1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a CSV file with a variable number of fields per record. How do I print lines of a certain number of fields only? Several permutations of the following (including the use of escape characters) have failed to retrieve the line I'm after (1,2,3,4)... $ cat myfile 1,2,3,4 1,2,3 $ # Print... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have about 20 CSV's that all look like this: "","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""What I've been told I need to produce is the exact same thing, but with each file now containing the start_code from every other file where the email matches. It doesn't matter if any of the other... (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

So I work in a 1 to 1 laptop deployment and sometimes we need to mass order parts. The vendor will send us a text file and we have to manually input serial numbers. Well I have a full blown web based inventory system which I can pull serial number reports from. I then have to input the part... (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I am new to shell scripting..My problem is i want to give multiple csv files as input to awk script and process the data into one file.. My input file is File1 File2 File3 Product Location Period SalesPrice A x 8/11/2010 ... (7 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, Please go through my requirement. I have a log file in the location /opt/WebSphere61/AppServer/profiles/EMQbatchprofile/logs/EMQbatch This file contains the follwing pattern data <af type="tenured" id="42" timestamp="May 14 13:44:13 2011" intervalms="955.624"> <minimum... (8 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have two csv files, with the following formats: FileA.log: Application, This occured blah Application, That occured blah Application, Also this AnotherLog, Bob did this AnotherLog, Dave did that FileB.log: Uk, London, Application, datetime, LaterDateTime, Today it had'nt... (8 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi, someone to know how can i read a specific column of csv file and search the value in other csv columns if exist the value in the second csv copy entire row with all field in a new csv file. i suppose that its possible using awk but i m not expertise thanks in advance (8 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

:confused:Hello -- i just joined the forums. I am a complete noob -- only about 1 week into learning how to program anything... and starting with linux. I am working in Linux terminal. I have a folder with a bunch of txt files. Each file has several lines of html code. I want to combine... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

There is a closed thread called "carriage returns within quotation marks causing new lines in csv" that I am unable to post to, so I am starting a new thread. The awk solution worked perfectly in most cases. We have some cases where there are multiple carriage returns within a single quoted... (9 Replies)

10. 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)