1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a string "\/scratch\/databases\". I want to have a new string "\/scratch\/databases" by cutting last '\' character using shell script. I can't do this Please help me. Thanks in advance ThuongTranVN (4 Replies)

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi All, Can the cut command have double character delimiter? If yes, how can we use it. if my data file contains : apple || mango || grapes i used cut -f1 -d"||" filename but got an error. Plz help.... Thanks. (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have a string like "9633C01302_2". I need to extract the number(02) after "13" and before "_" and the number coming after "13" and before "_" is not constant, it keeps on changing... Can some one plz help me wth the command.. i tried this echo "9633C01302_2" | cut -d'_' -f1 ..But... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have txt file : SubNetwork=ONRM_ROOT_MO,SubNetwork=RNC2,MeContext=3141_RBI_Mumong_Exchange,ManagedElement=1,SystemFunctions=1,Licensing=1 then can we use awk command to get result : ONRM_ROOT_MO_RNC2,3141_RBI_Mumong_Exchange Thanks, Bow (9 Replies)

5. HP-UX

Hi Experts, I have data coming in 4 columns and there are new line characters \n in between the data. I need to remove the new line characters in the middle of the row and keep the \n character at the end of the line. File is comma (,) seperated. Eg: ID,Client ,SNo,Rank 37,Airtel \n... (8 Replies)

6. Slackware

not sure how to do it. wan't to delete it using cut and grep ince i would use it in the shell. but how must the command be? grep "64.233.181.103 wwwGoogle.com" /etc/hosts | cut -d the delimeter is just a space. can you help meplease. :D (1 Reply)

7. Solaris

I get a file which has all its content in a single row. The file contains xml data containing 3000 records, but all in a single row, making it difficult for Unix to Process the file. I decided to insert a new line character at all occurrences of a particular string in this file (say replacing... (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi friend, I have one file , and i want to read that file character by character. I need this script in ksh. while using read option with -n1 am getting error. while read -n1 c read has bad option And if i am using below script, then if in a line has space like this ( Pallvi mahajan)... (10 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a file which has first 2 junk characters(X^C) at beginning of each line in file. When i run cut -c 2- filename it removes junk characters from all lines except on first line it keeps one junk character control C(^C). Not sure why it is not removing only from first line. (2 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hello All, I have a file which contain below lines. The starting word of each line is call and the end line is semi colon. I need to find the character size of each line and then move it to a file. If the character size is more than 255 then I need to push that line to a next file and I need... (6 Replies)