thanks for you help - with these hints I could solve the problem.
@Scrutinizer: Thats exactly what I need. Strictly speaking I needed it for a file, but to redirect the output to a file is no problem:
@Girish19: With this statement I have the first 100 characters, but my problem was to have a file without these 100 characters. But nevertheless this is a very useful hint to extract the first 100 characters. I could use it at another position in my script.
Hi Friends
I have a file
like
sample1.txt
------------
10998909.txt
10898990.txt
1898772222.txt
8980000000000.txt
I need to take first 3 characters of each line in a file and i need to print it '
like loop
109
108
189
898 (7 Replies)
I know this sounds simple, but I have a logfile with
> something
> something_else
> another_entry
...
how do I cut the first 2 characters off the left side? I tried to use
cut -c 1-2 somefile > someotherfile
but that just cut gave me the 2 left characters, I want to cut those out... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
Need to convert file names to upper case using tr command in Unix.
In a folder -> /apps/dd01/misc
there are two files like:
pi-abcd567sd.pdf
pi-efgh1.pdf
The output of should be like:
pi-ABCD567SD.pdf
pi-EFGH1.pdf
I have used the command to work as below:
for f... (3 Replies)
Guys,
can you help me in doing cut first 21 and 32-35 characters from file.
I tried with cut -c to cut first 21 characters ,It is succeeded.
But i need both first 21 and 32-35. (1 Reply)
hello everybody
i am looking for a shell to cut a flat file (with a long unique line) according to a certain number of characters and redirect every result to an output file.
here is an example
MyFile :
12 3 456 12 3 456 12 3 456 .....
and i took every 9-characters including BLANKS... (6 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
I am trying to execute the below command. However the output shows the value + path of the folder where the command is being executed. But I am only interested in the value but not the path.
du -hs /aps/inf/SeLogs
when I execute the above command, output is
32G... (5 Replies)
I need to cut the last seven characters of a variable length variable. The variable may be 7 characters or 70. I need to always be able to grab the last 7 characters. I looked at the cut command but it always seems to want to start at the beginning of a line, not the end and count backwards.
... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I would like to cut last 13 characters of a file name and take the rename the file name as follows:
Input:
A.DAT20110517033732
Output:
A.DAT
I have tried the following command and cut last 13 characters.
echo A.DAT20110517033732 | awk '{print substr($0, length($0)-13)}'
... (3 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
i have a file 1.txt
<a><a"" dd>aaaaauweopriuew</f><">!(^)!</aa></ff>
<a><a"" dd>bbbbbuweopriuew</f><">!(^*)!</aa></ff>
i know i can use
perl -p -i -e "s/>aaaaa/aa/g" 1.txt
perl -p -i -e "s/>bbbbb/bb/g" 1.txt
to acheive only keep the first two characters of the five characters,... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: jimmy_y
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perlio::via::symlink
symlink(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation symlink(3pm)NAME
PerlIO::via::symlink - PerlIO layers for create symlinks
SYNOPSIS
open $fh, '>:via(symlink)', $fname;
print $fh "link foobar";
close $fh;
DESCRIPTION
The PerlIO layer "symlink" allows you to create a symbolic link by writing to the file handle.
You need to write C"link $name" to the file handle. If the format does not match, "close" will fail with EINVAL.
TEST COVERAGE ----------------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
File stmt branch cond sub time total
----------------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
blib/lib/PerlIO/via/symlink.pm 100.0 100.0 n/a 100.0 100.0 100.0
Total 100.0 100.0 n/a 100.0 100.0 100.0
----------------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
AUTHORS
Chia-liang Kao <clkao@clkao.org>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2004-2005 by Chia-liang Kao <clkao@clkao.org>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>
perl v5.8.8 2005-04-21 symlink(3pm)