Hello, was looking for some help on extracting a field from the passwd file.
So far I have made a copy of the passwd file and changed my rights so I can edit it. Every user's password is coded as an :x:, and my goal was to change that x to a blank, and then try to extract any user with that field... (2 Replies)
below are the contents of file 'tmp.out':
2|34|534|
1|355|54|
1|443|34|
3|43|768|
3|7|887|
1|9|990|
How do I extract the 2nd and 3rd columns of file 'tmp.out' only when the first column equals '1'.
Note that this file will be huge; atleast 5million+ rows, so I want to avoid looping... (4 Replies)
path = /first/second/third/fourth. i want to extract /first/second/third from path.my program something like this ....
path=/first/second/third/fourth
noc=`echo $path|tr '/' '\n'|wc -w`
var='echo $noc|cut -d'/' -f 1-$noc --> is giving error.
why $noc is not working here.any other... (3 Replies)
:confused: I have a tab delimited file that I need to extract data from and into a file with specific field specs. Each field has to be a certain amount of characters. So, the name field (from delimited file) might have only 15 characters but needs to be 25 (in new file) so I need to insert spaces... (5 Replies)
Hi,
Within a UNIX shell script I need to extract a value from an XML field. The field will contain different values but will always be 6 digits in length. E.g.:
<provider-id>999999</provider-id>
I've tried various ways but no luck. Any ideas how I might get the provider id (in this case... (2 Replies)
Hello Friends,
I have a file(InputFile.csv) with the following columns(the columns are pipe-delimited):
ColA|ColB|ColC|ColD|ColE|ColF
Now for this file, I have to get those records which fulfil the following condition:
If "ColB" is NOT NULL and "ColD" has values one of the following... (9 Replies)
I have a csv file that I need to extract some data from depending on another field after reading info from another text file.
The text file would say have 592560 in it.
The csv file may have some data like so
Field 1 Field2 Field3 Field4 Field5 Field6
20009756 1 ... (9 Replies)
Hi,
In my file (which is "," delimited and text qualifier is "), I have to extract a particualr field.
file1:
1,"aa,b",4
expected is the 2nd field:
aa,b
I tried the basic cut -d "," -f 2 file 1, this gave me
aa alone instead aa,b.
A small hint ot help on this will be very... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file with colon separated values like below. How can i get those lines whose third field is 0 (zero). In the below example, lines starting with stapler and tempo has its third field as 0
$ cat list.txt
galaxy:b:5:world
stapler:a:0:hello
abc:a:4:stomper
kepler:uic:5:jam... (8 Replies)
Hi All,
I have records in unix file like below. In this file, we have empty fields from 4th Column to 22nd Column. I have some 200000 records in a file. I want to extract records only which have empty fields from 4th field to 22nd filed. This file is comma separated file. what is the unix... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT X11R4
urlcoding
URLCODING(3) libbash urlcoding Library Manual URLCODING(3)NAME
urlcoding -- a Libbash library for encoding and decoding URL's.
SYNOPSIS
urlEncodeString [-l] <STRING>
urlEncodeFile [-l] <FILE>
urlEncodeStream [-l]
urlDecodeString <STRING>
urlDecodeFile <FILENAME>
urlDecodeStream
DESCRIPTION
urlcoding is a collection of functions that convert ASCII-text to standard URL's and vice-versa. The AWK code used is based on code by Heiner
Steven <heiner.steven@odn.de>
The function list:
urlEncodeString Creates a URL from an ASCII string
urlEncodeFile Converts a file into URL-valid text
urlEncodeStream Converts standard input into URL-valid text
urlDecodeString Converts a URL-encoded text back to a plain-text form
urlDecodeFile Coverts URL-encoded text in a file back to plain text
urlDecodeStream Converts URL-encoded standard input to text
Detailed interface description follows.
The [-l] option for the encoding functions should be used when line-feed characters ('
') are to be encoded as well.
All functions print the results of their conversions to standard output.
The exit status of all functions is that of the command 'awk', with '0' for success
FUNCTIONS DESCRIPTIONS
urlEncodeString [-l] <STRING>
Converts STRING - a string of ASCII characters - to URL.
urlEncodeFile [-l] <FILE>
Coverts FILE of URL-encoded text to plain text
urlEncodeStream [-l]
Converts text from standard input to URL-text.
urlDecodeString <STRING>
Converts URL-encoded string STRING back to text.
urlDecodeFile <FILENAME>
Converts the URL-encoded text in FILE to plain text.
urlDecodeStream
Converts the URL-encoded text from standard input to plain-text
AUTHORS
Alon Keren <alon.keren@gmail.com>
SEE ALSO ldbash(1), libbash(1)Linux Epoch Linux