1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a table ,containg 2 coloumns and many rows,which is updated everyday.The no.of rows in the table changes everyday. i have to write the difference between yesterdays tabtle and todays table to a new file.The row that is new in the todays table need not to be shown.only the change... (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi every one; I have a file with 22 rows and 13 columns which includes floating numbers. I want to parse the file so that every five columns in the row would be a new record (row). For example, the first line in the old file should be converted into three lines with first two lines contain 5... (6 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Guys, I need help in modifying a large text file containing more than 1-2 lakh rows of data using unix commands. I am quite new to the unix language the text file contains data in a pipe delimited format sdfsdfs sdfsdfsd START_ROW sdfsd|sdfsdfsd|sdfsdfasdf|sdfsadf|sdfasdf... (9 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I need to remove 1st 2 line from head and last 2 line from last. I thought it would be possible by using the Head and tail command. But after i am using it is not possible by it. Example:Input file 1 2 3 4 5 Example: Output file 3 But my head and tail command are not... (12 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Help needed... Can you tell me how to compare the last two couple entries in a file and print their result in new file..:confused: I have one file Check1.txt \abc1 12345 \abc2 12327 \abc1 12345 \abc2 12330 I want to compare the entries in Check1 and write to... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi pls help me out to short out this problem rm PAB113_011.out rm: PAB113_011.out: override protection 644 (yes/no)? n If i give y it remove the file. But i added the rm command as a part of ksh file and i tried to remove the file. Its not removing and the the file prompting as... (7 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, i've a .csv file with the data as below: - file1.h, 2.0 file2.c, 3.1 file1.h, 2.5 file3.c, 3.3.3 file1.h, 1.2.3 I want to remove the duplicate file names considering only the one with the highest version number.. output should be file1.h, 2.5 file2.c, 3.1 file3.c,... (3 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have 2 files, file01= 7 columns, row unknown (but few) file02= 7 columns, row unknown (but many) now I want to create an output with the first field that is shared in both of them and then subtract the results from the rest of the fields and print there e.g. file 01 James|0|50|25|10|50|30... (1 Reply)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I would like to move the first 1000 rows of my file into an output file and then move the last 1000 rows into another output file. Any help would be great Thanks (6 Replies)

10. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I got a requirement where I need to compare two files wrt to each columns and write the corresponding difference in another file along with some identification showing mismatched columns. Pointing out the mismatched columns is my main problem statement. For example we have files like: File 1 ... (8 Replies)