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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paste
PASTE(1) BSD General Commands Manual PASTE(1)NAME
paste -- merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
SYNOPSIS
paste [-s] [-d list] file ...
DESCRIPTION
The paste utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files, replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a
single tab character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output. If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files
still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source of empty lines.
The options are as follows:
-d list Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline characters instead of the default tab. The characters in list
are used circularly, i.e., when list is exhausted the first character from list is reused. This continues until a line from the
last input file (in default operation) or the last line in each file (using the -s option) is displayed, at which time paste
begins selecting characters from the beginning of list again.
The following special characters can also be used in list:
newline character
tab character
\ backslash character
Empty string (not a null character).
Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the character itself.
-s Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line order. The newline character of every line except the
last line in each input file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by the -d option.
If '-' is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly,
for each instance of '-'.
EXIT STATUS
The paste utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
List the files in the current directory in three columns:
ls | paste - - -
Combine pairs of lines from a file into single lines:
paste -s -d '
' myfile
Number the lines in a file, similar to nl(1):
sed = myfile | paste -s -d '
' - -
Create a colon-separated list of directories named bin, suitable for use in the PATH environment variable:
find / -name bin -type d | paste -s -d : -
SEE ALSO cut(1), lam(1)STANDARDS
The paste utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.
HISTORY
A paste command appeared in Version 32V AT&T UNIX.
BSD June 25, 2004 BSD