@maihani:
To use TAB as a field separator with sort, an actual TAB character needs to be entered using CTRL-V <TAB>
or
or if you are using bash or ksh93:
--
If there are no space characters in the fields, you could also leave it out, like sayami00 suggested..
I'm trying to use sort on a file with tab-delimited fields. I can't figure out how to tell sort to use the tab character as the field separator. I'm trying this on both an HP Unix system and on OS X (using bash on both).
Things I've tried:
sort -t\t
sort -t"\t"
sort -t\"\t\"
I've tried... (8 Replies)
I have a tab-Delimited file:
Eg:
'test' file contains:
a<tab>b<tab>c<tab>....
Based on certain condition, I wanna increase the number of lines of this file.How do I do that
Eg:
If some value in the database is 1 then one line in 'test' file is fine..
If some value in the database is 2... (1 Reply)
Hello,
Can someone help me to do this with awk or sed? I have a file with multiple lines, each line has many fields separated with a tab. I would like to add one more field holding 'na' in between the first and second fields.
old file looks like,
1, field1 field2 field3 ...
2, field1... (7 Replies)
Hello,
I have about 100 files in a directory with fields which are tab delimited. I would like to append the file name as the first field and it has to be done as many times as the total lines in the file.
For example,
myFile1.txt has the following data:
1 x y z
2 a b ... (5 Replies)
Hi Forum.
I'm struggling to find a solution for the following issue.
I have multiple files a1.txt, a2.txt, a3.txt, etc. and I would like to insert a tab-delimited header record at the beginning of each of the files.
This is my code so far but it's not working as expected.
for i in... (2 Replies)
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)
Hello!
I have a tab delimited file with values in three columns. Some values occur in all three columns, other values are present in only one or two columns. I would like to sort the file so that rows with no missing values come first, rows with one missing values come next, and rows with two... (9 Replies)
Table
ACN|NAME|CITY|CTY|NO1|NO2
115|AKKK|ASH|IND|10|15
115|AKKK|ASH|IND|20|20
115|AKKK|ASH|IND|30|35
115|AKKK|ASH|IND|30|35
112|ABC|FL|USA|15|15
112|ABC|FL|USA|25|20
112|ABC|FL|USA|25|45
i have written shell script using cut command
and awk programming getting error correct it and add... (5 Replies)
Please know that I am very new to unix and trying to learn 'on the job'. I'm only manipulating large tab-delimited files (millions of rows), but I'm stuck and don't know how to proceed with the following. Hoping for some friendly advice :)
I have 2 tab-delimited files - with differing column &... (10 Replies)
I thought I had this figured out but was wrong so am humbly asking for help.
The task is to add an additional column to FILE 1 based on records in FILE 2.
The key is in COLUMN 1 for FILE 1 and in COLUMN 1 OR COLUMN 2 for FILE 2.
I want to add the third column from FILE 2 to the beginning of... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: andmal
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
tabs
tabs(1) General Commands Manual tabs(1)NAME
tabs - set tabs on a terminal
SYNOPSIS
tabs [-v[n]] [-ahuUV] file...
DESCRIPTION
The tabs program clears and sets tab-stops on the terminal. This uses the terminfo clear_all_tabs and set_tab capabilities. If either is
absent, tabs is unable to clear/set tab-stops. The terminal should be configured to use hard tabs, e.g.,
stty tab0
OPTIONS
General Options
-Tname
Tell tabs which terminal type to use. If this option is not given, tabs will use the $TERM environment variable. If that is not set,
it will use the ansi+tabs entry.
-d The debugging option shows a ruler line, followed by two data lines. The first data line shows the expected tab-stops marked with
asterisks. The second data line shows the actual tab-stops, marked with asterisks.
-n This option tells tabs to check the options and run any debugging option, but not to modify the terminal settings.
The tabs program processes a single list of tab stops. The last option to be processed which defines a list is the one that determines the
list to be processed.
Implicit Lists
Use a single number as an option, e.g., "-5" to set tabs at the given interval (in this case 1, 6, 11, 16, 21, etc.). Tabs are repeated up
to the right margin of the screen.
Explicit Lists
An explicit list can be defined after the options (this does not use a "-"). The values in the list must be in increasing numeric order,
and greater than zero. They are separated by a comma or a blank, for example,
tabs 1,6,11,16,21
tabs 1 6 11 16 21
Use a '+' to treat a number as an increment relative to the previous value, e.g.,
tabs 1,+5,+5,+5,+5
which is equivalent to the 1,6,11,16,21 example.
Predefined Tab-Stops
X/Open defines several predefined lists of tab stops.
-a Assembler, IBM S/370, first format
-a2 Assembler, IBM S/370, second format
-c COBOL, normal format
-c2 COBOL compact format
-c3 COBOL compact format extended
-f FORTRAN
-p PL/I
-s SNOBOL
-u UNIVAC 1100 Assembler
PORTABILITY
X/Open describes a +m option, to set a terminal's left-margin. None of the entries in the terminal database provide this capability.
The -d (debug) and -n (no-op) options are extensions not provided by other implementations.
Documentation for other implementations states that there is a limit on the number of tab stops. While some terminals may not accept an
arbitrary number of tab stops, this implementation will attempt to set tab stops up to the right margin of the screen, if the given list
happens to be that long.
SEE ALSO tset(1), infocmp(1), ncurses(3NCURSES), terminfo(5).
This describes ncurses version 5.7 (patch 20100109).
tabs(1)