1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I have a binary file (orig.dat) and two special delimiter strings 'AAA' and 'BBB'. My binary file's content is as follow: <Data1.1>AAA<Data1.2>BBB <Data2.1>AAA<Data2.2>BBB ... <DataN.1>AAA<DataN.2>BBB DataX.Y might have any length, and contains any kind of special/printable... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Guys Following input line is from /etc/group file.As we know last entry in a line of /etc/group is userlist (all the users belonging to that group). I need to splilt this one line into 3 lines as shown below (3 because userlist has 3 names in it). Input: lp:!:11:root,lp,printq ... (13 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I'm having a little trouble solving a file split I need to get done. I have the following data: 1. Light 1A. Light Soft texture: it's soft color: the color value is that of something light vital statistics: srm: 23 og: 1.035 sp: 1.065 comment: this is nice if you like... (8 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello! Have some problem with extract files from saved session. File contains any kind of special/printable characters. DATA NumberA DATA DATA Begin DATA1.1 DATA1.2 NumberB1 DATA1.3 DATA1.4 End DATA DATA DATA Begin DATA2.1 DATA2.2 NumberB2 DATA2.3 DATA2.4 End DATA DATA ... (4 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I want to know how I can remove the last characters of ANY pdf file. I read it under "od" in the command shell to see which were the last characters: $od corruptedfile.pdf -c When I see the file, I need to keep only the last characters, or "end of the file": %EOF (obviously keeping all... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, can some one please help me to split the file based on groups. like in the below scenario x indicates the begining of the group and the file should be split each with 2 groups below there are 10 groups it should create 5 files. could you please help? (4 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have a text file with the following text in it: file:///About/accessibility.html file:///About/disclaimer.html file:///About/disclaimer.html#disclaimer file:///pubmed?term=%22Dacre%20I%22%5BAuthor%5D file:///pubmed?term=%22Madigan%20J%22%5BAuthor%5D... (8 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, Iam new to unix scripting and I want a split a string into 4 characters each, leaving the last two characters and convert the splitted values into binary. For example: string='ffd80012ffe20000ffebfffeffea0007fff0ffd70014fff1fff0fff0fff201' this should split as ffd8 0012 ffe2 . .... (5 Replies)

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Hello, I have a string like this 0:1:2:0:2:2:4:0:0:0:-200:500...... what i want is to break down how many different characters are there and their count. For example for above string it should display 0 - 5 times 1 - 1 times 2 - 3 times 4 - 1 times . . . I am stuck in writing... (8 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a requirement to split a huge file to smaller text files based on first four characters which look like ABCD 1234 DFGH RREX : : : : : 0000 Each of these records are OF EQUAL bytes with a different internal layout based on the above first digit identifier.. Any help to start... (5 Replies)