How to remove exisiting file content from a file and have to append new file content?
hi all,
i had the below script
by using above script i am able to remove the head and tail part from the input file and able to append the output to the output.txt but if i run it for second time the output is getting appended to the existing output file...i want to clear the content of the file before appending the output...how i can i acheive it ..?
hey all, I have a file with records in following format
8-29-2006 13:01:45|ABC|45
8-29-2006 14:23:12|DEF|21
8-30-2006 00:04:57|ABC|34
I want to remove all yesterday records. Can anyone show me how? Thanks! (10 Replies)
i am a bit new to shell scripting
i have a file containing
xxxx xx xx
but i want to output the content as
xxxxxxxx.
thus removing the space.
any idea how i can do this (4 Replies)
Hi, I have a file called fl_list consists of files i have to archive. I want to create a exception parm called except_parm, so if it finds the directory it will not archive these files and remove from fl_list.
$ cat fl_list
/apps/dev/ihub/ready/IA003B/IA003B_Deal_Header_yyyymmdd_hhmmss.txt... (1 Reply)
File Format
ABC|ABC|ABC|
need to add another text after last | which would a unix command output.
---------- Post updated at 02:05 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:45 PM ----------
wc -l file| awk '{print $1}' | sed 's/$//' >> existingfile
It still adds to new line (4 Replies)
hi people,
i have texts down.txt and down-new.txt and i want to check;
- if down-new.txt is NOT empty, then write date and its content to /home/gc_sw/down.txt
for example;
down.txt:AAAA
SSSS
down-new.txt:123
456
and after checking down-new.txt is NOT empty, down.txt should... (10 Replies)
Hi All,
I want to remove the content based on the header information .
Please find the example below.
File1.txt
Name|Last|First|Location|DepId|Depname|DepLoc
naga|rr|tion|hyd|1|wer|opr
Nava|ra|tin|gen|2|wera|opra
I have to search for the DepId and remove the data from the... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I am having trouble while using 'sed' with reading files. Please help. I have 3 files. File A, file B and file C. I want to find content of file B in file A and replace it by content in file C.
Thanks a lot!!
Here is a sample of my question.
e.g. (file A: a.txt; file B: b.txt; file... (3 Replies)
Hi ladies and gentleman.. I have two text file with me. I need to replace one of the file content to another file if one both files have a matching pattern.
Example:
text1.txt:
ABCD 1234567,HELLO_WORLDA,HELLO_WORLDB
DCBA 3456789,HELLO_WORLDE,HELLO_WORLDF
text2.txt:
XXXX,ABCD... (25 Replies)
Hi/ Hello all Guru here,
I am trying to create script to remove same content from other file, already tested few idea and found that in unix it is limited to sort and uniq. There is many script for removing duplicate content however to delete all same content is non. Need your help and guide .... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I have a test.zip archive that contains
test.zip --> (file_1.txt, file_2.txt , file_3.txt)
I need to unzip the file like this,
file_1_timestamp.txt
file_1_timestamp.trg
file_2_timestamp.txt
file_2_timestamp.trg
file_3_timestamp.txt
file_3_timestamp.trg
Could you please let me know... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Shandel
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dos2unix(1) General Commands Manual dos2unix(1)NAME
dos2unix - DOS/MAC to UNIX text file format converter
SYNOPSYS
dos2unix [options] [-c convmode] [-o file ...] [-n infile outfile ...]
Options:
[-hkqV] [--help] [--keepdate] [--quiet] [--version]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents dos2unix, the program that converts plain text files in DOS/MAC format to UNIX format.
OPTIONS
The following options are available:
-h --help
Print online help.
-k --keepdate
Keep the date stamp of output file same as input file.
-q --quiet
Quiet mode. Suppress all warning and messages.
-V --version
Prints version information.
-c --convmode convmode
Sets conversion mode. Simulates dos2unix under SunOS.
-o --oldfile file ...
Old file mode. Convert the file and write output to it. The program default to run in this mode. Wildcard names may be used.
-n --newfile infile outfile ...
New file mode. Convert the infile and write output to outfile. File names must be given in pairs and wildcard names should NOT be
used or you WILL lost your files.
EXAMPLES
Get input from stdin and write output to stdout.
dos2unix
Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt.
dos2unix a.txt b.txt
dos2unix -o a.txt b.txt
Convert and replace a.txt in ASCII conversion mode. Convert and replace b.txt in ISO conversion mode. Convert c.txt from Mac to Unix
ascii format.
dos2unix a.txt -c iso b.txt
dos2unix -c ascii a.txt -c iso b.txt
dos2unix -c mac a.txt b.txt
Convert and replace a.txt while keeping original date stamp.
dos2unix -k a.txt
dos2unix -k -o a.txt
Convert a.txt and write to e.txt.
dos2unix -n a.txt e.txt
Convert a.txt and write to e.txt, keep date stamp of e.txt same as a.txt.
dos2unix -k -n a.txt e.txt
Convert and replace a.txt. Convert b.txt and write to e.txt.
dos2unix a.txt -n b.txt e.txt
dos2unix -o a.txt -n b.txt e.txt
Convert c.txt and write to e.txt. Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt. Convert d.txt and write to f.txt.
dos2unix -n c.txt e.txt -o a.txt b.txt -n d.txt f.txt
DIAGNOSTICS BUGS
The program does not work properly under MSDOS in stdio processing mode. If you know why is that so, please tell me.
AUTHORS
Benjamin Lin - <blin@socs.uts.edu.au>
Bernd Johannes Wuebben (mac2unix mode) <wuebben@kde.org>
MISCELLANY
Tested environment:
Linux 1.2.0 with GNU C 2.5.8
SunOS 4.1.3 with GNU C 2.6.3
MS-DOS 6.20 with Borland C++ 4.02
Suggestions and bug reports are welcome.
SEE ALSO unix2dos(1)mac2unix(1)1995.03.31 dos2unix v3.0 dos2unix(1)