This request, or highly similar ones, have been covered in these fora umpteen times. Did you consider a search upfront?
Depending on your system version, this may do:
Please be aware that it looks for the combination you specified; should there be e.g. a single "|" at line end, a "|"\r combination will be added.
Hi,
I have a situation to append spaces to end of first record (header)and last record (footer) based on second record length.
The first record length is always 20.The second record will be different for different files.I have to append spaces for the first line based on second record... (2 Replies)
I have file called xx
Now i want to rename this file as xxYYYYMMDD_HHMIAM.xls
Here is my code..
export DATE1=`date +%Y%m%d`
mv xx xx$DATE1
This code renames as xxYYYYMMDD
Now how can i append HHMIAM at the end of the file?
Any help is appreciated... (3 Replies)
Hello, I wanted to append 'XYZ' at the end of the text file. How can i do this?
I searched the forums and i am not getting what i want. Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks (2 Replies)
I have searched the forms and I can not find info on appending each line of one file to the same line of another file. I know that I can cat one file to another or append the 2nd file to the end of the 1st but not quite sure how to append one line of data to another. For example
File 1 has ... (2 Replies)
I keep trying to append some astrix to the end of a line, but it keeps overwriting at the front of the line.
These are the originals
Fred Fardbarkle:674-843-1385:20 Parak Lane, Duluth, MN 23850:4/12/23:780900
Fred Fardbarkle:674-843-1385:20 Parak Lane, Duluth, MN 23850:4/12/23:780900
... (5 Replies)
I know that windows uses CRLF as a end of line character while Unix uses LF. But visually i could not see any difference in files while creating on either of plat forms.
CR (Carriage Return) means to bring cursor to beginning of line while LF (Line feed) means to bring cursor to next line... (5 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have serveral directories like this:
(2013) blablabla(blabla) - blabla (blabla)
or
(1997) blablabla(blabla) - blabla (blabla)
and have to rename them to something like that:
blablabla(blabla) - blabla (blabla) (2013)
and
blablabla(blabla) - blabla (blabla) (1997)
Easy... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Here i'm using a awk inside bash script to validate the datafile by referring to the configuration file(schema file).
Here the validation check is done for datatype, field length and null values.
Once the validation is done on data file the error records are moved to the bad file. So... (22 Replies)
I have a text file in which all records end with pipe character and newline, but a few do not have a pipe at the end.
Something like this
1|John|32|US|
2|Matt|35|UK
3|Rex|36|EU|
So in the above example the second line does not have a pipe at the end
My requirement is to append a... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: abhilashnair
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script
script(1) User Commands script(1)NAME
script - make record of a terminal session
SYNOPSIS
script [-a] [filename]
DESCRIPTION
The script utility makes a record of everything printed on your screen. The record is written to filename. If no file name is given, the
record is saved in the file typescript. See WARNINGS.
The script command forks and creates a sub-shell, according to the value of $SHELL, and records the text from this session. The script ends
when the forked shell exits or when Control-d is typed.
OPTIONS
The following option is supported:
-a Appends the session record to filename, rather than overwriting it.
NOTES
script places everything that appears on the screen in filename, including prompts.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|CSI |Enabled |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO attributes(5)WARNINGS
script can pose a security risk when used in directories that are writable by other users (for example, /tmp), especially when run by a
privileged user, that is, root. Be sure that typescript is not a link before running script.
SunOS 5.11 30 Jan 2004 script(1)