Replacing nth field with nth_text for each line in a file
Hi All,
I am very new to shell scripting and tried to search this in the forum but no luck.
Requirment:
I have an input file which is comma separated. I need to replace the value in 4th column with another value. This has to happen for all the lines in the file.
Sample data:
Input file :
Resultant file:
The "HFMEntity" column value has to be appended with "_YFAI" constant for all the lines in the file. AE1610 to AE1610_YFAI.
Kindly help me with this scenario. Let me know if you need more information.
Hi,
I wrote a script which extracts data from 2 tables (joining the tables together) and outputs the fields to a csv file.
the output may look something like
scenario 1: a,b,c,d,1,2,3,4 or
scenario 2: a,b,c,d,,,,
now, in the second scenario, there are some empty fields at the end of... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have several files with data that have to be imported to a database. These files contain records with separator characters. Some records are corrupt (2 separators are missing) and I need to correct them prior to importing them into the db.
Example:
... (5 Replies)
Hello All,
How to replace a string in nth line of a file using sed or awk.
For Ex: test.txt
Line 1 : TEST1 TEST2 TEST3
Line 2 : TEST1 TEST2 TEST3 TEST4
Line 3 : TEST1 TEST2 TEST3 TEST5
Line 4 : TEST1 TEST2 TEST3 TEST6
Line 5 : TEST1 TEST2 TEST3 TEST7
i want to go to 4th line of a... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I know there are lots of threads on replacing text within files, usually using sed or awk. However, I find it hard to adapt examples that I found to my specific case. I am kind of new to UNIX and have hard times learning the syntax either for sed or awk so I would appreciate any help. Here's... (5 Replies)
Hi,
In my file (which is "," delimited and text qualifier is "), I have to extract a particualr field.
file1:
1,"aa,b",4
expected is the 2nd field:
aa,b
I tried the basic cut -d "," -f 2 file 1, this gave me
aa alone instead aa,b.
A small hint ot help on this will be very... (5 Replies)
Using Awk, how can I achieve the following?
I have set of record numbers, for which, I have to replace the nth field with some values, say spaces.
Eg:
Set of Records : 4,9,10,55,89,etc
I have to change the 8th field of all the above set of records to spaces (10 spaces).
Its a delimited... (1 Reply)
$ cat /cygdrive/d/Final2.txt
1,A ,Completed, 07.03_23.01 ,Jun 30 20:00
2,BBB,Pending,,
3,CCCCC,Pending,,
4,DDDDD,Pending,,
5,E,Pending,,
6,FFFF,Pending,,
7,G,Pending,,
In the above file 4th field is date which is in MM.DD_HH.MIN format and I need to convert it to as it is there in 5th... (1 Reply)
I have posted this again as old post is closed and I am not able to reopen. so please consider this new post
Input File :
1,A,Completed,06.02_19.36,Jun 30 20:00
2,BBB,Failed,07.04_05.12,Jul 21 19:06
3,CCCCC,New,07.21_03.03,Jul 26 12:57
4,DDDDD,Pending,,
I wast output file as:
... (7 Replies)
I cannot seem to get what should be a simple awk one-liner to work correctly and cannot figure out why. I would like to use patterns from a specific field in one file as regex to search for matching strings in the entire line ($0) of another file.
I would like to output the lines of File2 which... (1 Reply)
My file (the output of an experiment) starts off looking like this,
_____________________________________________________________
Subjects incorporated to date: 001
Data file started on machine PKSHS260-05CP
**********************************************************************
Subject 1,... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: samonl
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join
JOIN(1) BSD General Commands Manual JOIN(1)NAME
join -- relational database operator
SYNOPSIS
join [-a file_number | -v file_number] [-e string] [-j file_number field] [-o list] [-t char] [-1 field] [-2 field] file1 file2
DESCRIPTION
The join utility performs an ``equality join'' on the specified files and writes the result to the standard output. The ``join field'' is
the field in each file by which the files are compared. The first field in each line is used by default. There is one line in the output
for each pair of lines in file1 and file2 which have identical join fields. Each output line consists of the join field, the remaining
fields from file1 and then the remaining fields from file2.
The default field separators are tab and space characters. In this case, multiple tabs and spaces count as a single field separator, and
leading tabs and spaces are ignored. The default output field separator is a single space character.
Many of the options use file and field numbers. Both file numbers and field numbers are 1 based, i.e. the first file on the command line is
file number 1 and the first field is field number 1. The following options are available:
-a file_number
In addition to the default output, produce a line for each unpairable line in file file_number. (The argument to -a must not be
preceded by a space; see the COMPATIBILITY section.)
-e string Replace empty output fields with string.
-o list The -o option specifies the fields that will be output from each file for each line with matching join fields. Each element of
list has the form 'file_number.field', where file_number is a file number and field is a field number. The elements of list must
be either comma (``,'') or whitespace separated. (The latter requires quoting to protect it from the shell, or, a simpler
approach is to use multiple -o options.)
-t char Use character char as a field delimiter for both input and output. Every occurrence of char in a line is significant.
-v file_number
Do not display the default output, but display a line for each unpairable line in file file_number. The options -v 1 and -v 2
may be specified at the same time.
-1 field Join on the field'th field of file 1.
-2 field Join on the field'th field of file 2.
When the default field delimiter characters are used, the files to be joined should be ordered in the collating sequence of sort(1), using
the -b option, on the fields on which they are to be joined, otherwise join may not report all field matches. When the field delimiter char-
acters are specified by the -t option, the collating sequence should be the same as sort(1) without the -b option.
If one of the arguments file1 or file2 is ``-'', the standard input is used.
The join utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
COMPATIBILITY
For compatibility with historic versions of join, the following options are available:
-a In addition to the default output, produce a line for each unpairable line in both file 1 and file 2. (To distinguish between
this and -a file_number, join currently requires that the latter not include any white space.)
-j1 field Join on the field'th field of file 1.
-j2 field Join on the field'th field of file 2.
-j field Join on the field'th field of both file 1 and file 2.
-o list ...
Historical implementations of join permitted multiple arguments to the -o option. These arguments were of the form ``file_num-
ber.field_number'' as described for the current -o option. This has obvious difficulties in the presence of files named ``1.2''.
These options are available only so historic shell scripts don't require modification and should not be used.
SEE ALSO awk(1), comm(1), paste(1), sort(1), uniq(1)STANDARDS
The join command is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.
BSD April 28, 1995 BSD