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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Formatting data to put it in the excel file Post 302955900 by rahul2662 on Wednesday 23rd of September 2015 09:44:39 AM
Old 09-23-2015
Hello RudiC ,

I tried the below code as mentioned :

Code:
awk '{sub ($1 "[^:]*:[\t ]*", ""); print }' tmp1.txt

The above command formatted only first field , however I want all the fields in all the rows to be formatted :

for example Input File is as follows ( please note there are 69 fields in the file in each row however to make things simple I have taken only 4 fields) :

Code:
,Policy Name:       Catalog-Backup,  Policy Type:         NBU-Catalog,  Active:              yes,  Effective date:      08/07/2013 05:07:12
,Policy Name:       NI1FS-001_OS,  Policy Type:         MS-Windows,  Active:              yes,  Effective date:      07/15/2013 21:26:40
,Policy Name:       Test_Automation,  Policy Type:         Standard,  Active:              no,  Effective date:      07/15/2013 21:26:40

The output file should be as follows :

Code:
,Catalog-Backup,           NBU-Catalog,         yes,        08/07/2013 05:07:12
,NI1FS-001_OS,        MS-Windows,              yes,        07/15/2013 21:26:40
,Test_Automation,      Standard,             no,       07/15/2013 21:26:40

So basically in the output file every occurence of "," and upto the next occurence of ":" should be replaced with ","
for example :
",XYZABC:" should be replaced with ","

I tried following but it didnt worked :

Code:
awk '{ for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) {sub ($i "[^:]*:[\t ]*", ""); print }}' tmp1.txt



Could you please help. Thanks a lot for your kind help.

I made a small mistake while writing codes and corrected the same above. Sorry for the same.

Thanks
Rahul
Last edited by rahul2662; 09-23-2015 at 10:54 AM..
 

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ppmtosixel(1)						      General Commands Manual						     ppmtosixel(1)

NAME

       ppmtosixel - convert a portable pixmap into DEC sixel format

SYNOPSIS

       ppmtosixel [-raw] [-margin] [ppmfile]

DESCRIPTION

       Reads  a  portable  pixmap  as input.  Produces sixel commands (SIX) as output.	The output is formatted for color printing, e.g. for a DEC
       LJ250 color inkjet printer.

       If RGB values from the PPM file do not have maxval=100, the RGB values are rescaled.  A printer control header and a color assignment table
       begin the SIX file.  Image data is written in a compressed format by default.  A printer control footer ends the image file.

OPTIONS

       -raw   If  specified,  each  pixel  will  be explicitly described in the image file.  If -raw is not specified, output will default to com-
	      pressed format in which identical adjacent pixels are replaced by "repeat pixel" commands.  A raw file is often an order	of  magni-
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       -margin
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PRINTING

       Generally, sixel files must reach the printer unfiltered.  Use the lpr -x option or cat filename > /dev/tty0?.

BUGS

       Upon rescaling, truncation of the least significant bits of RGB values may result in poor color conversion.  If the original PPM maxval was
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SEE ALSO

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AUTHOR

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