Thanks for your inputs, can this be modified in my code which runs in bash
The tail command in RudiC's suggestion copies your source files to their destinations removing "$HDCNT" lines of headers during the copy.
Your code above will do two things:
The shell will see the redirection and truncate the file named by the expansion of $file to size 0, and then
The sed command will delete the 1st line (of the empty file) named by the expansion of $file and copy the remaining (non-existent) lines to the output.
Do you really want to change your input files before you copy their contents to their destinations, or do you just need to remove the header lines from the copied files? If you don't need to modify the source files:
will do what you want. If you need to change the source files too:
is a safe way to do what you want without breaking links to your source file (if any existed).
Hi,
I need some help in removing the header (first line) and the trailer (last line) in a give file...
The data file actually comes in EBCDIC format and I converted it into ASCII..
Now I need to strip off the first line and the last line..
I think we can use sed to do something like this:... (2 Replies)
All,
I am new to unix and i have the following requirement.
I have file(s) landing into input directory with timestamp, first i want to copy all these files into seperate directory then i want to rename these files without timestamp and also remove header,trailer from that file..
Could... (35 Replies)
Hi,
Here we have a situation where we have to check the file size and if the file size is greater than 0 bytes then remove the files from the directory.
1)EdwTrxn 2)EdwPost 3)EdwTndr 4)EdwSls 5)EdwSlsRej 6)EdwTndrRej
Files will be created in the directory in the following manner.
... (5 Replies)
Hi
I am writing a perl script which checks for the specific column values from a file and writes to the OUT file.
So the feed file has a header information and footer information.
I header information isaround107 lines i.e.
Starts with
START-OF-FILE
.......
so on ....
... (11 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying write a simple command using AWK and SED to this but without any success.
Here is what I am using:
head -1 test1.txt>test2.txt|sed '1d;$d' test1.txt|awk '{print substr($0,0,(length($0)-2))}' >>test2.txt|tail -1 test1.txt>>test2.txt
Input:
Header
1234567
abcdefgh... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I want to remove the content based on the header information .
Please find the example below.
File1.txt
Name|Last|First|Location|DepId|Depname|DepLoc
naga|rr|tion|hyd|1|wer|opr
Nava|ra|tin|gen|2|wera|opra
I have to search for the DepId and remove the data from the... (5 Replies)
Hi,
In my server, the hostname and IP addresses are added to the known_hosts which then be hashed by ssh-keygen -H -f. Is it possible to check if an IP address has already been added to the hashed known_hosts to avoid duplications (I think there will be problems if there are duplicated IP... (3 Replies)
Hi Folks,
I have a requirement to develop a shell script. PFB my requirement,
Requirement:
I need to check an empty line after the end of each header in respective file and if a empty line is present simply echo file OK and if empty line is not present echo "Adding empty line" and add an... (6 Replies)
I've been struggling with this one for quite a while and cannot seem to find a solution for this find/replace scenario. Perhaps I'm getting rusty.
I have a file that contains a number of metrics (exactly 3 fields per line) from a few appliances that are collected in parallel. To identify the... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: verdepollo
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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