It's absolutely non-trivial to deal with empty fields when field separators are multiple spaces, and your sample does NOT have six spaces as separators but any number, some six or larger. Try
can't figure out a way to delete multiple empty lines but keep single empty lines in a file, file is like this
#cat file
1
2
3
4
5
6
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What I want is
1
2 (6 Replies)
hi all
I want to get multiple search that are separated by blank line according to first search in text file
eg: egrep 'x|Y|Z' file
in that for each x...it should be seperated by blank line
will u pls help (8 Replies)
Hi Guru's , I have a whole bunch of files in /var/tmp that i need to strip any blank lines from, so ive written the following script to identify the lines (which works perfectly).. but i wanted to know, how can I actually strip the identified lines from the actual source files ??
my... (11 Replies)
Dear All-
Please suggest a single unix command which can append blank line in multiple files.
I need to achieve this using a single unix command and not a script
Please do advice
Regards,
Suresh (2 Replies)
Hi,
Consider a file named "testfile"
The contents of file are as below
first line added for test
second line added for test
third line added for test
fourth line added for test
fifth line added for test (5 Replies)
Hello All ,
I have a file which needs to split based on the blank lines
Name ABC
Address London
Age 32
(4 blank new line)
Name DEF
Address London
Age 30
(4 blank new line)
Name DEF
Address London (8 Replies)
Hi All
Need Help
I have a file with the below format (ABC.TXT) :
®¿¿ABCDHEJJSJJ|XCBJSKK01|M|7348974982790
HDFLJDKJSKJ|KJALKSD02|M|7378439274898
KJHSAJKHHJJ|LJDSAJKK03|F|9898982039999
(cont......)
I need to write a script where it will check for : blank lines (between rows,before... (6 Replies)
Dear All,
In a CSV file, say that a given column has been extracted. In that column, information is missing (i.e. blank lines appear). I would like to replace the blank lines by the last valid line (not blank) previously read.
For example, consider the extract below:
123
234
543
111... (7 Replies)
Hi Experts,
In short : Need to split file when field in column 5 is blank and need to generate two file in which column 5 is blank and other in which column 5 has values along with other rows and column data
My issue is i am not able to get header for column from raw file into new file which... (4 Replies)
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join
join(1) General Commands Manual join(1)NAME
join - relational database operator
SYNOPSIS
[options] file1 file2
DESCRIPTION
forms, on the standard output, a join of the two relations specified by the lines of file1 and file2. If file1 or file2 is the standard
input is used.
file1 and file2 must be sorted in increasing collating sequence (see Environment Variables below) on the fields on which they are to be
joined; normally the first in each line.
The output contains one line for each pair of lines in file1 and file2 that have identical join fields. The output line normally consists
of the common field followed by the rest of the line from file1, then the rest of the line from file2.
The default input field separators are space, tab, or new-line. In this case, multiple separators count as one field separator, and lead-
ing separators are ignored. The default output field separator is a space.
Some of the below options use the argument n. This argument should be a or a referring to either file1 or file2, respectively.
Options
In addition to the normal output,
produce a line for each unpairable line in file n, where n is or
Replace empty output fields by string
s.
Join on field
m of both files. The argument m must be delimited by space characters. This option and the following two are provided for
backward compatibility. Use of the and options ( see below ) is recommended for portability.
Join on field
m of file1.
Join on field
m of file2.
Each output line comprises the fields specified in
list, each element of which has the form where n is a file number and m is a field number. The common field is not printed
unless specifically requested.
Use character
c as a separator (tab character). Every appearance of c in a line is significant. The character c is used as the field sepa-
rator for both input and output.
Instead of the default output,
produce a line only for each unpairable line in file_number, where file_number is or
Join on field
f of file 1. Fields are numbered starting with 1.
Join on field
f of file 2. Fields are numbered starting with 1.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
determines the collating sequence expects from input files.
determines the alternative blank character as an input field separator, and the interpretation of data within files as single and/or multi-
byte characters. also determines whether the separator defined through the option is a single- or multi-byte character.
If or is not specified in the environment or is set to the empty string, the value of is used as a default for each unspecified or empty
variable. If is not specified or is set to the empty string, a default of ``C'' (see lang(5)) is used instead of If any internationaliza-
tion variable contains an invalid setting, behaves as if all internationalization variables are set to ``C'' (see environ(5)).
International Code Set Support
Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported with the exception that multi-byte-character file names are not supported.
EXAMPLES
The following command line joins the password file and the group file, matching on the numeric group ID, and outputting the login name, the
group name, and the login directory. It is assumed that the files have been sorted in the collating sequence defined by the or environment
variable on the group ID fields.
The following command produces an output consisting all possible combinations of lines that have identical first fields in the two sorted
files sf1 and sf2, with each line consisting of the first and third fields from and the second and fourth fields from
WARNINGS
With default field separation, the collating sequence is that of with the sequence is that of a plain sort.
The conventions of and are incongruous.
Numeric filenames may cause conflict when the option is used immediately before listing filenames.
AUTHOR
was developed by OSF and HP.
SEE ALSO awk(1), comm(1), sort(1), uniq(1).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE join(1)