only.
-m pattern
Print out all fortunes which match the regular expression pattern. See regex(3) for a description of patterns.
-o Choose only from potentially offensive aphorisms. Please, please, please request a potentially offensive fortune if and only if you
believe, deep down in your heart, that you are willing to be offended. (And that if you are not willing, you will just quit using -o
rather than give us grief about it, okay?)
... let us keep in mind the basic governing philosophy
of The Brotherhood, as handsomely summarized in these words:
we believe in healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of
the whole human race, if needs be.
Needs be.
--H. Allen Smith, "Rude Jokes"
-s Short apothegms only.
-i Ignore case for -m patterns.
-w Wait before termination for an amount of time calculated from the number of characters in the message. This is useful if it is exe-
cuted as part of the logout procedure to guarantee that the message can be read before the screen is cleared.
The user may specify alternate sayings. You can specify a specific file, a directory which contains one or more files, or the special word
all which says to use all the standard databases. Any of these may be preceded by a percentage, which is a number N between 0 and 100 inclu-
sive, followed by a '%'. If it is, there will be an N percent probability that an adage will be picked from that file or directory. If the
percentages do not sum to 100, and there are specifications without percentages, the remaining percent will apply to those files and/or
directories, in which case the probability of selecting from one of them will be based on their relative sizes.
As an example, given two databases funny and not-funny, with funny twice as big, saying
fortune funny not-funny
will get you fortunes out of funny two-thirds of the time. The command
fortune 90% funny 10% not-funny
will pick out 90% of its fortunes from funny (the ``10% not-funny'' is unnecessary, since 10% is all that is left). The -e option says to
consider all files equal; thus
fortune -e funny not-funny
is equivalent to
fortune 50% funny 50% not-funny
ENVIRONMENT
FORTUNE_PATH The search path for the data files. It is a colon-separated list of directories in which fortune looks for data files. If not
set it will default to /usr/share/games/fortune. If none of the directories specified exist, it will print a warning and exit.
FORTUNE_SAVESTATE
If set, fortune will save some state about what fortune it was up to on disk.
FILES
/usr/games/fortune
/usr/share/games/fortune/* the fortunes databases (those files ending ``-o'' contain the offensive fortunes)
SEE ALSO arc4random_uniform(3), regcomp(3), regex(3), strfile(8)BSD November 7, 2007 BSD