Some versions or 'tr' insist on char sets in and out in square brackets, probably a POSIX thing. You could 'tr' both ' ' and ',' to '\n' or 'tr' ',' to '\n' and then "tr -d ' '". The 'tr' is very fast, tolerant of long lines and large files, being entirely char by char.
That was for ranges, not for enumerated strings of characters..
Quote:
On historical System V systems, a range expression requires enclosing square-brackets, such as:
tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'
However, BSD-based systems did not require the brackets, and this convention is used here to avoid breaking large numbers of BSD scripts:
tr a-z A-Z
The preceding System V script will continue to work because the brackets, treated as regular characters, are translated to themselves. However, any System V script that relied on "a-z" representing the three characters 'a', '-', and 'z' have to be rewritten as "az-".
I have a .csv file that I would like to count on each line the occurences of the coma. Each line should have the same amount, but as an integrity check I would like to include in my script this count.
What is the best way of doing this? (3 Replies)
Hello,
I have two files that I need to compare and print out the line from file2 that has the first 6 fields matching the first 6 fields in file1. Complicating this are the following restrictions
1. file1 is only a few thousand lines at most and file2 is greater than 2 million
2. I need to... (7 Replies)
I have a .csv file which is seperated with (;)
inputfile
---------
ZZZZ;AAAA;BBB;CCCC;DDD;EEE;
YYYY;BBBB;CCC;DDDD;EEE;FFF;
...
...
reading file line by line till end of file.
while reading each line output format should be .
i need to print only specific columns let say 5th... (2 Replies)
Korn Shell in AIX 6.1
I want to print the below shown pipe (|) separated list line by line.
line=es349889|nhb882309|ts00293|snh03524|bg578835|bg37900|rnh00297|py882201|sg175883
for i in line
do
echo "Hello $line "
done
I wanted to execute the above for loop. But i can't even set the... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I have below format log file,
Comparing csv_converted_files/2201/9747.1012H67126.5077292103609547345.csv and csv_converted_files/22019/97447.1012H67126.5077292103609547345.csv
Comparing csv_converted_files/2559/9447.1012H67126.5077292103609547345.csv and... (6 Replies)
example of problem:
when I echo "$e" >> /home/cogiz/file.txt
result prints to file as:AA
BB
CC
I need it to save to file as this:AA BB CC
I know it's probably something really simple but any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You.
Cogiz (7 Replies)
Hello,
I am looking for a specific situation in a text file. The conditions are,
> <CompoundName>
InChI=1S/C5H12NO2/c1-5(2)4-8-6(3)7/h5H,4H2,1-3H3/q+1
I am looking for cases where the line "> <CompoundName>" is followed by a line that contains the string "InChI=" without regard to... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
i want to write a shell script read below file line by line and want to exclude the lines which contains empty value for MOUNTPOINT field.
i am using centos 7 Operating system.
want to read below file.
# cat /tmp/d5
NAME="/dev/sda" TYPE="disk" SIZE="60G" OWNER="root"... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: balu1234
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.8.4 2005-05-03 SHELL-QUOTE(1p)