Making lots of assumptions about your input data format and correcting the sed BRE you used to get output closer to what you said you want, you could try:
Hi Can any one tell me how to replace the 10th column in a file(comma delimted) with a new file with a single column. Can any one Help me out of the please as soon as possible as i am in a terribley hurry!!!!!!
Many THanks, (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a file which has data in following format:
"Body_Model","2/1/2007","2/1/2007"
"CSCH74","0","61"
"CSCS74","0","647"
"CSCX74","0","3"
"CSYH74","0","299"
"CSYS74","0","2514"
"CSYX74","0","3"
"Body_Model","3/1/2007","3/1/2007"
"CSCH74","0","88"
"CSCS74","0","489"... (3 Replies)
$ cat log.txt
Name Age Sex Lcation nfld alias xsd
CC 25 M XYZ asx KK Y
BB 21 F XAS awe SS N
SD 21 M AQW rty SD A
How can I replace the column with header "Lcation" with the column with header "alias" and delete the "alias" column?
so that the final output will become:
Name Age Sex... (10 Replies)
Match column 3 in file1 to column 1 in file 2 and replace with column 2 from file2
file 1 sample
SNDK 80004C101 AT
XLNX 983919101 BB
NETL 64118B100 BS
AMD 007903107 CC
KLAC 482480100 DC
TER 880770102 KATS
ATHR 04743P108 KATS... (7 Replies)
Hello,
I am trying to replace the column in file1 with the column from file2. The two files will have the same amount of rows. Each row will correspond with the same row in the other file.
File1
"Replace this column"
500 13-APR-2011... (11 Replies)
Can anyone please help with this? I have 2 files as given below.
If 2nd column of file1 has pattern foo1@a, find the matching 1st column in file2 & replace 2nd column of file1 with file2's value.
file1
abc_1 foo1@a ....
abc_1 soo2@a ...
def_2 soo2@a ....
def_2 foo1@a ........ (7 Replies)
Hello. I'm trying to replace the 1st column of text with the word Blue. The string is text and numbers. Trying to learn awk and have been searching forums but can't come up with anything. Any help would be appreciated. (4 Replies)
I have a pipe delimited file.
Below are the contents
order_id|line_id|retail|cost
2324|1|99.99|50
89793|23|100|23.99
90989|9|23|76.50|56.5
I need to zero out the 3rd column(retail)
Below is what i want
order_id|line_id|retail|cost
2324|1|0|50
89793|23|0|23.99
90989|9|23|0|56.5
... (5 Replies)
hi i have sample data
a,b,c,d,e,g h http://mysite.xyx
z,b,d,f,e,s t http://123124#
a,b,c,i,m,nothing
d,i,j,e,w,nothing
output expected is
a,b,c,d,e,http://mysite.xyx
z,b,d,f,e,http://123124#
a,b,c,i,m,nothing
d,i,j,e,w,nothing
i can get only links using grep -o 'http.*'
i... (8 Replies)
I have a csv which has lot of columns . I was looking for an awk script which would extract a column twice. for the first occurance the header and data needs to be intact but for the second occurance i want to replace the header name since it a duplicate and extract year value which is in ddmmyy... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: Kunalcurious
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shtool-subst
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)