I don't know why one would want to use the above code instead of other suggestions that have been provided by others in this thread. The request presented in this thread is to process a file in CSV format with one line from a sample file provided to show the desired behavior. Nowhere is it suggested that files to be processed will only contain one line.
Note that there is a syntax error (marked in red above). That portion of the conditional expression would need to be changed to $i = 14 (note the added <space> between the = and the 14) to get rid of the syntax error.
If the syntax error is corrected, the above code (instead of invoking awk once per file or sed once per file assuming that invocation of sed includes five substitution commands) invokes sed five times for each line in each file to be processed. With anything more than a few lines, invoking sed so often would use significantly more system resources and cause a script using this method to run slower than scripts using the other suggestions provided in this thread.
Last edited by Don Cragun; 02-10-2018 at 12:36 PM..
Reason: Update statement on how many times sed is invoked by RudiC's suggestion.
A Triva question.
What is the easy way to remove the double quotes in the file in the following format.
"asdfa","fdgh","qwer"
tr -d '\"' <filename >newfilename
mv newfilename oldfilename
This need to be handled in a script. Any better way to do this. Will sed be more effecient?
One... (3 Replies)
I want to remove the comma which is present within the double quoted string. All other commas which is present outside double quotes should be present.
Input : a,b,"cc,dd,ee",f,ii,"jj,kk",mmm
output : a,b,"ccddee",f,ii,"jjkk",mmm (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to replace a specific column values in a csv file with double quotes.
Example:
SNO,NAME,ZIPCODE,RANK
1,Robert,74538,12
2,Sam,07564,13
3,Kim, Ed,12345,14
Desired Output:
SNO,NAME,ZIPCODE,RANK
1,Robert Ken,74538,12
2,Sam Mik,"07564",13
3,"Kim, Ed",12345,14
I... (3 Replies)
Hi i have a file with follw data
"20090427","0","","16371311","-100200","","","","16371311","JUL","09"
In the 10th column i need to convert the month name into month number in this case JUL will be 7 and append the 10th and 11th column which shows me the output as 709. Can you suggest a shell... (11 Replies)
I would like to know how to replace a space delimiter with a ^_ (\037) delimiter and a double quote delimiter while maintaining the spaces inside the double quotes. The double quote delimiter is only used on text fields.
I'd prefer a one-liner, but could handle a function or script that accepts... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am little new to forum and new on unix side. I have a small issue below:
I am reading a file that has 5 columns something like below.
col1,col2,col3,col4,col5
Some records are having double quoted values something like below:
"value1","value2","value3","value4","value5"
I need... (8 Replies)
Hi All,
I'm unable to load the data using sql loader where there are double quotes within the double quotes As these are optionally enclosed by double quotes.
Sample Data :
"221100",138.00,"D","0019/1477","44012075","49938","49938/15043000","Television - 22" Refurbished - Airwave","Supply... (6 Replies)
I have file with are delimited by pipe(|) symbol, I wanted those to be removed except the ones which are enclosed in double quotes.
If your quote file is:
|Life is |Beautiful"|"Indeed life |is beautiful too|"|"But unix is fun| is not"|"
It should return:
Life is Beautiful"|"Indeed life is... (9 Replies)
Hi All,
I have my data like below
"1","abc,db","hac,aron","4","5"
Now I need to extract 1,2,4th columns
Output should be like
"1",abc,db","4"
Am trying to use cut command but not able to get the results.
Thanks in advance. (4 Replies)
Please use code tags
Hi,
I have input data is below format and n of column in the multiple flat files. the string data has any double quotes(") values replaced to double double quotes for all the columns{"").
Also, my input flat file each column string data has carriage of new line too.... (14 Replies)