1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, Below is my input file's content ( in HP-UX platform ): ABCD120672-B21 1 ABCD142257-002 1 ABCD142257-003 1 ABCD142257-006 1 From the above, I just want to get the field of 13 characters that comes after 'ABCD' i.e '120672-B21'... . Could you please let me know the shell script... (3 Replies)

2. Solaris

what my code is doing, it is executing a sql file and the resullset of the query is getting stored in the text file in a fixed format. for that fixed format i have used the following code:: Code: awk -F":"... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a text file like: "10","server","","11111",JLB, I need a way to say if the 3rd field has data in it, move the contents of the entire line to a new file. Any ideas? Thanks, (5 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, In source data few of columns are having special charates(like *) due to this i am not able to display the data into flat file.it's displaying the some of junk data into the flat file. source dataExample: Address1="XDERFTG * HYJUYTG" how to remove the special charates in a string (2 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all, I've been stuck on how to write a command in awk that looks at two columns and only prints entries where one of the columns has more than or less than a 3 character difference. I need to be able to compare any two columns preferably, but as an example, comparing columns 3 and 4 example... (9 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Thank you for 4 looking this post. We have a tab delimited file where we are facing problem in a lot of funny character. I have tried using awk but failed that is not working. In the 5th field ID which is supposed to be a integer only of that file, we are getting corrupted data as below. I... (12 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I wrote myself a small little shell script to clean up a file I have issues with. In particular, I am stripping down a fully qualified host/domain name to just the hostname itself. The script works, but from a performance standpoint, it's not very fast and I will be working with large data sets. ... (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

The awk below produces the current output, which will add +1 to $3. However, I am trying to add the length of the matching characters between $5 and $6 to $3. I have tried using sub as a variable to store the length but am not able to do so correctly. I added comments to each line and the... (4 Replies)