1. Linux

say i have these many file in a directory named exam. 1)/exam/newfolder/link.txt. 2)/exam/newfolder1/ and i create a tar say exam.tar well the problem is, when i read the tar file i dont find any metadata about the directories,as you cannot create a tar containig empty directories. on the... (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear all, I have a file created in the name sample.txt in UNIX with header and footer. How to insert a required string (for example "FILE1") in the header part after the file has been created. What kind of command can i use to do the same. Thanks in advance Hari (3 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have several txt files i need to enter specific header and footer (both are separate) to all these files how can i do this? plz help.. Regards, Raghav (4 Replies)

4. Ubuntu

Hi; I've been searching posts to find a solution to what I'm trying to do, but I've have NOT found anything yet. I have a file (file1) with 300K columns and 1411 rows, the columns don't have a column no. header (No header at all) and I'm trying to fetch the information from specific columns.... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Experts, In our project we have requirement where in we have to compare header of one file with header in the parameter file. There are 20 files which we ftp from one site. All this files have different header. We are comapring this file with our parameter file(which is having the header... (2 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Friends, I need help with the following in UNIX. Merge all csv files in one folder considering only 1 header row and ignoring header of all other files. FYI - All files are in same format and contains same headers. Thank you (4 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Experts, I have a file which contain hundreds of records/lines. I want to insert the below header in the file after every 60 lines. #Header FirstName LastName Address --------- ---------- --------- Let say I saved the... (6 Replies)

8. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

I would like to hear your directions on how to Insert theses tag </TITLE> and <TEXT> at a given position in 1000 of text files. My Files look like as samplefile1.txt <DOC> <DOCNO>3_September_2012</DOCNO> <TITLE> ... ... ... .... ... .. .. .. ... .. .. .... </TITLE> <TEXT> .... (1 Reply)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am trying to insert header row with a special character delimiter with Unicode u0109 into a file with ‘echo’, header looks like below echo –e “header1\u0109header\u0109header3\u0109header4” It just inserting as it is in the quotes but not the special character, Please suggest if am... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I've been struggling with this one for quite a while and cannot seem to find a solution for this find/replace scenario. Perhaps I'm getting rusty. I have a file that contains a number of metrics (exactly 3 fields per line) from a few appliances that are collected in parallel. To identify the... (3 Replies)