You would need to do something like this to shift the fields:
output:
But that still leaves two empty fields at the back..
So you would need to do something like this to remove those empty fields at the back.
output:
If you don't know how many field need to be shifted, you would need to calculate the number of empty fields...
But a more straightforward approach would be to just delete field separators:
output:
Or if you do not need to use awk:
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Hi
I have a file which looks like this
name: Sally group: Group4
name: Tim group: Group1
name: Dan group: Group2
name: Chris group: Group3
name: Peter group:
name: Fred group:
name: Mary group: Group2
Well I want to get rid of the... (4 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I wanted to count the number of records for a particular field of a file. whose fields are separated by comma","
I fI use this command.
cat "filename" cut -sd "," -f13 | wc -l
This shows all the lines count including the blank values for the field number 13. I wanted to count... (2 Replies)
I was just looking at this post: https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/22893-delete-multiple-empty-lines.html.
and I am looking to achieve the same with sed. So the idea is to delete lines from a file where a certain field has no value.
Inputfile:
EMID MMDDYY HOURS JOB EMNAME
0241... (4 Replies)
I have this
text.filecharles darwin sam delight
george washington johnson culper
darwin sam delight
micheal jackson penny lite and would like to remove the row, if the first field is blank. so the result would be:
result.filecharles darwin sam ... (4 Replies)
Hi ! programmers
I have a need of detecting empty field in file
my file looks like this
40.900|-71.600|1.6|20|1|1961|21.00|3.700||1|US|28035|10029370|31
40.900|-71.600|5.7|20|1|1961|21.00|3.700||1|US|28035|10029370|31
40.900|-71.600|7.8|20|1|1961|21.00|3.700||1|US|28035|10029370|31... (7 Replies)
Hi all,
I want to remove empty field in a text file. I tried to used sed. But it failed.
Input:
LG10_PM_map_19_LEnd 1000560 G AG AG
LG10_PM_map_19_LEnd 1005621 G AG
LG10_PM_map_19_LEnd 1011214 A AG AG
LG10_PM_map_19_LEnd 1011673 T CT CT ... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I've got a file that has 12 fields. I've merged 2 files and there will be some duplicates in the following:
FILE:
1. ABC, 12345, TEST1, BILLING, GV, 20/10/2012, C, 8, 100, AA, TT, 100
2. ABC, 12345, TEST1, BILLING, GV, 20/10/2012, C, 8, 100, AA, TT, (EMPTY)
3. CDC, 54321, TEST3,... (4 Replies)