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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Editing all files inside folders and updating pos 88-94 with continuous numbering. Post 302742663 by Corona688 on Tuesday 11th of December 2012 12:09:34 PM
Old 12-11-2012
Your input and output data is missing a whole lot of columns. It also contains two leading tabs which may or may not actually be part of your data -- quite unclear. If I make a program that works with your 'data', it is guaranteed to not work for you.

This is probably why you've gotten so few replies.

Is this more like what your data actually looks like? (exclude the first line)
Code:
1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234
101 101000048 CITY        ABCDEF FILE BC TOMJE
5220ABCDEF PQRSTUVWX   2342342345PPDAB                                                 0000001
101 101000048 CITY        ABCDEF FILE BC TOMJE                                             12
8220000005005550001000000000000                                                        0000001
5225ABCDEF PQRSTUVWX 121029080319303110                                                0000002
11 101000048 CITY        ABCDEF FILE BC TOMJE                                             13
820000005005550001000000000000                                                         0000002

Also, do you realize that your file-finding code will not find these files in any particular order? It will be arbitrarily determined by which is found first in the filesystem, not by their filenames.
Last edited by Corona688; 12-11-2012 at 01:14 PM..
 

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EXPAND(1)								FSF								 EXPAND(1)

NAME

       expand - convert tabs to spaces

SYNOPSIS

       expand [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

       Convert tabs in each FILE to spaces, writing to standard output.  With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       -i, --initial
	      do not convert TABs after non whitespace

       -t, --tabs=NUMBER
	      have tabs NUMBER characters apart, not 8

       -t, --tabs=LIST
	      use comma separated list of explicit tab positions

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

AUTHOR

       Written by David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
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SEE ALSO

       The full documentation for expand is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and expand programs are properly installed at your  site,
       the command

	      info expand

       should give you access to the complete manual.

expand (coreutils) 4.5.3					   February 2003							 EXPAND(1)
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