One way would be to first replace all the \| with some character that will not appear in the text, then do the awk and them replace those characters back to \|, e.g.
Dear unix gurus,
I have a data file with header information about a subject and also 3 columns of n rows of data on various items he owns. The data file looks something like this:
adam peter
blah blah blah
blah blah blah
car
01 30 200
02 31 400
03 57 121
.. .. ..
.. .. ..
n y... (8 Replies)
I have a file which was pipe delimited, I need to make it tab delimited. I tried with sed but no use
cat file | sed 's/|//t/g'
The above command substituted "/t" not tab in the place of pipe.
Sample file:
abc|123|2012-01-30|2012-04-28|xyz
have to convert to:
abc 123... (6 Replies)
I have file as below
column1|column2|column3|column4|column5|
fill1|fill2|fill3|fill4|fill5|
abc1|abc2|abc3|abc4|abc5|
.
.
.
.
i need to remove column2,3, from that file
column1|column4|column5|
fill1|fill4|fill5|
abc1|abc4|abc5|
.
.
. (3 Replies)
Hi guys,
I need to know how i can ignore Pipe '|' if Pipe is coming as a column in Pipe delimited file
for eg:
file 1:
xx|yy|"xyz|zzz"|zzz|12...
using below awk command
awk 'BEGIN {FS=OFS="|" } print $3
i would get xyz
But i want as :
xyz|zzz to consider as whole column... (13 Replies)
Hi All,
I am writing a shell script to extract oracle table into a pipe dilemited flat file. Below is my code and I have attached two files that I have abled to generate so far.
1. Table.txt ==> database extract file
2. flat.txt ==> pipe delimited after some manipulation of the original db... (5 Replies)
Hi All ,
I have pipe delimiter file with 11 columns . I need to insert 4 empty columns after column 10 . and After 11 column I need to insert a column which is having the same value for all the rows .
My file
1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11
New file
... (11 Replies)
Hi, I have a rquirement in unix as below .
I have a text file with me seperated by | symbol and i need to generate a excel file through unix commands/script so that each value will go to each column.
ex:
Input Text file:
1|A|apple
2|B|bottle
excel file to be generated as output as... (9 Replies)
Hello,
I have a bilingual database with the following structure
a,b,c=d,e,f
The right half is in a Left to right script and the second is in a Right to left script as the examples below show
What I need is to separate out the database such that the first word on the left hand matches the first... (4 Replies)
Is there any way to place each even column name infront of its odd column using awk or others?
input
Ab name MGH26 B04 MGH26 B05
output
name_Ab B04_MGH26 B05_MGH26 (4 Replies)
I have a file as below
Emp1|FirstName|MiddleName|LastName|Address|Pincode|PhoneNumber
1234|FirstName1|MiddleName2|LastName3| Add1 || ADD2|123|000000000
2345|FirstName2|MiddleName3|LastName4|
Add1 || ADD2|
234|000000000
OUTPUT :
... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: styris
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
column
COLUMN(1) BSD General Commands Manual COLUMN(1)NAME
column -- columnate lists
SYNOPSIS
column [-ntx] [-c columns] [-s sep] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The column utility formats its input into multiple columns. Rows are filled before columns. Input is taken from file operands, or, by
default, from the standard input. Empty lines are ignored.
The options are as follows:
-c Output is formatted for a display columns wide.
-s Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the -t option.
-t Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with
the characters supplied using the -s option. Useful for pretty-printing displays.
-x Fill columns before filling rows.
-n By default, the column command will merge multiple adjacent delimiters into a single delimiter when using the -t option; this option
disables that behavior. This option is a Debian GNU/Linux extension.
ENVIRONMENT
The COLUMNS, LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of column as described in environ(7).
EXIT STATUS
The column utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
(printf "PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY " ;
printf "HH:MM/YEAR NAME
" ;
ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t
SEE ALSO colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1)HISTORY
The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.
BUGS
Input lines are limited to LINE_MAX (2048) bytes in length.
BSD July 29, 2004 BSD