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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to convert a space delimited file into a pipe delimited file using shellscript? Post 302558707 by nithins007 on Sunday 25th of September 2011 03:43:52 AM
Old 09-25-2011
Question How to convert a space delimited file into a pipe delimited file using shellscript?
Hi All,
I have space delimited file similar to the one as shown below.. I need to convert it as a pipe delimited, the values inside the pipe delimited file should be as highlighted...
Code:
AA ATIU2345098809 009697 005374
BB ATIU2345097809 005445 006518
CC ATIU9685098809 003215 003571
DD ATIU9685098709 006878 002344
EE ATIU2315098809 005649 005377
FF ATIU2315098809 005231 005354
TT TTT TTT

I want to convert this file into a pipe delimited file as shown below without including the last row in the above file(ie TT TTT TTT),
Code:
2345|98|809||x|969|0
2345|97|809||x|544|0
2345|98|809||y|0|537
2345|97|809||y|0|651
9685|98|809||x|321|0
9685|98|809||x|687|0
9685|98|709||y|0|357
9685|98|709||y|0|234
2315|98|809||x|564|0
2315|98|809||x|523|0
2315|98|809||y|0|537
2315|98|809||y|0|535

Last edited by Scott; 09-25-2011 at 05:31 AM.. Reason: Added code tags; nithins007 - please, if you must use colour, use ones that are more easily readable
 

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