09-29-2017
Welcome to the forum.
Please become accustomed to provide decent context info of your problem.
It is always helpful to carefully and detailedly phrase a request, and to support it with system info like OS and shell, related environment (variables, options), preferred tools, adequate (representative) sample input and desired output data and the logics connecting the two including your own attempts at a solution, and, if existent, system (error) messages verbatim, to avoid ambiguities and keep people from guessing.
Being a newbie, you might want to learn to "write" a decent specification (on top of the remarks here above) with due care, avoiding or, resp., answering questions before they arise. Here:
- you seem to need more than a single line, not - as you write - a row.
- in your desired output, there's a "text" - where does that come from?
- how and why (by which rules) have 5 "b"s been converted to 4 "b"s?
- is there any underlying structure to be obeyed - I can't see why lines 7 and 8 are being appended to a "text" or nothing and transferred to the start of file, then lines 4 - 6 being appended to lines 1 - 3?
Why should anyone care more for your request than you do?
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I want to write a shell script which increments a particular column in a row from a text file and then adds another row below the current row with the incremented value .
For Eg .
if the input file has a row :
abc xyz lmn 89 lm nk o p
I would like the script to create something like... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: aYankeeFan
9 Replies
2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys,
I have a file as follows:
a 1
b 786
c 90709
d 99
a 9875
b 989
c 887
d 111
I want:
a 1 9875
b 786 989 (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: npatwardhan
3 Replies
3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear friends,
Below is my program and current output. I wish to have 3 or 4 column output in order to accomodate in single page. i do have subsequent command to process after user enter the number.
Program
COUNT=1
for MYDIR in `ls /`
do
VOBS=${MYDIR}
echo "${COUNT}. ${MYDIR}"
... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: baluchen
4 Replies
4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I have an input file like the following:
11_3_4
2_1_35
3_15__
_16989
Where '_' is a space. The data is in a table. Is there a way for the program to prompt the user for x1,y1 and x2,y2, where x1,y1 is the desired number (for example x=6 y=4 is a value of 4) and move to a desired spot... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: jl487
2 Replies
5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How do you delete cells from a space delimited text file given row and column number? Letś say the row number is r and the column number is c. Thanks! (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: evelibertine
5 Replies
6. Shell Programming and Scripting
cat file1.txt
field1 "user1":
field2:"data-cde"
field3:"data-pqr"
field4:"data-mno"
field1 "user1":
field2:"data-dcb"
field3:"data-mxz"
field4:"data-zul"
field1 "user2":
field2:"data-cqz"
field3:"data-xoq"
field4:"data-pos"
Now i need to have the date like below.
i have just... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: ckaramsetty
7 Replies
7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
I want to convert a 3-column data to 3-row data using shell script. Any suggestion in this regard is highly appreciated.
Thanks. (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: sktkpl
4 Replies
8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I would like to add a new column containing the row numbers to a text file. How do I go about doing that? Thanks!
Example input:
A X
B Y
C D
Output:
A X 1
B Y 2
C D 3 (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: evelibertine
5 Replies
9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
file with this content
awk 'NR==1 {print $4} && NR==2 {print $5}' file
The error is shown with syntax error; what can be done (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: cdfd123
4 Replies
10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a comma separated file. I would like to print every alternate columns into a new row.
Example input file:
Name : John, Age : 30, DOB : 30-Oct-2018
Example output:
Name,Age,DOB
John,30,30-Oct-2018 (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Lini
3 Replies
LEARN ABOUT LINUX
erl_comment_scan
erl_comment_scan(3erl) Erlang Module Definition erl_comment_scan(3erl)
NAME
erl_comment_scan - Functions for reading comment lines from Erlang source code.
DESCRIPTION
Functions for reading comment lines from Erlang source code.
DATA TYPES
comment() = {integer(), integer(), integer(), [string()]} :
EXPORTS
file(FileName::filename() (see module file)) -> [Comment]
Types Comment = {Line, Column, Indentation, Text}
Line = integer()
Column = integer()
Indentation = integer()
Text = [string()]
Extracts comments from an Erlang source code file. Returns a list of entries representing multi-line comments, listed in order of
increasing line-numbers. For each entry, Text is a list of strings representing the consecutive comment lines in top-down order; the
strings contain all characters following (but not including) the first comment-introducing % character on the line, up to (but not
including) the line-terminating newline.
Furthermore, Line is the line number and Column the left column of the comment (i.e., the column of the comment-introducing % char-
acter). Indent is the indentation (or padding), measured in character positions between the last non-whitespace character before the
comment (or the left margin), and the left column of the comment. Line and Column are always positive integers, and Indentation is a
nonnegative integer.
Evaluation exits with reason {read, Reason} if a read error occurred, where Reason is an atom corresponding to a Posix error code;
see the module file(3erl) for details.
join_lines(Lines::[CommentLine]) -> [Comment]
Types CommentLine = {Line, Column, Indent, string()}
Line = integer()
Column = integer()
Indent = integer()
Comment = {Line, Column, Indent, Text}
Text = [string()]
Joins individual comment lines into multi-line comments. The input is a list of entries representing individual comment lines, in
order of decreasing line-numbers ; see scan_lines/1 for details. The result is a list of entries representing multi-line comments,
still listed in order of decreasing line-numbers , but where for each entry, Text is a list of consecutive comment lines in order of
increasing line-numbers (i.e., top-down).
See also: scan_lines/1 .
scan_lines(Text::string()) -> [CommentLine]
Types CommentLine = {Line, Column, Indent, Text}
Line = integer()
Column = integer()
Indent = integer()
Text = string()
Extracts individual comment lines from a source code string. Returns a list of comment lines found in the text, listed in order of
decreasing line-numbers, i.e., the last comment line in the input is first in the resulting list. Text is a single string, contain-
ing all characters following (but not including) the first comment-introducing % character on the line, up to (but not including)
the line-terminating newline. For details on Line , Column and Indent , see file/1 .
string(Text::string()) -> [Comment]
Types Comment = {Line, Column, Indentation, Text}
Line = integer()
Column = integer()
Indentation = integer()
Text = [string()]
Extracts comments from a string containing Erlang source code. Except for reading directly from a string, the behaviour is the same
as for file/1 .
See also: file/1 .
AUTHORS
Richard Carlsson <richardc@it.uu.se >
syntax_tools 1.6.7 erl_comment_scan(3erl)