Thank You Ravinder. It was a very simple solution that you provided and it works.
Can you let me know how it works ? man xargs didnt give much.
How does it even detect the spaces ?
xargs builds commands from standard input. The -n will specify maximum number of arguments to use in the execution of the command. The default command is echo.
As a way of observation note: just because a command might fit in a single line or it appears shorter does not mean it is simpler, nor faster, nor better. What's going behind the scenes may be as important as how much you need to enter at the command line.
For instance, look at the execution time of these two commands:
i have a file named as templist which looks like this:
i want to translate spaces to a new line so that the file would look like this
im using sed with this sed -e 's/" "/\n/' templist > templist.out but it doesn't work. can someone please help me. (2 Replies)
Hi all,
Is there a way to perform the above, I am trying to strip out more than one space from a line, but keep the single space. See below output example.
My Name is test test2 test3 test4 test5
My Name is test test2 test3 test4 test5
Please note that the lines would contain... (7 Replies)
for eg:
i have i/p file as:
================
i
wnt
to
change end of line
=================
my require ouput is like:
i wnt to change end of line
==================== (7 Replies)
I am trying to show each word on a separate line, but read in all the words on one command line. Below is the code I have right now:
read name
MyString=$name
name2=" "
echo $MyString | awk -v ORS="" '{ gsub(/./,"&\n") ; print }' | \
while read char
do
if
then
... (8 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I want remove starting space of each line ...
My Input:
A B C D E
C V F G H
F R T Y U
D F G H J
L O I U Y G P O
K O P L O
L O I P
P O P
P P P P
My Output:
A B C D E
C V F G H (7 Replies)
Hi,
I want to check if the given line from a text file has a spaces in between. if it does, then I want to add '"' double quotes at the beginning and end of the line. Otherwise leave the line as it is.
For example, below is the sample content from my file.
$cat file.txt
test1
test2... (6 Replies)
Hi Folks,
I have a report data like the one seen below.
FRUITS@NEW_ORANGE(1500 04/29)
FRUITS@NEW_ORANGE(1500 05/04)
FRUITS@NEW_ORANGE(1500 05/05)
FRUITS@NEW_ORANGE(1500 05/07)
FRUITS@NEW_ORANGE(1500 05/12)
I need to use each of this lines separately in another for loop like the one... (2 Replies)