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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replacing Multiple spaces with a single space but excluding few regular expressions Post 302957170 by Don Cragun on Wednesday 7th of October 2015 09:11:34 PM
Old 10-07-2015
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Originally Posted by sparks
My bad, That result was from a query which I executed before, but the 2nd and 3rd fields does have the quotes around it.
And to your questions $2 and $3 have four or sometimes five comma separated elements
So, your real data contains double quotes surrounding fields 2 and 3, but the sample data you've shown us contains no double quotes? And, without the quotes fields 2 and 3 sometimes contain 3 commas and sometimes contain 4 commas. So how are we supposed to guess where to add the double quotes?

I am confused.

Can you please show us the output from your query that contains the double quotes and show us the output you hope to produce from that output? (Please post samples in-line in a post (in CODE tags) if at all possible instead of uploading files that everyone who wants to help you has to download.)
 

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logadm.conf(4)							   File Formats 						    logadm.conf(4)

NAME
logadm.conf - configuration file for logadm command SYNOPSIS
/etc/logadm.conf DESCRIPTION
/etc/logadm.conf is the default configuration file for the log management tool logadm(1M). Comments are allowed using the pound character (#) and extend to the end of line. Each non-comment line has the form: logname options where logname is the name of the entry and options are the default command line options for the logadm command. The name of the entry may be the same as the name of the log file, or a log file name may be given in the options section of the entry. Long lines may be folded using a backslash followed by a newline to continue an entry on the next line. Single or double quotes may be used to protect spaces or alternate-style quotes in strings. The preferred method for changing /etc/logadm.conf is to use the -V, -w, and -r options to the logadm(1M) command, which allow you to lookup an entry, write an entry, or remove an entry from /etc/logadm.conf. A full description of how and when /etc/logadm.conf is used and sample entries are found in logadm(1M). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsr | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
logadm(1M), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 6 Dec 2001 logadm.conf(4)
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