I have a large dat file where each lines are pipe delimited values. I need to parse the file depending on the request. For example: sometimes I have told to remove all the values in the 7th column (this case remove values '3333' only from the first line and '3543' from the second line) from the file. As the file contains thousands of lines, I need to find a way that can be done easily. I know it can be done by sed or perl but with my limited knowledge I am not able to figured it out.
Note that from time to time I need to remove values from nth column.
Input:
Output:
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Last edited by Don Cragun; 04-22-2014 at 01:05 AM..
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hi,
How can I check for a field in a pipe-delimited file having a NULL value in Unix using a grep command or any other command.
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I have file with multiple columns. Column values for a record may be same.
Now i have to replace a column value(this can be same for the other columns) with new value.
File.txt
A,B,C,D,A,B,C,D,A,B,C,D
A,B,C,D,A,B,C,D,A,B,C,D
A,B,C,D,A,B,C,D,A,B,C,D
A,B,C,D,A,B,C,D,A,B,C,D... (1 Reply)
Hi this is my first time posting ever. I'm relatively new in using AWK/SED, I've been trying many a solution. I'm trying to replace the 59th column in a file where if I encounter '' then I would like to replace it with the word NULL.
example
0 , '' , '' , 0 , 195.538462
change it to
0... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a pipe delimited txt file which contains 17 fields per line/row.
16th field contains email id. I want to count the number of lines/rows that contains null in the 16th field.
Plz find attached example data file.
I'm looking for a command line/script which achieves this.
... (5 Replies)
hi,
I have pipe delimited flat file as below
1|ab|4.5|9|
2|ac|3|12|
3|ac|4.5|8|
i want to show (display) only 3rd field between pipes.
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Hi,
I am trying to find the lines in a pipe delimited file where 11th column has not null values. Any help is appreciated. Need help asap please.
thanks in advance. (3 Replies)
Hi All, I will need an help with respect to replacing a range of columns on a non-delimited file using a particular string pattern.
Say file input is
MYNUMBERD000000-BAN CHUE INSNTS ** N+
MYAREDSDD000000+BAN CHUE INSNTS ** N+
MYDERFFFSD00000-GIR PENT - ACH ** ... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a pipe delimited file as below and I need to replace the 2nd column of each line with null values.
1|10/15/2011|fname1|lname1
2|10/15/2012|fname2|lname2
3|10/15/2013|fname3|lname3
Output file:
1||fname1|lname1
2||fname2|lname2
3||fname3|lname3
I tried this
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Hi,
I have a requirement where I have to check whether the mandatory columns in a pipe delimited file is null and print error message.
For eg, I have to check if the 3rd,5th,6th,7th and 8th column are null and print the message "<column name> is null".
The data file will have aroung 100,000... (6 Replies)
I have an input file as below
Emp1|FirstName|MiddleName|LastName|Address|Pincode|PhoneNumber
1234|FirstName1|MiddleName2|LastName3| Add1 || ADD2|123|000000000
Output :
1234|FirstName1|MiddleName2|LastName3| Add1 ,, ADD2|123|000000000
OR
1234,FirstName1,MiddleName2,LastName3, Add1 ||... (2 Replies)
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column
COLUMN(1) BSD General Commands Manual COLUMN(1)NAME
column -- columnate lists
SYNOPSIS
column [-tx] [-c columns] [-s sep] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The column utility formats its input into multiple columns. Rows are filled before columns. Input is taken from file operands, or, by
default, from the standard input. Empty lines are ignored.
The options are as follows:
-c Output is formatted for a display columns wide.
-s Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the -t option.
-t Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with
the characters supplied using the -s option. Useful for pretty-printing displays.
-x Fill columns before filling rows.
ENVIRONMENT
The COLUMNS, LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of column as described in environ(7).
EXIT STATUS
The column utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
(printf "PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY " ;
printf "HH:MM/YEAR NAME
" ;
ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t
SEE ALSO colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1)HISTORY
The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.
BUGS
Input lines are limited to LINE_MAX (2048) bytes in length.
BSD July 29, 2004 BSD