1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Can anyone please give me the grep command to find all the lines in a file that exceed 80 columns Thanks, gubbala (8 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

HI All I need a shell script ehich removes all special characters from file and converts the file to UTF-* format Specail characters to be removed must be configurable. strIllegal = @"?/><,:;""'{|\\+=-)(*&^%$#@!~`"; Please help me in getting this script as my scripting skilla are... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have to write s script to check an input file for invalid characters. In this script I have to find the exact line of the invalid character. If the input file contain 2 invalid character sat line 10 and 17, the script will show the value 10 and 17. Any help is appreciated. (3 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Dear Members, For example i have a file which contains 10 lines as below: 123testing gopjp jg9459\ 834789rh fh456 47rf 497rvg 409748\ 08ntr i need the first three characters of the first line of the file. if i use cut -c 1-3 < sample.txtits displaying the 1st three... (8 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a file with about 25 colums separated with '~', but few of the lines have extra tabs ('^') and new line characters ('$'). Is there a way I can delete those characters if they are anywhere before the 25th column in a line? example: CLUB000650;12345678;0087788667;NOOP MEMBER ... (4 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am creating a script to do a find and replace single/multiple lines in a file with any number of lines. I have written a logic in a script that reads a reference file say "findrep" and populates two variables $FIND and $REPLACE print $FIND gives Hi How r $u Rahul() Note:... (0 Replies)

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I plan to use sed in a script to replace a string. My problem is the last 6 characters of the word to be replaced can be different each time, plus it's not always in the same spot on the line so I can't use cut or nawk to get the field. So I am looking for a way to find a certain word in a file,... (6 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I have several xml files from which I want to find and return a particular string I want to locate the InId="00000008". Now that is inlcuded within a tag and ofcourse the number is different every time this is what I came up with given that after greping the line that contains the... (6 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi....I have a xml file which is having lots of special characters which I need to find out and put the distinct list of those into a text file. The list of special characters is not specific, it can be anything at different point of time. Can anyone help me to find out the same and list out? ... (10 Replies)

10. Programming

Hi, I have some files in a folder. I need to find first 5 characters in the file name of every file and write those into a file. Example: ABC126_ACCPT.txt AYA127_ACCPT.txt Output in the file: ABC126 AYA127 (3 Replies)