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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Need to convert a pipe delimited text file to tab delimited Post 302940441 by raja kakitapall on Sunday 5th of April 2015 05:59:49 PM
Old 04-05-2015
We dont want to do any manual intervention by importing to excel and reformatting it. This was a requirement as part of automation where we are trying below:
1. run a sql query it will be done through unix and out put can be created in txt or xls format.
2. get that data formatted on an excel with seperate columns and mail to user

Can you help me out on this
 

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cvm-sql(7)						 Miscellaneous Information Manual						cvm-sql(7)

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cvm-sql - CVM SQL Framework QUERY SUBSTITUTION
$VAR and ${VAR} are replaced with the quoted value of the environment variable named VAR. Use the second form when VAR contains anything other than alpha-numeric or underscore (_) characters. Do not include quotes in the query. The variables account and domain contain the account and domain names given by the CVM client. $$ is replaced with a single dollar sign. QUERY RESULTS
The query must produce the following fields exactly in order. All required fields must not be null or empty. 1. Password, encrypted with crypt(3) (required) 2. Actual account name (required) 3. User ID (integer) (required) 4. Group ID (integer) (required) 5. Directory (required) 6. Real name (optional) 7. Login shell (optional) 8. Group name (optional) 9. Domain name (optional) 10. System account name (optional) 11. System account directory (optional) 12. Mailbox path (optional) DEFAULT QUERY
SELECT password, username, userid, groupid, directory, realname, shell, groupname, domain, sys_username, sys_directory FROM accounts WHERE username=$account AND domain=$domain SEE ALSO
cvm-mysql(8), cvm-pgsql(8), cvm-pwfile(8), cvm-qmail(8), cvm-unix(8), cvm-vmailmgr(8), cvm-benchclient(8), cvm-checkpassword(8), cvm-test- client(8) http://untroubled.org/cvm/cvm.html cvm-sql(7)
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