An alternate with sed , cut , paste:
producing:
The sed converts 3 or more blanks to TABs, the cut extracts column (field) 2, and the paste combines 2 lines into one.
If the whitespace in the results does not show up on your display, rest assured that the tokens are separated by a TAB. You can copy and paste them to see it.
Sample input (line feed indicated by )
---------------
The red fox jumped
over the brown fence of the
red hous
He then went into the
orchard
---------------
Desired Output
---------------
The red fox jumped over the brown fence of the red house
He then went into the orchard (11 Replies)
THIS is the output i Get i want to take out most of the banner and such and leave ------ down to ------ with fields right it doesnt seem to ouput right im not sure how to delete the $ characters because shell sees them .....
thansk
or even something that make it looks better to understand... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I'm trying to figure out how to use sed or awk to delete single lines in a file. By single, I mean lines that are not touching any other lines (just one line with white space above and below).
Example:
one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
I want it to look like: (6 Replies)
Sample file:
This is line one,
this is another line,
this is the PRIMARY INDEX line
l ;
This is another line
The command should find the line with “PRIMARY INDEX” and remove the last character from the line preceding it (in this case , comma) and remove the first character from the line... (5 Replies)
Hi friends,
This is sed & awk type question.
I have a text file which has numbers spread all over the file. I want to sum the series of numbers whenever i find it and produce an output file with the sum. For example
###start of input text file ####
abc
def
ghi
1
2
3
4
kjld
random... (3 Replies)
Hi guys!
I use AWK commands under GAMS to predispose the data files to be read by GAMS.
I have a file which contains groups of data I need. Unfortunately I have the data spread in 3 rows for each subject.
Here's an example (the file is really long)
1 0 2.0956 100.00 250.00 100.00 2.0956... (4 Replies)
Dear Unix Forums,
I am hoping you can help me with a pattern matching problem.
What am I trying to do?
I want to replace multiple lines of a text file (that match a multi-line pattern) with a single line of text. These patterns can span several lines and do not always have the same number of... (10 Replies)
I have an awk statement in a ksh script that looks for a certain string then looks at each line after to find another match. The match could be the next line or second down and it works well.
nawk 'BEGIN {FS=RS;RS="!"} /interface loopback0/
{for(i=1;i<=NF; i++) if ($i ~ /ip... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have been stuck in this requirement where my file contains the below format.
20150812170500846959990854-25383-8.0.0
"ABC Report" hp96880
"4952"
20150812170501846959990854-25383-8.0.0 End of run
20150812060132846959990854-20495-8.0.0
"XYZ Report" vg76452
"1006962188"... (6 Replies)
In the awk piped to sed below I am trying to format file by removing the odd xxxx_digits and whitespace after, then move the even xxxx_digit to the line above it and add a space between them. There may be multiple lines in file but they are in the same format. The Filename_ID line is the last line... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: cmccabe
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paste
PASTE(1) BSD General Commands Manual PASTE(1)NAME
paste -- merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
SYNOPSIS
paste [-s] [-d list] file ...
DESCRIPTION
The paste utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files, replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a
single tab character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output. If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files
still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source of empty lines.
The options are as follows:
-d list Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline characters instead of the default tab. The characters in list
are used circularly, i.e., when list is exhausted the first character from list is reused. This continues until a line from the
last input file (in default operation) or the last line in each file (using the -s option) is displayed, at which time paste
begins selecting characters from the beginning of list again.
The following special characters can also be used in list:
newline character
tab character
\ backslash character
Empty string (not a null character).
Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the character itself.
-s Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line order. The newline character of every line except the
last line in each input file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by the -d option.
If '-' is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly,
for each instance of '-'.
EXAMPLES
List the files in the current directory in three columns:
ls | paste - - -
Combine pairs of lines from a file into single lines:
paste -s -d '
' myfile
Number the lines in a file, similar to nl(1):
sed = myfile | paste -s -d '
' - -
Create a colon-separated list of directories named bin, suitable for use in the PATH environment variable:
find / -name bin -type d | paste -s -d : -
DIAGNOSTICS
The paste utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO cut(1), lam(1)STANDARDS
The paste utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.
HISTORY
A paste command appeared in Version 32V AT&T UNIX.
BUGS
Multibyte character delimiters cannot be specified with the -d option.
BSD September 20, 2001 BSD