1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a file a.txt and it has values in it Eg :- I need to read through the file and find the number that is the greatest in them all. Can any one assit me on this. Thanks (30 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi How do I find number of lines of a file? Below commands returned 0. But, the file is showing 20 lines when I open it in editplus tool. Each line contains 601 columns. Please advise I want to incorporate some word at the begining of each of those 20 lines -Somesh $ wc -l <... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, i have text file with ~ seperated columns. it is very huge size of file, in the file sompulsary supposed to has 20 columns with ~ seperated. so how can i find if the file has 20 column in the all rows...? Sample file: APA+VU~10~~~~~03~101~101~~~APA.N O 20081017 120.00... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Thanks AVKlinux (6 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have a requirement wherein the file is comma separated. Each records seems to have different number of columns, how I can detect like a row index wise, how many columns are present ? Thanks in advance. (2 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all, may seem a very stupid question.but me stuck up in it for long.... How to find the number of columns in a ASCII file. EX:-Demo.lst songs 1 34 45 67 Number of columns should be 5. Regards, Anindya ;) (13 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi i want to ask how can i use perl and find a word in a text file, and also telling that which page doesn't it exist? Eample: have a 10 pages text file, then i need to find 'Hello' in the file, and show that which page is it contain in. Output: Hello contains 8 times in page 1, 3, 4, 7, 10... (9 Replies)

8. Solaris

Hi, bash-3.00$ ls -ltr total 8471258 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 1227 Jul 7 22:33 information_schema.sql -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 479762 Jul 7 22:49 mysql.sql -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 1974789 Jul 7 22:50 youconnect.sql -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 1355... (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I wanna find the biggest number inside of a file this is kind of example of file: 9 11 55 then i just wanna print out the biggest number i had try sed filenale | sort -k1,1n | paste -s -d',' - but i had no success ... (7 Replies)

10. AIX

How to find the number of columns in xml file. i tried following command. Code: #!bin/ksh cat $1 | grep -c "</mdm:attribute>"exit 0but i am not getting accurate result which is not matching with the manual count. data format : Code: <mdm:attribute> value </mdm:attribute> No... (1 Reply)