I try to test the carriage return in a variable.
$ LENGTH=`expr $VARIABLE : ".*"` will return the length of the variable. But this doesn't work if $VARIABLE has zero length.
Any help will be well appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Giovanni (4 Replies)
I have a file with multiple records in it and want to create a single record by removing all the carriage returns, is there a sed command or another command that will easily allow this to happen.
current layout
813209A
813273C
812272B
expected result
813209A813273C812272B
previously I... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I'm not very familiar with unix shell. I want to replace the combination of two carriage returns and one newline with one carriage return and one newline. I think the best way to do this is to use sed. I tried something like this:
sed -e "s#\#\#g" file.txt
but it doesn't work.
Thanx... (2 Replies)
Could someone tell me how to do the below without opening the file? (eg in sed or awk)
I have a file with the contenst below:
$ more file1.txt
10
AAA;
200
BBB;
3
CCC;
I want to delete the carriage return of one line above the line which has ";" at the end to get the... (3 Replies)
Hi everybody!
I'm working in one script with sed, I have file with the next content:
<voms.db.type
value="changeme"/>
<voms.db.host
value="changeme"/>
<voms.admin.smtp.host
value="changeme"/>
<voms.mysql.admin.password
value="changeme"/>
<glite.installer.verbose
value="true"/>
... (3 Replies)
I want to instert Category:XXXXX into the 2. line
something like this should work, but I have somewhere the wrong sytanx. something with the linebreak goes wrong:
sed "2i\\${n}Category:$cat\n"
Sample:
Titel Blahh Blahh abllk sdhsd sjdhf
Blahh Blah Blahh
Blahh
Should look like... (2 Replies)
Greetings
I need to replace "whitespace" in a file with the newline character aka carriage return
My command is either wrong or not interpreted properly by me shell
sed s/" "/\\n" "/g nets > nets1
or
sed s/" "/\n" "/g nets > nets1
nets (input file)
13MHZ_IN... (4 Replies)
Hi
I am using sed command to make SCORE=somevalue to SCORE=blank in a file.
Please see the attached lastline.txt file. After executing the below command on the file, it removes the last line.
cat lastline.txt | sed 's/SCORE=.*$/SCORE=/g' > newfile.txt
Why does sed command remove the... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
need your help in replacing carriage return in a record.
Input:
col1|col2|col3|col4|col5|col6|col7|col8|col9|col10
1|aa|bb|cc|dd|eee
eee|ff|ggggg|hh
hhh|iii
2|zz|yy|xx|ww|vv|uu|tt|ss|rr
Output:
col1|col2|col3|col4|col5|col6|col7|col8|col9|col10... (12 Replies)
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