Hi,
I am new to unix shell shell scripting. I have a specific requirement where I need to append comma's based on the max number of column in the file.
Eg:
If my source file look something like this,
sengwa,china
tom,america,northamerica
smith,america
walter
My output file... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to truncate word after comma in a file ONLY if there are already 2 words BEFORE comma. If there is one word or 3 or more words BEFORE comma, then I have to leave the data AS IS. See below for example.
Input File :
John Smith, Manager
Smith, John Frank
J F K... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a text file and I need to insert comma after every 2 digit.
-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 0 0 0
-1-1-1 2 0 0 3 311-1 0 1
-1-1 021 0 011-1-1 033 0I'd like to have this:
-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1, 0, 0, 0
-1,-1,-1, 2, 0, 0, 3, 3,11,-1, 0, 1
-1,-1, 0,21, 0, 0,11,-1,-1, 0,33, 0Thanks for... (7 Replies)
I am trying to search the pattern "ARS (11)" and after the LAST pattern, i am trying to open new line and enter text using sed.
My Existing Text file is Users.txtpaul, Paul Smith, Stevn Smiley, REQ000001, ARS (11)
sam, Sam Martin, Stevn Smiley, REQ000001, ARS (11)
mike, Mike Conway, Stevn... (8 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a file in which I have to insert commna between entries of 2 column and createa new file separated by commas not a columns
if input is
FHIT Adenosine Monotungstate Not Available
CS Trifluoroacetonyl Coenzyme A Not Available
Theo expected output is
... (5 Replies)
Hello there,
I have a comma separated csv , and all the text field is wrapped by double quote. Issue is some text field contain comma as well inside double quote. so it is difficult to process.
Input in the csv file is ,
1,234,"abc,12,gh","GH234TY",34
I need output like below,... (8 Replies)
Having a huge file in the following format.
2,3,1,,,4
1,2,3,,,,,5,
8,7,3,4,,,,
Output needed is:
2,3,1,0.0,0.0,4
1,2,3,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,5,
8,7,3,4,0.0,0.0,0.0,
I have tried reading the file each line, using AWK to parse to find out ",," and then insert 0.0 . It works but very slow. Need... (8 Replies)
Hello,
I have a text file as:-ABC
BCD
CDF
DEF
EFGI need to convert as 'ABC', 'BCD', 'CDF', 'DEF', 'EFG' using a unix command
anybody can help me out on this.
Regards,
Jas
Please wrap all code, files, input & output/errors in CODE tags.
It makes them easier to read and preserves... (12 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a file which has data like
a,b
c,d
e,f
g,h
And I need to insert a new column at the begining with sequence no( 1 to n)
1,a,b
2,c,d
3,e,f
4,g,h
Please let me know how to acheive this in unix (3 Replies)
Hi Experts,
Please support
I have below data in file in comma seperated, but 4th column is containing comma in between numbers, bcz of which when i tried to parse the file the column 6th value(5049641141) is being removed from the file and value(222.82) in column 5 becoming value of column6.
... (3 Replies)
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.16.3 2010-06-11 SHELL-QUOTE(1)