Without showing us what input you had that produced that output, we have to assume that your input had leading vertical bars. When I try the code you showed us in post #16 with the input:
the output I get is:
What shell are you using?
My issue is the following:
I have several text files, let's say 10 of them. Each one has three columns separated by a tab: Date, Time and Value. What I want to do next is to have only one text file containing the information: Date, Time, Value1, Value2, Value3, ... , Value10, where Value1... (2 Replies)
HI
can any one tell me how to replace a delimiter : with another delimiter '\001' it is a non printable octal character.
thanks in adv
spandu (4 Replies)
Hi,
Am trying to write a shell script which will append a header and a footer to an existing file. Header will contain details like the current date while the footer will contain the no: of records listed in the file.
I know we can use the CAT command, but i have no clue abt the syntax to... (4 Replies)
Hi everybody,
This time I am having one issue in perl.
I have to create comma separated file using the following type of information. The problem is the columns do not have any specific delimiter. So while using split I am getting different value. Some where it is space(S) and some where it is... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I need to append the data in to a file by using tab delimiter.
eg:
echo "Data1" >> filename.txt
echo "\t" >> filename.txt (its not working)
echo "Data2" >> filename.txt.
the result sould be like this.
Data1 Data2 (6 Replies)
Hi.
I wrote a very simple script and it doesn't work :(
It is supposed to go to a certain directory, execute some command and append the output to the file "expo.dat"
what it does is that it writes to the file only one entery. I dont know if Im using the write synthax for "append". Here is... (3 Replies)
A friend contacted me recently with an interesting question. We got something worked out, but I'm curious what answers you all can come up with.
Given a shell script (in bash) that processes a bunch of data and appends it to a file, how would you append the date, time, and a filename to the... (6 Replies)
I’m new to Linux script and not sure how to filter out bad records from huge flat files (over 1.3GB each). The delimiter is a semi colon “;”
Here is the sample of 5 lines in the file:
Name1;phone1;address1;city1;state1;zipcode1
Name2;phone2;address2;city2;state2;zipcode2;comment... (7 Replies)
Hi
I have a file called text.txt contains
x
y
z
when i run a command i will get output like below
x 20
z 30
i want to insert x, z value in text.txt file and should be like this
x 20
y 0
z 30
can anyone help me please? (1 Reply)
My file has data that looks like below:
more data.txt
I wish to display each string seperated by a delimiter :
Expected output:
I tried the below but I m not getting every split string on a new line.
#!/bin/bash
for i in `sed 's/:/\\n/g' data.txt`;
do
echo -n... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mohtashims
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
tzselect
TZSELECT(8) System Manager's Manual TZSELECT(8)NAME
tzselect - select a time zone
SYNOPSIS
tzselect
DESCRIPTION
The tzselect program asks the user for information about the current location, and outputs the resulting time zone description to standard
output. The output is suitable as a value for the TZ environment variable.
All interaction with the user is done via standard input and standard error.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
AWK Name of a Posix-compliant awk program (default: awk).
TZDIR Name of the directory containing time zone data files (default: /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo).
FILES
TZDIR/iso3166.tab
Table of ISO 3166 2-letter country codes and country names.
TZDIR/zone.tab
Table of country codes, latitude and longitude, TZ values, and descriptive comments.
TZDIR/TZ
Time zone data file for time zone TZ.
EXIT STATUS
The exit status is zero if a time zone was successfully obtained from the user, nonzero otherwise.
SEE ALSO newctime(3), tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8)TZSELECT(8)