How can we convert pipe delimited ( or comma ) file to vertical tab (VT) delimited.
Use the tr-utility to replace one specific (delimiter) character with another. As long as there are no additional complications (see below) this would suffice. Consult the man page of tr for details.
Notice, that, depending on you input data, it might be more complicated than that: Suppose your input looks like:
and you want to skip the quoted pipe inside field3 you will have to use a parser. Anything short of such a program will not be fully able to "understand" your input and translate the separator characters into different ones accordingly.
i have a file whose data is like this::
osr_pe_assign|-120|wg000d@att.com|4|
osr_evt|-21|wg000d@att.com|4|
pe_avail|-21|wg000d@att.com|4|
osr_svt|-11|wg000d@att.com|4|
pe_mop|-13|wg000d@att.com|4|
instar_ready|-35|wg000d@att.com|4|
nsdnet_ready|-90|wg000d@att.com|4|... (6 Replies)
I have a text file that made using text editor in Ubuntu. However the text file is not being recognized as space or tab delimited, the formatting seems to be messed up. How can I convert the text file into tab delimited format? (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I have space delimited file similar to the one as shown below.. I need to convert it as a pipe delimited, the values inside the pipe delimited file should be as highlighted...
AA ATIU2345098809 009697 005374
BB ATIU2345097809 005445 006518
CC ATIU9685098809 003215 003571
DD... (7 Replies)
I have a file which was pipe delimited, I need to make it tab delimited. I tried with sed but no use
cat file | sed 's/|//t/g'
The above command substituted "/t" not tab in the place of pipe.
Sample file:
abc|123|2012-01-30|2012-04-28|xyz
have to convert to:
abc 123... (6 Replies)
Hello,
I have a text file with space and tab (mixed) delimited file and need to convert into CSV.
# cat test.txt
/dev/rmt/tsmmt32 HP Ultrium 6-SCSI J3LZ 50:03:08:c0:02:72:c0:b5 F00272C0B5 0/0/6/1/1.145.17.255.0.0.0 /dev/rmt/c102t0d0BEST
/dev/rmt/tsmmt37 ... (6 Replies)
Hi, I have a rquirement in unix as below .
I have a text file with me seperated by | symbol and i need to generate a excel file through unix commands/script so that each value will go to each column.
ex:
Input Text file:
1|A|apple
2|B|bottle
excel file to be generated as output as... (9 Replies)
Hi
i have a problem in my job
i try to convert an excel file (xls extention) to text file (tab delimited), but no result with this comand
cat xxx.xls > xxx.txt
Do you have eny idea?
PS: sorry for my english
Thanks!! (4 Replies)
I have file in linux with comma delimited and string fields in double quotations ", I need to convert them to pipe delimiter please share your inputs.
Example:
Input:
"2017-09-30","ACBD,TVF","01234",NULL,18,NULL,"686091802","BANK OF ABCD, LIMITED, THE",790456
Output:
... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: shieksir
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cut
CUT(1) FSF CUT(1)NAME
cut - remove sections from each line of files
SYNOPSIS
cut [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Print selected parts of lines from each FILE to standard output.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-b, --bytes=LIST
output only these bytes
-c, --characters=LIST
output only these characters
-d, --delimiter=DELIM
use DELIM instead of TAB for field delimiter
-f, --fields=LIST
output only these fields; also print any line that contains no delimiter character, unless the -s option is specified
-n with -b: don't split multibyte characters
-s, --only-delimited
do not print lines not containing delimiters
--output-delimiter=STRING
use STRING as the output delimiter the default is to use the input delimiter
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
Use one, and only one of -b, -c or -f. Each LIST is made up of one range, or many ranges separated by commas. Each range is one of:
N N'th byte, character or field, counted from 1
N- from N'th byte, character or field, to end of line
N-M from N'th to M'th (included) byte, character or field
-M from first to M'th (included) byte, character or field
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
AUTHOR
Written by David Ihnat, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for cut is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and cut programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info cut
should give you access to the complete manual.
cut (coreutils) 4.5.3 February 2003 CUT(1)