1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I need to append string "Hi" to the beginning of the lines containing some specific string. How can I achieve that? Please help. Malay (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello All, Plz help me with: I have a csv file with data separated by ',' and optionally enclosed by "". I want to check each of these values to see if they exceed the specified string length, and if they do I want to cut just that value to the max length allowed and keep the csv format as it... (9 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi , I have the below file with 6 columns.I want to append 'File1' as the 1 column to the file. i have the sample code .It is not working . can u please correct this or make new one ..... awk 'print {'File1',$1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6}' Source_File> Result_File Source_File:... (6 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I wanted to append 'XYZ' at the end of the text file. How can i do this? I searched the forums and i am not getting what i want. Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Source File: abcdefghijklmnop01qrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnop02qrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnop03qrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnop04qrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnop05qrstuvwxyz Whatever characters are in 17-18 on each line of the file, it should be concatenated to the same line at the character number... (6 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi , I have below file with 13 columns. I need 2-13 columns seperated by comma and I want to append each row with a string "INSERT INTO xxx" in the begining as 1st column and then a variable "$node" and then $2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8,$9,$10,$11,$12,$13 and at the end another string " ; COMMIT;" ... (4 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I need to parse the file of same name which exist on different servers and calculate the count of string existed in both files. Say a file abc.log exist on 2 servers. I want to search for string "test" on both files and calculate the total count of search string's existence. For... (6 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I have some data in the form of adc|nvhs|nahssn|njadnk|nkfds in the above data i need to write a script so thet it will append "|||" to the third occurnace in the string ..... the outout should look like adc|nvhs|nahssn||||njadnk|nkfds Thanks, Firestar. (6 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I want to know whether a string or variable is exists in a perticular file or not. I want to use IF command in cshell. I am not sure how to use it. can any one help me.. (2 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Greetings. I am working in a Linux environment and am trying to figure out a way to rename files in a directory by appending a unique strings that appears within a certain area in those files. I have gotten as far as identifying what that particular unique string is with a command like the... (10 Replies)