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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace col 23 - 26 with new value, non delimited file Post 302815453 by Don Cragun on Friday 31st of May 2013 07:19:52 PM
Old 05-31-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by blt123
i'm getting an error saying command garbled:
sed: command garbled: s/\(^.\{22\}\)..../\10603/s/\(^.\{29\}\)\( *\)-/\1\2s/s/\(^.\{29\}\)\( *\)[ +]\([0-9.]\)/\1\2-\3/s/\(^.\{29\}\)\( *\)s/\1\2 /p

i really need to concentrate on the second change - getting the amount column to be flipped from neg to pos and pos to neg = thanks!
It looks like you pasted everything into 1 line instead of keeping the five lines I posted.

If you insist on making it a single line, you can try:
Code:
sed -n 's/\(^.\{22\}\)..../\10603/;s/\(^.\{29\}\)\( *\)-/\1\2s/;s/\(^.\{29\}\)\( *\)[ +]\([0-9.]\)/\1\2-\3/;s/\(^.\{29\}\)\( *\)s/\1\2 /;p' inputfile

but I MUCH prefer code where I can more easily see the relationship between the changes made by the last three substitute commands than having something that hides those relationships on a single line.

Both of them produce the output:
Code:
99999999999999930531130603AUD                        -176938000.000000                                                 S1HHHHHHH079928    ST HHHHHHH079928                                                                          
99999999999999930531130603AUD                         205866000.000000                                                 M19887777777766    MA 9887777777766                                                                          
99999999999999930531130603CAD                         -16179000.000000                                                 S1HHHHHHH079904    ST HHHHHHH079904                                                                          
99999999999999930531130603CAD                          15374000.000000                                                 M19887777777742    MA 9887777777742

with the sed on OS X with the latest update to your input. In addition to changing a - to a space and a space to a - in the last column before the first digit in that field, it will also change a + to a - in that position. This should work with any sed utility that conforms to the POSIX standards and the Single UNIX Specification.
 

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diffmk(1)							   User Commands							 diffmk(1)

NAME
diffmk - mark differences between versions of a troff input file SYNOPSIS
diffmk oldfile newfile markedfile DESCRIPTION
diffmk compares two versions of a file and creates a third version that includes "change mark" (.mc) commands for nroff(1) and troff(1). oldfile and newfile are the old and new versions of the file. diffmk generates markedfile, which, contains the text from newfile with troff(1) "change mark" requests (.mc) inserted where newfile differs from oldfile. When markedfile is formatted, changed or inserted text is shown by | at the right margin of each line. The position of deleted text is shown by a single *. USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of diffmk when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes). EXAMPLES
Example 1 An example of the diffmk command. diffmk can also be used in conjunction with the proper troff requests to produce program listings with marked changes. In the following command line: example% diffmk old.c new.c marked.c ; nroff reqs marked.c | pr the file reqs contains the following troff requests: .pl 1 .ll 77 .nf .eo .nh which eliminate page breaks, adjust the line length, set no-fill mode, ignore escape characters, and turn off hyphenation, respectively. If the characters | and * are inappropriate, you might run markedfile through sed(1) to globally change them. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWdoc | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
diff(1), nroff(1), sed(1), troff(1), attributes(5), largefile(5) BUGS
Aesthetic considerations may dictate manual adjustment of some output. File differences involving only formatting requests may produce undesirable output, that is, replacing .sp by .sp 2 will produce a "change mark" on the preceding or following line of output. SunOS 5.11 14 Sep 1992 diffmk(1)
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