thanks for the edit. Quick question though, where in the code is it looking for the keyword "Y Y N N"? When I run the code, the files merge, but the (byte) position does not remain intact. For instance, in some cases, the FLAGS showed appread in column 51, when they should all start at column 80.
Not quite sure what is going on in your code? Could you please elaborate?
I'm not looking for 'Y Y N N'. I'm looking for lines in file1 where the first field is numeric:
This is the piece of code that performs that check:
I should probably tighten it up a bit more:
Hi
I have the fixed width flat file having the following data
12345aaaaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbb
12365sssssssssscccccccccc
12365sssss
12367ddddddddddvvvvvvvvvv
12367 vvvvv
Here the first column is length 5 second is length 10 third is length 10
if the second or third column exceeds... (3 Replies)
The symbols are \t and \t\t (note: not tab)
If the line starts with \t merge them into a single line upto symbol \t\t
\t\t to end and start new line
I able to join in a single line but not ending at \t\t and I completely confused
help would be appreciated:b::D
Input
\ta tab XXXXXXXXXX
\te... (5 Replies)
I regularly extract lines of text from files based on the presence of a particular keyword; I place the extracted lines into another text file. This takes about 2 hours to complete using the "sort" command then Kate's find & highlight facility.
I've been reading the forum & googling and can find... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I have searched forum trying to find a solution to my problem, but could not find anything or I did not understand the examples....
I should say, I am very inexperienced with text processing.
I have a text file with approx 60k lines in it.
I need to merge lines based on the number... (8 Replies)
Hi Guys,
After windows died on my netbook I installed Lubuntu and discovered Gawk about a month ago. After using Excel for 10+ years I'm amazed how quick and easily Gawk can process data but I'm stuck with a little problem merging data from multiple lines.
I'm an SEO Consultant and provide... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I have a requirement to merge multiple lines based on search pattern. The search criteria is : it will search for CONSTRAINT and when it found CONSTRAINT, it will merge all lines to 1 line till it founds blank line.
For Example:
CREATE TABLE "AMS_DISTRIBUTOR_XREF"
(
"SOURCE"... (5 Replies)
Hi,
trying to knock something together to create one line entries based on whether the first word on each line matches a particular value.
eg.
Link,"Name=""Something\something"","Timeout=""1800""",
"Target=""\\thing\thing\thing""","State=""ONLINE""",something,... (0 Replies)
I am trying to merge two lines to one based on some matching condition.
The file is as follows:
Matches filter:
'request ', timestamp, <HTTPFlow
request=<GET:
Matches filter:
'request ', timestamp, <HTTPFlow
request=<GET:
Matches filter:
'request ', timestamp, <HTTPFlow
... (8 Replies)
Hello ,
I will need your help once again.
I have the following file:
cat file02.txt
PATTERN XXX.YYY.ZZZ. 500
ROW01 aaa. 300 XS 14
ROW 45 29 AS XD.FD.
PATTERN 500 ZZYN002
ROW gdf gsste
ALT 267 fhhfe.ddgdg.
PATTERN ERE.MAY. 280
PATTERRNTH 5000 rt.rt.
ROW SO a 678
PATTERN... (2 Replies)
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colorprint
COLORS(3) libbash colors Library Manual COLORS(3)NAME
colors -- libbash library for setting tty colors.
SYNOPSIS
colorSet <color>
colorReset
colorPrint [<indent>] <color> <text>
colorPrintN [<indent>] <color> <text>
DESCRIPTION
General
colors is a collection of functions that make it very easy to put colored text on tty.
The function list:
colorSet Sets the color of the prints to the tty to COLOR
colorReset Resets current tty color back to normal
colorPrint Prints TEXT in the color COLOR indented by INDENT (without adding a newline)
colorPrintN The same as colorPrint, but trailing newline is added
Detailed interface description follows.
Available colors:
Green
Red
Yellow
White
The color parameter is non-case-sensitive (i.e. RED, red, ReD, and all the other forms are valid and are the same as Red).
FUNCTIONS DESCRIPTIONS
colorSet <color>
Sets the current printing color to color.
colorReset
Resets current tty color back to normal.
colorPrint [<indent>] <color>
Prints text using the color color indented by indent (without adding a newline).
Parameters:
<indent>
The column to move to before start printing. This parameter is optional. If ommitted - start output from current cursor position.
<color>
The color to use.
<color>
The text to print.
colorPrintN [<indent>] <color>
The same as colorPrint, except a trailing newline is added.
EXAMPLES
Printing a green 'Hello World' with a newline:
Using colorSet:
$ colorSet green
$ echo 'Hello World'
$ colorReset
Using colorPrint:
$ colorPrint 'Hello World'; echo
Using colorPrintN:
$ colorPrintN 'Hello World'
AUTHORS
Hai Zaar <haizaar@haizaar.com>
Gil Ran <gil@ran4.net>
SEE ALSO ldbash(1), libbash(1)Linux Epoch Linux