Yes. It is setup to be a delimiter. This file will be transferred to Excel at some stage and the caret is only sign that will allow other data in the file to be imported properly.
So for example each line in the file is constructed like this:
I hope this make it a bit clearer.
vnayak
Quote:
Originally Posted by DGPickett
Is the caret mark a literal in your file. I think we need more examples.
Hi Friends,
Following is an output of a script
OPWQERIUTYKLSADFJHGXZNMCVBWQOPERIUTYKLSADFJHGXZNMCVB
I want to replace above string's 11 to 17 character by ******* (7 stars)
How can it be done?
Please somebody guide me. (6 Replies)
Hello,
I have a file with many lines with below format:
\abc\\1234
jkl\\567
def\\345
\pqr\\567
\xyz\\234
Here, i need to do 2 things.
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2. remove starting \
so output to be as below: (11 Replies)
I tried to replace the following in vi:
old: 'e/thesis/pp/zones/zones'
new: 'd/so162/fix/pp'
For that, I used: :%s/e/thesis/pp/zones/zones/d/so162/fix/pp/g
but doesn't work, a trailing character error message appeared. How can I get it?
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Hi, I have a bash script and I am looking for a command that will merge specific lines together.
Sample Data:
registration time = 1300890272
Id = 1
setd = 0
tagunt = 26
tagId=6, length=8, value=
tagId=9, length=5, value=
tagId=7, length=2, value=
tagId=16, length=2, value=
tagId=32,... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I'm attempting to rename some files that have spaces in them. Without linking sed commands together is it possible to replace the first three "." to " ".
File.name.is.long.ext -> File name is long.ext
I can get the desired effect with
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Hi,
I have a input of the form:
..., word1, word2, word3...
I want out put of the form
word1, word2, word3
I tried echo '..., word1, word2, word3...' | tr -d '...,'
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word1 word2 word3
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sed -e "s// /g" old.txt > new.txt
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Hi,
I have a text file with some lines like this:
/MEDIA/DISK1/23568742.MOV
/MEDIA/DISK1/87456321.AVI
/MEDIA/DISK2/PART1/45753131.AVI
/IMPORT/44452.WAV
...
I want to remove the last 12 characters in each line that it ends "AVI". Should look like this:
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Hi guys, I'm new to bash programming, so please pardon me.
I'm trying to replace an entry's text in Books.txt
This code works perfectly:
sed -i "s/$BookTitle/$NewBookTitle/g" Books.txt
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Hi,
Im using sed on an AIX machine. I am trying to change the 137-139 characters if they are a ' 36'/'000' to a '036'. The positions that need to be changed are fixed.
the source data that I have is$cat v.txt
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