That is interesting, but the lines marked in red above do no match what was requested. The request was to replace lines starting with a "2" with two lines where the 1st replacement line contains the 1st five characters of that line and the 2nd replacement line contains the rest of that line.
Your code adds two lines instead of replacing one line with two, and the 1st added line only contains the 1st four characters from that line instead of the 1st five characters.
I'm trying to insert a single character at position 11 in everyline of a file.
My input file looks like this:
456781 ~Y~12345
456782 ~N~12300
and I want my output to look like this:
45678~1 ~Y~12345
45678~2 ~N~12300
I tried the following awk code, but it's not working:... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have a log file generated by a tool which has the following look :
/tmp/releases/directory/datefilename1_release_date.zip
/tmp/releases/directory/datefilename2_release_date.zip
/tmp/releases/directory/datefilename3_release_date.zip... (8 Replies)
Hi All,
I have below type file.
abc|asd|pqr|2|2|2
asc|qwe|scf|5|4|4
Pipe location and count is dynamic and coming from a variable.
I want to change it to below files.
(chnage the first pipe to 3 pipes)
abc|||asd|pqr|2|2|2
asc|||qwe|scf|5|4|4
(chnage the second pipe to 4 pipes)... (1 Reply)
Hi Experts,
I have data coming in 4 columns and there are new line characters \n in between the data. I need to remove the new line characters in the middle of the row and keep the \n character at the end of the line.
File is comma (,) seperated.
Eg:
ID,Client ,SNo,Rank
37,Airtel \n... (8 Replies)
I want to insert space in 7th position of all the lines usign vi editor or sed command
Input file
12345689010
abcdefghijk
.
.
Output file
123456 89010
abcdef ghijk
.
. (7 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a file like this
Q8N302
21-84
Q8N157
15-45
Q99996
167-201
202-251
269-318
I want to insert a character or space if the line starts with a number and I used the command
sed 's/^/#/'
But in the output file, when it inserts this character, first digit in the number is... (2 Replies)
I have a file and I can get the line with a specific pattern. I want to inset # on start of the line.
file.text
====
aa bb cc
bb hh kk
kk ll yy
dd aa kk
rr tt aa
I want to comment out the line with contain "aa"
after running the script
file.text
====
#aa bb cc
bb hh kk
kk ll... (7 Replies)
Hi,
For example, I would like to insert a pipe every 4 characters for each second field (including after the last block).
input (coma separated):
line1,AAAABBBBCCCCDDDDEEEE
line2,FFFFGGGGHHHHIIIIJJJJ
output:
line1,AAAA|BBBB|CCCC|DDDD|EEEE|
line2,FFFF|GGGG|HHHH|IIII|JJJJ|
my... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to write a shell script where it should insert character 'I' in 180th position of each line(except first and last line) of the file. Below is the script
for file in /home/test/bharat/*.RET
do
# Process file
echo "File Name=" $file
#l_fileName="${file##*/}"
... (19 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to add a new line after finding a specific String.
That is my string:
volumes:
- ${DIR_WORK}/loadbalancer/html:/var/www/html
and I want to change that file to:
volumes:
- ${DIR_WORK}/loadbalancer/html:/var/www/html
extra_hosts:
-... (4 Replies)