1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How would I delete white spaces in a specified file? Also, I'd like to know what command I would use to take something off a regular expression, and put it onto another. ie. . . . expression1 <take_off> . . . expression2 (put here) . . . Any help would be great, thanks! (10 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to strip all leading and trailing spaces of a shell variable using either awk or sed or any other utility, however unscuccessful and need your help. echo $SH_VAR | command_line Syntax. The SH_VAR contains embedded spaces which needs to be preserved. I need only for the leading and... (6 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi all... i have the next question: i have a flat file with a lot of records (lines). Each record has 10 fields, which are separated by pipe (|). My problem is what sometimes, in the first record, there are white spaces (no values, nothing) in the beginning of the record, like this: ws ws... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a variable that calls in a string from txt file. Problem is the string comes with an abundance of white spaces trailing it. Is there any easy way to trim the tailing white spaces off at the end? Thanks in advance. (9 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I tried to extract 19 characters (default) enclosed with in tag from a file using cut command. If the characters comprises of double space, the cut command gives the output with a single spacing. file 1 <name>Kumar Rajasekaran</name> cut -c7-26 "file1" the out put i received is ... (48 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

SHELL SCRIPT Hi I have a file in the following format Mayank Sushant Dheeraj Kunal ARUN Samir How can i replace the white space in between and replace them with a comma?? The resultant output should be Mayank,Sushant Dheeraj,Kunal ARUN,Samir i tried using sed -e... (8 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am having problem in deleting the leading spaces:- cat x.csv baseball,NULL,8798765,Most played baseball,NULL,8928192,Most played baseball,NULL,5678945,Most played cricket,NOTNULL,125782,Usually played cricket,NOTNULL,678921,Usually played $ nawk 'BEGIN{FS=","}!a... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

please somebody tell me what is wrong with this, while the thumbnail grabbing works and encoding works, but what is not working is, mv $i.jpg /var/www/thumbs/ and mv $i.mp4 /var/www/uploads/ #!/bin/bash # MINT 9 - FFMPEG - QT-FASTSTART - X264 - MP4 DIR=/var/www/tmp for i in... (9 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I've a requirement as below Source file src.txt sample data: A<10 white spaces>B12<5 white spaces>C<17 white spaces> A1<5 white spaces>B22<5 white spaces>C13<17 white spaces> when I'm fetching a record from this file into a shell variable like below: vRec=`head -1 src.txt... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello All, I have a comma separated file which needs to be loaded to the database. But, I need to trim the white spaces for a specific column before its loaded. Below is the sample line from the input file: 690,690,0575,"01011940","01011940", , , , , ,36720,36722,V2020,V2999,... (6 Replies)