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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers To remove double quotes from specific columns Post 303012822 by abdulbadii on Friday 9th of February 2018 11:48:58 PM
Old 02-10-2018
Code:
a="event_log_id","event_id","event_name","event_time","insertion_time","event_args","src_mac","src_name","src_util_id","src_device_type","src_event_count","src_admin_state","src_ops_state","src_location_util_id","src_location_type","src_service_pt_util_id","src_service_pt_type","src_addr_line1","src_addr_line2"

i=0
for s in `echo $a |sed 's/,/ /g'`
 do
 let i+=1
 if [ $i -ge 2 ]; then echo -n ,; fi
 if [ $i = 5 -o $i = 6 -o $i = 9 -o $i = 10 -o $i =14 ]
 then
   echo -n $s |sed 's/\"//g'
 else
  echo -n $s
 fi 
done


Last edited by abdulbadii; 02-10-2018 at 01:31 AM..
 

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echo(3XCURSES)						  X/Open Curses Library Functions					    echo(3XCURSES)

NAME
echo, noecho - enable/disable terminal echo SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -I /usr/xpg4/include -L /usr/xpg4/lib -R /usr/xpg4/lib -lcurses [ library... ] c89 [ flag... ] file... -lcurses [ library... ] #include <curses.h> int echo(void); int noecho(void); DESCRIPTION
The echo() function enables Echo mode for the current screen. The noecho() function disables Echo mode for the current screen. Initially, curses software echo mode is enabled and hardware echo mode of the tty driver is disabled. The echo() and noecho() functions control soft- ware echo only. Hardware echo must remain disabled for the duration of the application, else the behavior is undefined. RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, these functions return OK. Otherwise, they return ERR. ERRORS
No errors are defined. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Unsafe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
getch(3XCURSES), getstr(3XCURSES), initscr(3XCURSES), libcurses(3XCURSES), scanw(3XCURSES), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.11 5 Jun 2002 echo(3XCURSES)
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