my input file contains thousands of lines like below
234A dept of education
9788 dept of commerce
8677 dept of engineering
How do i add a delimeter ':' after FIRST 4 CHARACTERS in a line
234A:dept of education
9788:dept of commerce
8677:dept of engineering (7 Replies)
Hello,
in my script i have this lines of code in a while cycle:
..
let j=i+1
t_prod_$i = `cat myfile.csv | grep world | cut -d ";" -f$j`
let i+=1
...
So if i try an echo $t_prod_$i at the end of the cycle i cannot see
the right value obtained by `cat myfile.csv | grep world |... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a variable $ID=40 and I need to build a string like
40 40 40 40 40 40
so repeating ID 'n' times separated by spaces.
Any help?
Thanks
Sarah (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I need to concatenate the values in the array into a variable. Currently the code is :
for (( i=1 ; i <= $minCount ; i++ ))
do
var="${var}""${sample_file}"
done
The output is :
/tmp/1/tmp/2/tmp/3/tmp/4/tmp/5/tmp/6/tmp/7/tmp/8/tmp/9/tmp/10
I need a space between... (1 Reply)
Hello,
Trying to concatenate the following using bourne shell:
# !/bin/bash
# this works in bash shell e.g. get the results I am expecting
fnTmp=C$cindex.$station_0.$station_1.$station_3.$ts.tmp
#
# under !/bin/sh
# the results are not the same
Any assistance would be... (8 Replies)
#! /bin/csh
set tt=12345_UMR_BH452_3_2.txt
set rr=`echo $tt | cut -d_ -f1`
set rr1=welcome
set ff=$rr $rr1
echo $ff
why $ff returned only 12345 and not 12345welcome? thanks (2 Replies)
Hi all, I'm trying to build a variable name automatically through a for loop for a script I'm working on, basically I want to build the variables named: $JVM_HOME0 or $JVM_HOME1 so that I can loop through some file copy/deletes and a server restart once completed. With the code below, I get this... (3 Replies)
Hi there,
I'm writing a basic script where I want to make a string of 2 numeric fields from a file, which I have done, but the behavior is rather confusing.
I have a file of random values such as:
1 2
3 4
5 6
7 8
9 10
and my awk code is:
BEGIN { FS = " " }
{ str = str $1 $2 }
END {... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I was trying to work on a file which had the following data format
1 hi
1 this
1 is
1 john
2 hello
3 test
3 case
the expected output file is the below
1 hi, this, is, john
2 hello
3 test, case
I tried using awk or while read, but I couldnt... (13 Replies)
I have a script which is migrated from AIX to Linux & now while running it is no able to concatenate string values
The string concatenation step under while loop is not displaying desired result
Please find below the piece of code:
while read EXT_FILE ; do
EXT_FILE=$EXT_FILE.ext.sent
echo... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: PreetArul
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
cat
CAT(1) General Commands Manual CAT(1)NAME
cat - catenate and print
SYNOPSIS
cat [ -u ] [ -n ] [ -s ] [ -v ] file ...
DESCRIPTION
Cat reads each file in sequence and displays it on the standard output. Thus
cat file
displays the file on the standard output, and
cat file1 file2 >file3
concatenates the first two files and places the result on the third.
If no input file is given, or if the argument `-' is encountered, cat reads from the standard input file. Output is buffered in the block
size recommended by stat(2) unless the standard output is a terminal, when it is line buffered. The -u option makes the output completely
unbuffered.
The -n option displays the output lines preceded by lines numbers, numbered sequentially from 1. Specifying the -b option with the -n
option omits the line numbers from blank lines.
The -s option crushes out multiple adjacent empty lines so that the output is displayed single spaced.
The -v option displays non-printing characters so that they are visible. Control characters print like ^X for control-x; the delete char-
acter (octal 0177) prints as ^?. Non-ascii characters (with the high bit set) are printed as M- (for meta) followed by the character of
the low 7 bits. A -e option may be given with the -v option, which displays a `$' character at the end of each line. Specifying the -t
option with the -v option displays tab characters as ^I.
SEE ALSO cp(1), ex(1), more(1), pr(1), tail(1)BUGS
Beware of `cat a b >a' and `cat a b >b', which destroy the input files before reading them.
4th Berkeley Distribution May 5, 1986 CAT(1)