The OP has mentioned that he/she needs to check the 4 characters in a line/record starting at the 265th column. 265th column will never be the 265th field for awk (in case of splitting on white-space(spaces and/or tabs)).
Hello,
I cannot figure this one out. I would like to do the following. I have a line that has 7 words. It is possible that the line can have 20 words too. I always want to show the 9th word and beyond. The 9th word will always change so I do not have something to search for, so I think... (1 Reply)
i'm trying to get the user to enter a character, then the script should search for how many of that character exists in the file. I have the following code, but it doesn't work properly and it shows the wrong amount (i don't think im supposed to use grep). For example, I want it to say, "There are... (7 Replies)
sed -e "s// /g" old.txt > new.txt
While I do know some control characters need to be escaped, can normal characters also be escaped and still work the same way? Basically I do not know all control characters that have a special meaning, for example, ?, ., % have a meaning and have to be escaped... (11 Replies)
Hi all, I need help.
I have an input text file (input.txt) like this:
21 GTGCAACACCGTCTTGAGAGG 50
21 GACCGAGACAGAATGAAAATC 73
21 CGGGTCTGTAGTAGCAAACGC 108
21 CGAAAAATGAACCCCTTTATC 220
21 CGTGATCCTGTTGAAGGGTCG 259
Now I need to count A/T/G/C numbers at each character location in column... (2 Replies)
I have a file like:
s_20331 803 1 1 5 1:2=0.00000000 1:3=0.00000000 1:4=0.11111111
s_20331 814 1 1 5 1:2=0.00000000 1:3=0.12611607 1:4=0.00000000I would like to remove the four characters "x:x=" from all columns containing them (in my actual file, there are 15 total columns (i.e. columns... (1 Reply)
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I have a file which is tab-delimited. Now, I'd like to print the lines which have "chr6" string in both first and second columns. Could anybody help? (3 Replies)
Need command for position based replace:
I need a command to replace with 0 for characters in the positions 11 to 20 to all the lines starts with 6 in a file.
For example the file ABC.txt has:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
6abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz... (4 Replies)
Hi ,
I have a requirement to read a file ( 5 fields , ~ delimited) and find the records which contain anything other than Alphabets, Numbers , comma ,space and dot . ie a-z and A-Z and 0-9 and . and " " and , in 2nd field. Once I do that i would want the result to have field1|<flag>
flag can... (2 Replies)
I'm trying to do something like this:
find . -name blablabla -exec ln -s ./"{:53:14} blablabla" \;
The idea is find blablabla and create a symbolic link to it using part of it's path and then it's name, "blablabla."
I just don't know if I can call characters out of a find variable. ... (16 Replies)
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hal-find-by-property
hal-find(1M) System Administration Commands hal-find(1M)NAME
hal-find, hal-find-by-capability, hal-find-by-property - search HAL global device list
SYNOPSIS
hal-find-by-capability --capability capability [--help]
[--verbose] [--version]
hal-find-by-property --key key --string value [--help]
[--verbose] [--version]
DESCRIPTION
The hal-find commands, hal-find-by-capability and hal-find-by-property, search the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) device list by speci-
fied criteria and displays results on the standard output. hal-find-by-capability searches by capability, such as volume or block. hal-
find-by-property searches by property, such as block.is_volume or volume.disc.has_audio.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
--capability capability HAL device capability to search for.
--help Display list of options.
--key key The key to the property that is the basis of the search.
--string value The string value associated with the property that is the basis of the search.
--verbose Verbose mode.
--version Display version and exit.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWhalr |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Volatile |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO hald(1M), attributes(5), hal(5)SunOS 5.11 22 Aug 2006 hal-find(1M)