1. Shell Programming and Scripting

hello, I have a file that has lines with different lengts. I want this file to be filled up with a zero so that al the lines have the same length. Please advice? File 1: ----------- 2310 2009 830 1345 Result File 2: ---------- 2310 2009 0830 (3 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi .... we are having the below file .Column 1, Column 2 ,column 3 are key fields... In the below ...for 2 nd , 3 rd row the repeated key column is missing .... i want the new file to be populated with all missing key columns. ... (11 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

It can't be that hard, but I just can't figure it out: I have file like: File Sub-brick M_1 S_1 M_2 S_2 M_4 S_4 ... xxx 1 214 731 228 621 132 578 ... and would like to get 0 0 where M_3 S_3 is missing xxx 1 214 731 228 621 0 0 132 578 ... I wrote following script, but can't figure out... (3 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello All, Got a question to make a script what reads a directory and put the file names from that directory in a file with some extra text. ls /tempdir output is: file1.gfh file2.txt file4.zzz these file names (always with an extention) must be placed in a line and written to... (2 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I've got a file with several columns where some entries are missing. Example: a b c d f g h j k l p y r I need to replace the empty spaces with zero, so the new file would be: a b c d f 0 g h j k 0 l p y 0 r The original file is tab delimited. Many thansk for... (3 Replies)

6. Programming

Hi everyone, I am using shell scripting on a Unix SCO box. It calls a C program named zerofill. I do not know anything about C. I am having an issue with a hash total that should only be zero filled 10 positions but the record has 11 positions. DEBUG RESULTS + nice -n -5 bc -l /tmp/fhash8395... (0 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

How do I zero fill a string. E.g pad a string to two digits m=`date "+%m"` pm=`expr $m - 1` echo $pm the above code echoes 1. I want it to echo 01. Any ideas? (3 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi all! i have a script with an output like this abc 123 1246 abc 1386 abc 2589 abc 7383 what can i do if i want to fill the 2nd column with the 2nd string '123' abc 123 1246 abc 123 1386 abc 123 2589 abc 123 7383 thanks! (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have 100 .txt files which look like this: 3 4 5 6 7 Now, some files have some numbers missing in them and they look like this: 4 5 6 (6 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a data sample as shown below. I want to fill in the left column so that the line will be continuous. For example, between 1 and 5 should be 2,3,4. And corresponding values in the right column will be 0. Thus the expected data should look like that: 1 1 1 10 1 2 1 3 1 5 1 6 2 0... (6 Replies)