Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community

Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: How to determine column separation format?
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to determine column separation format? Post 302957968 by la2015 on Saturday 17th of October 2015 06:23:29 AM
Old 10-17-2015
Thank you RudiC. I tried it but the output is nothing, which I dont think is wrong. The answer is there, its just that whether the answer are spaces or tabs, these are not being printed as " " or "t". In other words, for the file

Code:
ABCD    A   L

which is ABCDtabAspacespacespaceL

I would expect awk to print these separators, something like:

Code:
awk_command
output:
t "   "

Last edited by Don Cragun; 10-17-2015 at 08:14 AM.. Reason: Change PHP tags to CODE tags.
 

9 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Joining three lines with comma separation

I have a file that looks like this: G. KRESSLAR 9618 W. APPALOOSA DRIVE SUN CITY, AZ 85373 SHIRLEY ALLEN 7272 W. VIA MONTOYA DRIVE GLENDALE, AZ 85310 LOUIS VALDEZ 244441 N. 86TH AVENUE PEORIA, AZ 85383 DONNA NEWBON 3231 W. DENTON #D PHOENIX, AZ 85017 SARAH WILSON 6534 W. PALO... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: BCarlson
3 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

AWK CSV to TXT format, TXT file not in a correct column format

HI guys, I have created a script to read 1 column in a csv file and then place it in text file. However, when i checked out the text file, it is not in a column format... Example: CSV file contains name,age aa,11 bb,22 cc,33 After using awk to get first column TXT file... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mdap
1 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to format a column

Hi everybody I want to manipulate the output of this command: df -h to something like this: df -h | awk '{print"\t\t "$1"\t\t"$6"\t\t"$2"\t\t" $4}' | sed 's/Mounted/Mount Point/g' | sed 's/Avail/Free Space/g'but my problem is: if for example the mounting point is a long name everything beside... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ialbert
3 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Help need to write a script on column separation for syslog output in perl

HI Pros, I have a issue.I need to write a script to parse the logs got from syslog server and update the same in my database.I need the following output.I donot know perl and I heard it very easy to write in perl I have the sample log I need each column seperated by commas and all equals... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: iron_michael86
0 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Format Column

I need a script that takes it input wither it be from a file or inputed as variables and sort that into three columns. Thanks (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: prottheman
3 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

metacharacters separation

I have prepared a script to submit a string in a txt file. However there are somethings that I have to check before submitting the string in the txt file. One of those checks is to determine whether the string entered contains any metacharacters. I have tried sth like; echo "string" | grep -v ... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ozum
3 Replies

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Using awk/sed to determine whether there are any 2's, 3's and 4's in a column

Hi, I have a very large file which is of the general format: 0 3 4 2 ... 3 2 4 0 ... 0 3 4 2 ... 3 0 4 2 ... . . . . ... . . . . ... I would like to apply a simple awk/sed script to work out whether there are any 2's, 3's and 4's in each column. The results would look as... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: kasan0
3 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Using filename to determine a prefix that needs to be added to string column on file?

Possible filenames: CDD_Whatever.txt DDD_Whatever.txt If the file prefix = CDD, I'd like to prefix every person ID (second column in my examples below) on the file with "c-" If the file prefix = DDD, I'd like to prefix ever person ID with "d-" Input: Desired Output: Any help... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: lrluis
2 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

File Separation

Hi I have an XML File with default header($ lines of data) and default tail (Two Lines) and the body has occurrence of start<Folder> and ends with </Folder>. Now i want to split each occurrence i mean each start and end in to separate files with header and tail. For example: header line... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: Nithin Kumar
12 Replies

LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE

locale::codes::langext

Locale::Codes::LangExt(3pm)				 Perl Programmers Reference Guide			       Locale::Codes::LangExt(3pm)

NAME

       Locale::Codes::LangExt - standard codes for language extension identification

SYNOPSIS

	  use Locale::Codes::LangExt;

	  $lext = code2langext('acm');		       # $lext gets 'Mesopotamian Arabic'
	  $code = langext2code('Mesopotamian Arabic'); # $code gets 'acm'

	  @codes   = all_langext_codes();
	  @names   = all_langext_names();

DESCRIPTION

       The "Locale::Codes::LangExt" module provides access to standard codes used for identifying language extensions, such as those as defined in
       the IANA language registry.

       Most of the routines take an optional additional argument which specifies the code set to use. If not specified, the default IANA language
       registry codes will be used.

SUPPORTED CODE SETS

       There are several different code sets you can use for identifying language extensions. A code set may be specified using either a name, or
       a constant that is automatically exported by this module.

       For example, the two are equivalent:

	  $lext = code2langext('acm','alpha');
	  $lext = code2langext('acm',LOCALE_LANGEXT_ALPHA);

       The codesets currently supported are:

       alpha
	   This is the set of three-letter (lowercase) codes from the IANA language registry, such as 'acm' for Mesopotamian Arabic.

	   This is the default code set.

ROUTINES

       code2langext ( CODE [,CODESET] )
       langext2code ( NAME [,CODESET] )
       langext_code2code ( CODE ,CODESET ,CODESET2 )
       all_langext_codes ( [CODESET] )
       all_langext_names ( [CODESET] )
       Locale::Codes::LangExt::rename_langext  ( CODE ,NEW_NAME [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Codes::LangExt::add_langext  ( CODE ,NAME [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Codes::LangExt::delete_langext  ( CODE [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Codes::LangExt::add_langext_alias  ( NAME ,NEW_NAME )
       Locale::Codes::LangExt::delete_langext_alias  ( NAME )
       Locale::Codes::LangExt::rename_langext_code  ( CODE ,NEW_CODE [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Codes::LangExt::add_langext_code_alias  ( CODE ,NEW_CODE [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Codes::LangExt::delete_langext_code_alias  ( CODE [,CODESET] )
	   These routines are all documented in the Locale::Codes::API man page.

SEE ALSO

       Locale::Codes
	   The Locale-Codes distribution.

       Locale::Codes::API
	   The list of functions supported by this module.

       http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry
	   The IANA language subtag registry.

AUTHOR

       See Locale::Codes for full author history.

       Currently maintained by Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org).

COPYRIGHT

	  Copyright (c) 2011-2013 Sullivan Beck

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.18.2							    2013-11-04					       Locale::Codes::LangExt(3pm)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 09:00 AM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy