How do I extract 5th to 10th characters of string as given below stored in a shell variable.
"ab cd ef gh ij kl"
How is cut to be used on this?
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Is there a way that i can get something like this to work:
Number=`expr 80 \* 10.69`
i.e. To multiply an integer by a decimal or a decimal by a decimal etc...?
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Hi,
Need to extract a string from one file and search the same in other files.
Ex:
I have file1 of hundred lines with no delimiters not even space.
I have 3 more files.
I should get 1 to 10 characters say substring from each line of file1 and search that string in rest of the files and get... (1 Reply)
Hello. I have a problem with AWK and floats below 0 in a script.
It may be simplified to this line (please, take into account that my "locale" is Spanish, so the system will read "," as decimal separator):
echo -1,25 2,55745 0,33 ,278 | awk '{print $1+1, $2+1, $3+1, $4+1}'... getting:
-0,25... (4 Replies)
I am trying to extract a hyperlink from a html document using awk. I have managed to output in the format... href="index.html"> where i would like it just to output index.html. Any ideas on how i would do this?
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I am using gawk in a dos shell in windows xp and want to read a datafile and reformat it.
The datafile consists of columns of integers, floating point numbers and text strings. Each column is a fixed width and each column contains the same data type, eg all integers, all text.
I am looking for a... (0 Replies)
I want to make computations using floats. This cannot be done with csh. ksh seem to have a problem as well. What is good shell for computations without having to resort to bc or awk? How about python? (5 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to remove lines once a string is found till another string is found including the start string and end string. I want to basically grab all the lines starting with color (closing bracket). PS: The line after the closing bracket for color could be anything (currently 'more').... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I have two files.
File 1 is a list of interested IDs
Ex1
Ex2
Ex3File 2 is the original file with over 8000 columns and 20 millions rows and is a compressed file .gz
Ex1 xx xx xx xx ....
Ex2 xx xx xx xx ....
Ex2 xx xx xx xx ....Now I need to extract the information for all the IDs of... (4 Replies)
Hello.
First best wishes for everybody.
here is the input file ("$INPUT1") contents :
BASH_FUNC_message_begin_script%%=() { local -a L_ARRAY;
BASH_FUNC_message_debug%%=() { local -a L_ARRAY;
BASH_FUNC_message_end_script%%=() { local -a L_ARRAY;
BASH_FUNC_message_error%%=() { local... (3 Replies)