Hi Alister,
Thanks for your reply, let me realize that the while - read loop is totally unnecessary, I made the problem more complicated, since it is so simple. and you are very right that without set the IFS, the read line would trim the leading spaces.
I think this is a simple solution, thanks again, thanks.
This worked perfectly, thank you.
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Originally Posted by Lucas_0418
Hi Alister,
Thanks for your reply, let me realize that the while - read loop is totally unnecessary, I made the problem more complicated, since it is so simple. and you are very right that without set the IFS, the read line would trim the leading spaces.
I think this is a simple solution, thanks again, thanks.
Hello, sorry, but actually, what is this line of code for?
because if I try
./function file.txt
it returns this line first
and then it is followed with the correct output. Why is that? How do I get rid of the first line?
Hello all
i have big test file that has allot of structure text something like this :
<foo1 *.html>
<blah action>
somthing 1
somthing 2
</blah>
</foo1 >
now i will like to insert 2 more lines of text below the <blah action>
so it will be like :
<foo1... (1 Reply)
All,
I'm a newbie at shell scripting and regular expressions and I just need to take a file that's arranged like the one below, remove all leading and trailing whitespace and add a line break after each word. I've been able to remove a few spaces using various awk, sed and Perl scripts, but... (7 Replies)
Greetings
I need to replace "whitespace" in a file with the newline character aka carriage return
My command is either wrong or not interpreted properly by me shell
sed s/" "/\\n" "/g nets > nets1
or
sed s/" "/\n" "/g nets > nets1
nets (input file)
13MHZ_IN... (4 Replies)
Hi
Following is an example line.
echo "192.22.22.22 \"33dffwef\" 200 300 dsdsd" | sed "s:\(\ *\ \):\1:"
I want it's output to be
200
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...when the lines use both a colon and commas to separate the parts you want read as information.
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I cannot seem to get this to work..
I have a file which has about 100 lines, and there is no end of line (line break \n) at the end of each line, and this is causing problem when i paste them into an application.
the file looks like this
this is a test
that is a test
balblblablblhblbha... (1 Reply)
Hi All.
How can I convert this:
ABC_1_1
ABC_1_2
ABC_1_3
into this:
ABC_1 1
ABC_1 2
ABC_1 3
I tried this command but it is not working:
awk '{sub(/+$/,"\t", $1)}{print}'
Any suggestions on how to fix this?
Thank you :wall:
Please use code tags when posting data and... (3 Replies)
Hello everyone!
I'm trying to make the below file1 look like file2, can anyone help?
Basically I just hit backspace on every line that starts with a number.
Thanks!
file1:
THIS#IS-IT1
4
THIS#IS-IT2
3
THIS#IS-IT3
2
THIS#IS-IT4
1
Result > file2: (4 Replies)
Hello is it possible with awk or sed to replace any white space with the previous line characters in the same position?
I am asking this because the file I have doesn't always follow a pattern.
For example the file I have is the result of a command to obtain windows ACLs:
icacls C:\ /t... (5 Replies)