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sed replace with fixed length

$ cat template s.noName $ sed "s/s.no/1/" template > out $ sed "s/s.no/100/" template >>out $ cat out 1Name 100Name 1 Name 100Name

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I just need to do find and replace in a file.... say for eg I have the input file like below: in.txt ##### oldtextoldtext oldtext oldtext oldtext oldtext123 oldtext- oldtext I need to replace oldtext to newtext... my output file should come like below.. out.txt...

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Replace spaces at a specific Location

Hello All, I have a comma separated file which needs to be loaded to the database. But, I need to trim the white spaces for a specific column before its loaded. Below is the sample line from the input file: 690,690,0575,"01011940","01011940", , , , , ,36720,36722,V2020,V2999,...

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Replace Date in a fixed length file

Hello All, I working on ksh. I am using fixed length file. My file is like: ======== IXTTIV110827 NANTH AM IKSHIT ABCDEF 0617 IJAY NAND EENIG ZXYWVU 0912 AP OOK OONG PQRSTU100923 NASA DISH TTY ASDFG 0223 GHU UMA LAM QWERT 0111 ATHE SH THEW ======= From 7th to 12 is a date...

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Using sed to replace a word at specific location

I'm try to change a the prohibit to aix for the lines starting with ssh and emagent and rest should be the same. Can anyone please suggest me how to do that using a shell script or sed passwd account required /usr/lib/security/pam_prohibit passwd session required ...

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

To replace the value of the column in a fixed width file

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...

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Deleting lines in a fixed length file where there is a word at specific location

I have a big file having 100 K lines. I have to read each line and see at 356 character position whethere there is a word "W" in it. If it is their then don't delete the line otherwise delete it. There are two lines as one Header and one trailer which should remain same. Can somebody...

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Replace and Increment a value in the fixed length file

Hi Everyone, I need to increment a value in the fixed length file. The file has almost a million rows. Is there any easy way to accomplish this. Ex input file ASDSD ADSD 00000 X AAASD ADSD 00000 X SDDDD ADSD 00000 X Ouput ASDSD ADSD 00001 X AAASD ADSD 00002 X SDDDD ADSD 00003 X ...

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Replace using awk on fixed width file.

All, I used to use following command to replace specific location in a fixed width file. Recently looks like my command stopped working as intended. We are on AIX unix. awk 'function repl(s,f,t,v) { return substr(s,1,f-1) sprintf("%-*s", t-f+1, v) substr(s,t+1) } NR<=10 {...

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Replace characters at fixed positions

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...

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XMLSTARLET(1)							 xmlstarlet Manual						     XMLSTARLET(1)

NAME

       xmlstarlet - command line XML/XSLT toolkit

SYNOPSIS

       xmlstarlet [<options>] [<command>] [<cmd-options>]

INTRODUCTION

       XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) which can be used to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files us-
       ing simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for plain text files using UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc commands.
       This  set of command line utilities can be used by those who deal with many XML documents on UNIX shell command prompt as well as for auto-
       mated XML processing with shell scripts.

OPTIONS

       --version
	      Display the version of xmlstarlet.

       --help Display help.

COMMANDS

       Type: xml <command> --help <ENTER> for command help

       Available commands include:

       ed (or edit)
	      Edit/update XML document(s).

       sel (or select)
	      Select data or query XML document(s) (XPATH, etc).

       tr (or transform)
	      Transform XML documents(s) using XSLT.

       val (or validate)
	      Validate XML document(s) (well-formed/DTD/XSD/RelaxNG).

       fo (or format)
	      Format XML document(s).

       el (or elements)
	      Display element structure of XML document.

       c14n (or canonic)
	      XML canonicalization.

       ls (or list)
	      List directory as XML.

       esc (or escape)
	      Escape special XML characters.

       unesc (or unescape)
	      Unescape special XML characters.

       pyx (or xmln)
	      Convert XML into PYX format (based on ESIS - ISO 8879).

       p2x (or depyx)
	      Convert PYX into XML.

REFERENCES

       XMLStarlet is a command line  toolkit  to  query/edit/check/transform  XML  documents  (for  more  information  see  http://xmlstar.source-
       forge.net/).

AUTHOR

       Mikhail Grushinskiy.

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