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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LEARN ABOUT OSX
column
COLUMN(1) BSD General Commands Manual COLUMN(1)NAME
column -- columnate lists
SYNOPSIS
column [-tx] [-c columns] [-s sep] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The column utility formats its input into multiple columns. Rows are filled before columns. Input is taken from file operands, or, by
default, from the standard input. Empty lines are ignored.
The options are as follows:
-c Output is formatted for a display columns wide.
-s Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the -t option.
-t Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with
the characters supplied using the -s option. Useful for pretty-printing displays.
-x Fill columns before filling rows.
ENVIRONMENT
The COLUMNS, LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of column as described in environ(7).
EXIT STATUS
The column utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
(printf "PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY " ;
printf "HH:MM/YEAR NAME
" ;
ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t
SEE ALSO colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1)HISTORY
The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.
BUGS
Input lines are limited to LINE_MAX (2048) bytes in length.
BSD July 29, 2004 BSD