I have a tab-Delimited file:
Eg:
'test' file contains:
a<tab>b<tab>c<tab>....
Based on certain condition, I wanna increase the number of lines of this file.How do I do that
Eg:
If some value in the database is 1 then one line in 'test' file is fine..
If some value in the database is 2... (1 Reply)
I have a folder that contains say 50 files in a sequential order:
cdf_1.txt
cdf_2.txt
cdf_3.txt
cdf_3.txt
.
.
.
cdf_50.txt.
I need to merge these files in the same order into a single tab delimited file.
I used the following shell script:
for x in {1..50};
do cat cdf_${x}.txt >>... (3 Replies)
Hi Forum
I have a tab delimited file that opens well in Openoffice calc (excel). But when I perform any operation in command line, it reads the file incorrectly. When I 'save As' the same file in office as tab delimited then it works fine.
The file that I think is tab delimited is actually... (8 Replies)
Hi Forum.
I'm struggling to find a solution for the following issue.
I have multiple files a1.txt, a2.txt, a3.txt, etc. and I would like to insert a tab-delimited header record at the beginning of each of the files.
This is my code so far but it's not working as expected.
for i in... (2 Replies)
Here's a sample of the data:
NAME BIRTHDAY SEX LOCATION AGE ID
Jim 05/11/1986 M Japan 27 86
Rei 08/25/1990 F Korea 24 33
Jane 02/24/1985 F India 29 78
I've been trying to sort files using the... (8 Replies)
Hi, I have a rquirement in unix as below .
I have a text file with me seperated by | symbol and i need to generate a excel file through unix commands/script so that each value will go to each column.
ex:
Input Text file:
1|A|apple
2|B|bottle
excel file to be generated as output as... (9 Replies)
Hello,
I have 40 data files where the first three columns are the same (in theory) and the 4th column is different. Here is an example of three files,
file 2: A_f0_r179_pred.txt
Id Group Name E0
1 V N(,)'1 0.2904
2 V N(,)'2 0.3180
3 V N(,)'3 0.3277
4 V N(,)'4 0.3675
5 V N(,)'5 0.3456
... (8 Replies)
Please know that I am very new to unix and trying to learn 'on the job'. I'm only manipulating large tab-delimited files (millions of rows), but I'm stuck and don't know how to proceed with the following. Hoping for some friendly advice :)
I have 2 tab-delimited files - with differing column &... (10 Replies)
Hello Everyone..
I want to replace the retail col from FileI with cstp1 col from FileP if the strpno matches in both files
FileP.txt
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: YogeshG
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expand
EXPAND(1) User Commands EXPAND(1)NAME
expand - convert tabs to spaces
SYNOPSIS
expand [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Convert tabs in each FILE to spaces, writing to standard output.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-i, --initial
do not convert tabs after non blanks
-t, --tabs=N
have tabs N characters apart, not 8
-t, --tabs=LIST
use comma separated list of tab positions The last specified position can be prefixed with '/' to specify a tab size to use after
the last explicitly specified tab stop. Also a prefix of '+' can be used to align remaining tab stops relative to the last speci-
fied tab stop instead of the first column
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO unexpand(1)
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/expand>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) expand invocation'
GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 EXPAND(1)