Hi,
Newbie here. Need to convert a txt file to .csv format. There's no character to replace so not sure if I can use sed :confused: . The comma is to be inserted after every certain number of characters in each line...
Help!
Thanks. (4 Replies)
Hi There!
I have the following string
which i need to convert to
i.e. between each occurence of the delimiter ('|' in this case), i need to delete all characters from the '|' to the ':' so that |10,9:12/xxx| becomes |12/xxx|
How can i do this using sed?
Thanks in advance! (13 Replies)
I'm working with a file like:
somestuff
somemorestuff
...
someadditionalstuff
STARTTAG
ENDTAG
someotherstuff
somecoolstuff
...
somefinalstuffI've got some text (either in a file or piped) to put between STARTTAG and ENDTAG. I was thinking something like grepping for the line number of... (2 Replies)
Can someone please help?I have a file - fixed.txt----------------------------AABBBBCCCCCCDDDEEFFFFGGGGGGHHHIIJJJJKKKKKKLLL----------------------------To insert delimiters at fixed lengths of 2, 4, 6, 3, I created a file text1.txt as-------------------2463----------------------and trying to execute... (10 Replies)
Hi,
This is my first post.It has two parts
first part:
I want to match a line that starts with whitespace tab or similar followed by
must start with specific word and not match same word start with hyphen
like this:
grep height file1:
height: 150px;
line-height: 1.5em;
height:... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I need to delete all text between "|" delimiters. The line in text file typically looks like this:
1014182| 13728 -rw-r--r-- 1 imac1 staff 7026127 2 okt 2010 |/Users/imac1/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Various Artists/We Are the World_ U.S.A. for Africa/01 We Are the World.mp3... (2 Replies)
Having a huge file in the following format.
2,3,1,,,4
1,2,3,,,,,5,
8,7,3,4,,,,
Output needed is:
2,3,1,0.0,0.0,4
1,2,3,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,5,
8,7,3,4,0.0,0.0,0.0,
I have tried reading the file each line, using AWK to parse to find out ",," and then insert 0.0 . It works but very slow. Need... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I have a requirement where in I need to insert delimiters before the last column of the total delimiters is less than a specified number.
Say if the delimiters is less than 139, I need to insert 2 columns ( with blanks) before the last field
awk -F 'Ç' '{ if (NF-1 < 139)} END { "Insert 2... (5 Replies)
I'm attempting to replace a substring that contains a hyphen and not having much success, can anyone point out where i'm going wrong or suggest an alternative.
# echo /var/lib/libvirt/images/vm888b-clone.qcow | sed -e 's|vm888-clone|qaz|g'
/var/lib/libvirt/images/vm888b-clone.qcow (1 Reply)
sed is not applying /d "delete line" option when I also include match word options \< and \>
examples...
echo cat | sed '/\<cat\>/d'
will return cat for some reason
echo cat | sed "/\<cat\>/d"
will also still return cat.
Of course I can just run this... echo cat | sed '/cat/d' and... (1 Reply)
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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)
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