09-28-2011
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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm reading from a file that is semi-colon delimited. One of the fields contains 2 spaces separating the first and last name (4th field in - "JOHN<space><space> DOE"):
e.g. TORONTO;ONTARIO;1 YONGE STREET;JOHN DOE;CANADA
When I read this record and either echo/print to screen or write to... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: NinersFan
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am searching while I await a response to this so if it has been asked already I apologize.
I have a file with lines in it that look like:
bob johnson email@email.org
I need it to look like:
bob:johnson:email@email.org
I am trying to use sed like this:
sed -e 's/ /:/g' file >... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: NewSolarisAdmin
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I just need to check for 'tabs' in my input file and need to replace all tabs into 'n' no. of spaces. Say for example if I give NO_OF_SPACE=5, then it should replace all tabs with 5 spaces
abc.in
#####
asdasdasd
\t\t\tasjkalskdl;asdsdjfksldfjklsdfxcmxm,cv... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: askumarece
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys,
I am using a Redhat Linux Centos machine and trying to convert multiple spaces in a file to one space. I am using:
sed '/./,/^$/!d' input_file > output_file
I also tried
cat -s
Both gave me no change in the output file.
I tried this on cygwin and it worked... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: npatwardhan
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
consider the small piece of code
while read line
do
echo $line
done < example
content of example file
sadasdasdasdsa erwerewrwr ergdgdfgf rgerg erwererwr
the output is like
sadasdasdasdsa erwerewrwr ergdgdfgf rgerg erwererwr
the... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Kesavan
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi All,
My requisite is to split a single column of phonemes seperated by spaces into multiple rows.
my input file is:
a
dh
u
th
a
qn
ch
A
v
U
r
k
my o/p should be like:
adhu a dh u (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: girlofgenuine
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
How to change the uploaded weekly file data to the following format?
New Well_Id,Old Well_Id,District,Thana,Date,Data,R.L,WellType,Lati.,Longi.
BAG001,PT006,BARGUNA,AMTALI,1/2/1978,1.81,2.29,Piezometer,220825,901430
BAG001,PT006,BARGUNA,AMTALI,1/9/1978,1.87,2.29,Piezometer,220825,901430... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: sara.nowreen
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am looking for a regular expression that uses sed to replace multiple spaces with single spaces on every line where it is not at the start of the line and not immediately before double slashes ('//') or between quotes (").
In its simplest form, it would look like this:
sed -e 's# # #g'... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: figaro
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
In a csv file, I want to select records where first column has zero or multiple spaces.
Eg: abc.csv
,123,a
,22,b
,11,c
a,11,d
So output should be:
,123,a
,22,b
,11,c
Please advise (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: vegasluxor
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All.
Attached are two files.
I ran a query and have the output as in the file with name "FILEWITHFOURRECORDS.txt "
I didn't want all the spaces between the columns so I squeezed the spaces with the "tr" command and also added a carriage return at the end of every line.
But in two... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: sparks
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