Thanks for you reply. It helped me a lot. But that is not working for one scenario. If that corrupted records is splitted into 3 lines (as mentioned in example) then it is removing the entire data in the 5th field & also from the successive fields. Let's see some examples:
Input:
Expected Output:
Actual Output: (6th field is cutted from the row)
Your original problem did not say anything about multi-line records.
Your original problem clearly showed that the lines starting with Record in your input file were not supposed to be copied to your output file, but now you say that those lines should be copied to the output.
The script I gave you works perfectly for any input that you described in your original problem statement.
Before we make another attempt to help you, you need to clearly describe your input file format and what you want to appear in the output. Start by answering the following questions and then add any other information we need to know to help you get code that will do what you want:
Are input lines starting with Record supposed to be copied to the output?
Can <newline> characters appear in any field other than field 5?
Should the output ever have more than one line of output per input (multi-line) record?
Can <tab> characters ever appear in any field?
Can double-quote characters (") ever appear in any field other than as the 1st and last characters in the field?
Do all input fields have double-quote characters as the 1st and last character in every field?
Are the <newline> characters in your input file data in that field, or is there a fixed input line length that adds <newline> characters to enforce the input line length maximum?
Can <newline> characters ever appear in an input record other than as the last character in a record and in character positions that are integral multiples of 80?
Is there a maximum number of characters in the output file format?
Hi all,
I have a file with single white space delimited values, I want to convert them to a tab delimited file.
I tried sed, tr ... but nothing is working.
Thanks,
Rajeevan D (16 Replies)
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)
I have a folder that contains say 50 files in a sequential order:
cdf_1.txt
cdf_2.txt
cdf_3.txt
cdf_3.txt
.
.
.
cdf_50.txt.
I need to merge these files in the same order into a single tab delimited file.
I used the following shell script:
for x in {1..50};
do cat cdf_${x}.txt >>... (3 Replies)
Hi,
In source data few of columns are having special charates(like *) due to this i am not able to display the data into flat file.it's displaying the some of junk data into the flat file.
source dataExample:
Address1="XDERFTG * HYJUYTG"
how to remove the special charates in a string (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a space delimited text file but I only want to change the first space to a tab and keep the rest of the spaces intact. How do I go about doing that? Thanks! (3 Replies)
Hi How to make tab delimited file to space delimited?
in put file:
ABC kgy
jkh ghj
ash kjl
o/p file:
ABC kgy
jkh ghj
ash kjl
Use code tags, thanks. (1 Reply)
Hello,
I have a text file with space and tab (mixed) delimited file and need to convert into CSV.
# cat test.txt
/dev/rmt/tsmmt32 HP Ultrium 6-SCSI J3LZ 50:03:08:c0:02:72:c0:b5 F00272C0B5 0/0/6/1/1.145.17.255.0.0.0 /dev/rmt/c102t0d0BEST
/dev/rmt/tsmmt37 ... (6 Replies)
Hello,
I have some tab delimited files that may contain blank columns. I would like to delete the blank columns if they exist. There is no clear pattern for when a blank occurs.
I was thinking of using sed to replace instances of double tab with blank,
sed 's/\t\t//g'
All of the examples... (2 Replies)
Input file:
xyz,pqrs.lmno,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA
abcd,pqrs.xyz,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA
Expected Output:
xyz pqrs.lmno NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
abcd pqrs.xyz NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Command Tried so far:
awk -F"," 'BEGIN{OFS=" ";} {print}' $File_Path/File_Name.csv
Issue:... (5 Replies)