1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I am currently confused. Suppose I have a file something like the one below. 4299|raj Telecommunications|12||||| 4302|anjali International Ltd.|86|ritchie||dong|(000)2890 9993 |(222)4881 3689 4305|ﾌｨﾃﾞｭｼｱﾘ･ﾄ�-ｽﾄ･ｲﾝﾀｰ�...ｼｮ�...ﾙ投資顧問株式会社 |112||||01-9211-1931 |08-3677-1985 Now... (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a text file which is not fixed width. I want to put trailing spaces to each line and make it a 100 byte fixed width file. Can someone please help me as soon as possible? Thanks, Denis (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to strip all leading and trailing spaces of a shell variable using either awk or sed or any other utility, however unscuccessful and need your help. echo $SH_VAR | command_line Syntax. The SH_VAR contains embedded spaces which needs to be preserved. I need only for the leading and... (6 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello folks, Is there a simple way to trim trailing spaces from each line a file. Please let me know. Regards, Tipsy. (5 Replies)

5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

am get a value like ' 15' in a variable what is the easiest method i can follow to strip 15 out (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I'm new to shell programming. Need some help in the following requirement: I have a file origFile.txt with values: origFile.txt .00~ 145416.02~ xyz~ ram kishor .35~ 765.76~ anh reid~ kishna kerry Now each row in the file has value for 4 columns with "~" as... (7 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm currently writing my sql results to a file and they have trailing spaces after each field. I want to get rid of these spaces and I'm using this code: TVXTEMP=$(echo $TVXTEMP|sed -e 's/\ //g') It doesn't work though. I'm not familiar with sedscript, and the other codes I've found online... (6 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have textfile (source.txt) with different length of lines in it. Can anybody help to compose a script under bash which would add suitable number of trailing spaces to the end of each line so that after the processing the each line would have the same (let's say 100 char) length? Output can be... (6 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

All, i am comparing the output of one command to a numberic if ] but my problem is the output of follwoing is but but has some leading columns. I don't have any problme in LINUX and HP-UX. But only in AIX i am getting the leading spaces. I have developed my script on LINUX but when... (4 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am trying to remove leading and trailing spaces from a file using awk but somehow I have not been able to do it. Here is the data that I want to trim. 07/12/2017 15:55:00 |entinfdev |AD ping Time ms | .474| 1.41| .581|green |flat... (9 Replies)