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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Change line into fixed columns Post 302712927 by david-1978 on Wednesday 10th of October 2012 04:30:47 AM
Old 10-10-2012
Tools Change line into fixed columns

Hello People,

I want to create a script in korn shell that splits every lines of an LDAP export into columns. After, I want to import it as csv into Excel.


Let me give an example 2 lines :


Code:
user1,ou=SL7,ou=Operations,ou=TEST,o=company

Code:
user2,ou=SL3,ou=Operations,ou=TEST,ou=company,o=company



Export:

user1 ou=SL7 ou=Operations ou=TEST o=company
user2 ou=SL3 ou=Operations ou=TEST o=company
So every line has to be splitted after "," character. Every line have to be sorted by last column. (Not ever line has the same number of columns).
If may be that user3 has a supplemantary column.
user3,ou=Admin Group ,ou=SL3,ou=Operations,ou=TEST,ou=company,o=company


Is this possible in shell or is perl the better language?


Thanks for every answer
Smilie

Kind regards,

David

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 10-10-2012 at 05:59 AM.. Reason: error; code tags
 

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xlhtml(1)						      General Commands Manual							 xlhtml(1)

NAME
xlhtml - A program for converting Microsoft Excel Files .xls SYNOPSIS
xlhtml [-a] [-asc] [-csv] [-xml] [-bcNNNNNN] [-bi/path] [-c] [-dp] [-v] [-fw] [-m] [-nc] [-nh] [-tcNNNNNN] [-te] [-xc:N-N] [-xp:N] [-xr:N- N] FILE DESCRIPTION
This manual page explains the xlhtml program. The program xlhtml is used to convert Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet files into either html or tab delimitted ASCII. The program can be interfaced with helper scripts for viewing email attachments. Most use of this program is through the helper scripts and one would probably rarely resort to using the commandline interface. OPTIONS
-a aggressively optimize html by removing </TR> </TD> or VALIGN="bottom". Some older browsers may not display properly in this mode. -asc Ascii out of -dp and extraction data (-xc, -xp, -xr) -csv Output in Comma Separated Values of -dp and extraction data (-xc, -xp, -xr) -xml Output in XML of -dp and extraction data (-xc, -xp, -xr) -bc Override the background color. e.g. -bc808080 for gray -bi Use background image. e.g. -bi/home/httpd/icon/tar.gif -c Centers the tables horizontally -dp Dump page count and max columns and rows per page -v Prints program version -fw suppress formula warnings about accuracy -m No encoding for multibyte -nc tells it not to colorize the output. -nh Suppress header and body tags in html output -tc Override the text color. e.g. -tcFF0000 for red -te Trims empty rows & columns at the edges of a worksheet -xc Columns (separated by a dash) for extraction (zero based) -xp Page for extraction (zero based), one page only -xr Rows (separated by a dash) to be extracted (zero based) An example of the extraction command line is: xlhtml -fw -asc -xp:0 -xr:2-6 -xc:0-1 Test.xls The extraction output is: Formatted output of cells by column left to right, columns separated by a tab, end of row is: 0x0A, end of file: AUTHOR
Steve Grubb, Charles N Wyble xlhtml May 15, 2002 xlhtml(1)
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