I posted this already in another thread, but was told that I should create a seperate thread for the following question:
How do I strip the extension when the delimiter might occur multiple times in the filename?
For example:
I have 2 files as input for my script.
test.extension... (8 Replies)
I have a large list of filenames from an Excel sheet, which I then translate into a simple text file. I'd like to use this list, which contains various file extensions , to archive these files and then remove them recursively through multiple directories and subdirectories. So far, it looks like... (5 Replies)
Hi!
I store some data obtained with grep or awk in a file. The problem is that some lines have white space at the begining :
line1
line2
line3
I use something like
grep WORD INFILE >> OUTFILE
awk >> OUTFILE
I would love if it were possible to remove the white whitout parsing the... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I have files in the filename pattern of,
this.is.the.name.of.my.file.mov
and I would like to remove dots (.) and replace them with spaces ( ) so the output would be,
this is the name of my file.mov
The other issue that I have is that the number of dots (.) in the file... (6 Replies)
Hello,
I am trying to write a bash shell script that does the following:
1.Finds all *.txt files within my directory of interest
2. reads each of the files (25 files) one by one (tab-delimited format and have the same data format)
3. skips the first 10 rows of the file
4. extracts and... (4 Replies)
Hi,
how could you go about removing words that begin with a certain character.
assuming that this character is '-' I currently have
echo "-hello" | sed s/-/""/
which replaces the leading dash with nothing but I want to remove the whole word, even if there are multiple words beginning... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to remove spaces from the beginning of a string (which i am using in my shell script). For ex - my string looks like this -
" no rows selected"
and i want the string to look like this -
"no rows selected"
How can i achieve this?
Thanks! (18 Replies)
Hi there,
i need some help to remove all occurrences of a certain character at the beginning of a string.
Example: my string is 00102030 and i want to remove all zeros from beginning of string so the result is 102030 (3 Replies)
Hi,
In my file, I have few records which are split across multiple lines.
File 1:
=====
james,\n
pre-auth completed,in patient,\n
Fac_Id:23451,ramson,Dallas
Expected is:
==========
james,pre-auth completed,in patient,Fac_Id:23451,ramson,Dallas (8 Replies)
I am trying to get the file extension with file names that could contain multiple dots using shell scripting. I want to find a way using the sed command.
Example Filenames:
one.dat
one.dat.002
Results:
dat
I would like to return dat in both instances using the sed command. How can I... (4 Replies)