If you use the following sed command, replacing each occurrence of <space> with a single space character and replacing <tab> with a single tab character:
it will replace all sequences of zero or more spaces followed by a tab character followed by zero of more spaces and tabs in the file named input_file to exactly five space characters in the output file named new_file.
If someone else wants to try this on a Solaris/SunOS system, change sed to /usr/xpg4/bin/sed.
I have a special character in my file. It displays as a '#' sign but when I do this command I do not find the line.
fgrep 'G#ant' file1
I want to replace the special character with another value but I need to know what character it really is. Any ideas on how to replace this '#' value with... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
How to remove a box like special character which appears at the end of a string/line/record. I have no clue what this box like special character is. It is transparent square like box. This appears in a .DAT file at the end of header.
I'm to compare a value in header with a parameter.... (16 Replies)
Can any one plse help me writing shell script to removing some special character pattern (like / > -------, / > / > ------- etc....as shown below) from the text file ASAP.
/ > -------
<tag-normalization tag-name="EXECSERVPRODUCT" read-only="false" part="body">
... (3 Replies)
Hello ,
i have a text file like this :
A123 c12AB c32DD aaaa
B123 23DS 12QW bbbb
C123 2GR 3RG cccccc
i want to remove the numbers from second and third column only.
i tried this :
perl -pe 's///g' file.txt > newfile.txt
but it will remove the number from... (7 Replies)
Hello
I've searched here and on the 'net for examples of a script or command line function that will remove the $ character from all file names only that can be done within the directory that contains the file names - which are all html files.
ie, I have a directory that contains html files... (6 Replies)
Greetings,
We have a requirement where we need to loop in a fixed width file in linux and remove a character based on a position for every record. It would highly appreciate if someone can help to automate this.
Appreciate your time and help!
Regards (3 Replies)
Hello
I have this special caracter after retreving rows from sql server:
"....spasses: • Entrem al valort 6050108002811 • El donem..."
I would like a sed command to remove it..or just know it's ascii code in order to replace it into my sql sentence.. Hope some one knows how to do that.... (7 Replies)
Hi Folks,
I have a huge data of the below format
abc #apple 1200 06/23
ghj #orange 1500 06/27
uyt #banana 2300 05/13
efg #vegetable 0700 04/16
After first 3 letters, i have 9 spaces and after fruit there are no specific fixed space, but it varies... (4 Replies)
Hi There,
I have one requirement to remove word after character "/".
Input file is
2017-07-12|02|user1l|domain1/userl|0
2017-07-12|02|user2|domain1/user2|5
2017-07-12|02|user3|domain2/user3|0
2017-07-12|02|user4|domain1/user4|432
and require OP file is
... (2 Replies)
Hi all.
I want to use sed to remove a word that ends with "!" in the first page of a file. The word I want to remove is: "DNA!".
I have search for an answer and nothing of what I found helped me.
~faizlo (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: faizlo
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
column
COLUMN(1) User Commands COLUMN(1)NAME
column - columnate lists
SYNOPSIS
column [options] file...
DESCRIPTION
The column utility formats its input into multiple columns. Rows are filled before columns. Input is taken from file or, by default, from
standard input. Empty lines are ignored.
OPTIONS -c, --columns width
Output is formatted to a width specified as number of characters.
-t, --table
Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with
the characters supplied using the separator. Table output is useful for pretty-printing.
-s, --separator separators
Specify possible table delimiters (default is whitespace).
-o, --output-separator separators
Specify table output delimiter (default is two whitespaces).
-x, --fillrows
Fill columns before filling rows.
-h, --help
Print help and exit.
ENVIRONMENT
The environment variable COLUMNS is used to determine the size of the screen if no other information is available.
EXAMPLES
sed 's/#.*//' /etc/fstab | column -t
BUGS
The util-linux version 2.23 changed -s option to be non-greedy, for example:
$ printf "a:b:c
1::3
" | column -t -s ':'
old output:
a b c
1 3
new output (since util-linux 2.23)
a b c
1 3
SEE ALSO colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1)HISTORY
The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.
AVAILABILITY
The column command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
util-linux October 2010 COLUMN(1)