I have a pipe delimited file and I'm trying to write a script that will give the character/byte positions of each pipe in the file. There may be some simple way but I don't know what it is... Can someone help with this?
Ex: file has output below
I want the script to tell the char positions of the pipes:
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In my server migration requirement, I need to compare if one file on old server is exactly the same as the corresponding file on the new server.
For diff and comm, the inputs need to be sorted. But I do not want to disturb the content of the file and need to find byte-to-byte match.
Please... (4 Replies)
Hi All
Can anyone please suggest me how to remove the last byte from a falt file .This is from the last line's last BYTE.
Please suggest me something.
Thank's and regards
Vinay (1 Reply)
Hi
i am having text file like this
40000201040005200213072009000000700000050744820906904421
40069300240005200713072009000000067400098543630000920442
i want to replace 9-16 positions of my txt file...by 1234567...in a single line command
i.e
0400052....should be replaced by... (2 Replies)
Hello ,
I need to extract data from specific byte positions of a file.
I have tried the below command
awk ' { printf "%s", substr($0, 642363,642369}' filename
to extract data between byte positions
642363 and 642369 .
However I did not get the expected result.
I am new to awk... (6 Replies)
I am attempting to replace positions 44-46 with YYY if positions 48-50 = XXX.
awk -F "" '{if (substr($0,48,3)=="XXX") $44="YYY"}1' OFS="" $filename > $tempfile
But this is not working, 44-46 is still spaces in my tempfile instead of YYY. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. (9 Replies)
I have a huge file with lot of rows... with each row around 400 characters.. with spaces as well..
(e.g)
Line1:
"AC254600606 USDMI000001Anom01130073981 0000000000000.002005040720991231 ... (13 Replies)
Hi
I am new to Unix Shell scripting have a requirement where I have to replace the "unix 1 byte delimiter" with the "pipe" separator and also remove any carriage returns and line feeds if any
The Source File
4 QFH Jungle Hill 32-34 City Road London SE23 3UX
the output should be ... (3 Replies)
I have a fixed-length positional file. I am trying to replace content of position 4-13 (length=10) with xxxxxxxxxx.
Sample 2 rows in this file:
H0187459823 172SMITH, JOE
H0112345678 172DOE, JANE
In this example 87459823 (from 1st line) and 12345678 (from 2nd line) (both in position... (3 Replies)
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cut
CUT(1) BSD General Commands Manual CUT(1)NAME
cut -- select portions of each line of a file
SYNOPSIS
cut -b list [-n] [file ...]
cut -c list [file ...]
cut -f list [-d delim] [-s] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The cut utility selects portions of each line (as specified by list) from each file and writes them to the standard output. If the file
argument is a single dash ('-') or no file arguments were specified, lines are read from the standard input. The items specified by list can
be in terms of column position or in terms of fields delimited by a special character. Column numbering starts from 1.
list is a comma or whitespace separated set of increasing numbers and/or number ranges. Number ranges consist of a number, a dash (-), and a
second number and select the fields or columns from the first number to the second, inclusive. Numbers or number ranges may be preceded by a
dash, which selects all fields or columns from 1 to the first number. Numbers or number ranges may be followed by a dash, which selects all
fields or columns from the last number to the end of the line. Numbers and number ranges may be repeated, overlapping, and in any order. It
is not an error to select fields or columns not present in the input line.
The options are as follows:
-b list The list specifies byte positions.
-c list The list specifies character positions.
-d string Use the first character of string as the field delimiter character. The default is the <TAB> character.
-f list The list specifies fields, separated by the field delimiter character. The selected fields are output, separated by the field
delimiter character.
-n Do not split multi-byte characters.
-s Suppresses lines with no field delimiter characters. Unless specified, lines with no delimiters are passed through unmodified.
EXIT STATUS
cut exits 0 on success, 1 if an error occurred.
SEE ALSO paste(1)STANDARDS
The cut utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2'').
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