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)
Hi All
Please help me to remove the first 2 character from the file name.
files are like this
$ ls
12aman file
13atul si
56rana se
I want to remove the first 2 char which are numbers.
I want the o/p like thus
aman file
atul si
rana se (8 Replies)
I receive a file which is Dos format. When I view the file using vi, I was able to find ^M, ^@ characters in beteen records. I wanted to remove these control/special characters. I used the dos2unix command. This removed the ^M characters. But I am unable to remove the ^@ character. I tried even the... (6 Replies)
I am trying to remove the tab character from a file, which occurs on two places in every line. So far I have tried the following and most are from threads in this forum:
sed -i '' -e 's/ / /' file.dat
sed -i '' -e 's/*/ /' file.dat
sed -i '' -e 's/\t*/ /g' file.dat
sed -i '' -e 's/*//g'... (4 Replies)
Hi
When i used :set list in vi , i have seen a lot ^I characters in my file. Could anyone please help me how to remove this characters ?
Issue : When i used awk to combine two file (one of the file has ^I characters) then my output is different than what am expecting, one of column being... (2 Replies)
Good afternoon:
im working wih 2 files to find differences and use the cmp command
cmp file1 file2
file1 file2 are are diifferent char 302 line1
i found what the difference is with the sed command and that is the file1 at the end of every line has a (,) (comma) character.
i.e
sed -n... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
Could any one suggest how to remove $ symbol in a text file when i am opening in vi editor.
Scenario;
For example iam having a file name aaa.txt the data inside the file is like
sample
name
when i am opening in vi editor
The same file resembles like below when i am... (1 Reply)
I would like to delete a particular character (') in file.
I tried this command, but didn't work:
sed 's/'//g' file
My file contains these rows:
'eaa3b0e3f86b97a13f123302e1bc788f9':'FfdrTN\''
'ff368e9fb0982cf91237ef5456297bbb3':'jdcgr$x'
'5b829da203d0e53e49e632572bd9091a':']nzuerG'
... (4 Replies)
I have a file which comes every day and the file data look's as below.
Vi abc.txt
a|b|c|d\n
a|g|h|j\n
Some times we receive the file with only a new line character in the file like
vi abc.txt
\n (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: rak Kundra
8 Replies
LEARN ABOUT LINUX
shtool-subst
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)