Hey ,
I have a file and it's having spaces for some of the fields in it. Like the one below. I want to remove the spaces in them through out the file. The spaces occur randomly and i can't say which field is having space. So please help. Here is sample file with spaces after 5th field. (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I have spaces in between file names.
"Material Header.txt"
"Customer Header.txt"
"Vendor Header.txt"
And how can I remove spaces between file names like below
MaterialHeader.txt
CustomerHeader.txt
VendorHeader.txt
Thanks
Srimitta (10 Replies)
I'm currently writing my sql results to a file and they have trailing spaces after each field. I want to get rid of these spaces and I'm using this code:
TVXTEMP=$(echo $TVXTEMP|sed -e 's/\ //g')
It doesn't work though. I'm not familiar with sedscript, and the other codes I've found online... (6 Replies)
hi
i have a file which store some data.the contents of my file is
data1:data2
data3:data4
i have a script which read this file
correct="$(cat /root/sh | cut -d: -f1)"
i used this syntax..please help me which syntax is used to remove blank spaces..then how to read this file.. (1 Reply)
hey,
I have this file:
ATOM 2510 HG12 VAL 160 8.462 15.861 1.637
ATOM 2511 HG13 VAL 160 9.152 14.510 0.725
ATOM 2512 CG2 VAL 160 6.506 16.579 -0.088
ATOM 2513 HG21 VAL 160 5.499 16.421 -0.478
ATOM 2514 HG22 VAL 160 6.417 16.984 ... (4 Replies)
hiii i have a file that contains spaces in the begining of a file till the middle the from there the txt would appear. hw can i remove those spaces and bring the text to the begining portion
file1
text starts from here (12 Replies)
I have a file which contains data such as that shown below. How do i remove all the blcnak spaces, before, during and at the end of each line in one command?
300015, 58.0823212, 230.424728
300016, 58.2276459, 229.141602
300017, 58.7590027, 226.960846
... (9 Replies)
Hi i have a file in which i am doing some processing.
The code is as follows:
#!/bin/ksh
grep DATA File1.txt >> File2.txt
sed 's/DATA//' File2.txt | tr -d ‘ ‘ >> File4.xls
As you can see my output is going in a xl file.The output consist of four columns/feilds out of which the first... (20 Replies)
Hi All,
The output file contains data as below.
"20141023","CUSTOMER" ,"COMPANY" ,"IN0515461" ,"" ,"JOSHUA"
There are spaces in between the ending " and ,. The number of spaces is random.
How can I remove that from the file so that the final output is:... (4 Replies)
I've tried various solutions to move a file name with spaces and nothing seems to work. I need to take a date as input, prepend it to a filename with spaces then remove the spaces and mv the file to the new name.
#!/bin/ksh
#
if (( $# != 1 ))
then
echo "Usage: `basename $0` <DATE> "
... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: w_s_s
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$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)