Sponsored Content
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Seperated a Column from 'ESC' Character seperated file Post 303020459 by Don Cragun on Thursday 19th of July 2018 11:56:07 PM
Old 07-20-2018
Hi neha_suri06,
If you want quick replies to your queries, and have those replies have a good chance of woking in your environment, it is crucial that you always tell us what operating system you're using, what shell you're using, and show us what you have tried.

Showing us the output from cat -v file gives us ambiguous data about what the actual contents are of the file named by file might be. If your sample input file has fields delimited by ASCII escape characters, we know that it contains at least two lines each containing somewhere between one and seven fields. To help us test code that might work to solve your problem, it is always better to include a copy of the data you want to process (in CODE tags) or upload a copy of the file itself. If there are questions about the data contained in a file, showing us the output from hexdump -C file (if it is available on your system) or od -bc file (which should be available on any UNIX or UNIX-like system) is always better than cat -v file because they both produce unambiguous output.

Refusing to answer questions about what you have tried and what you have considered trying makes it very clear that, despite what you said in your first post, this problem must not really be urgent for you.

Hi chandan.chaman and wisecracker,
As RudiC has already said, if you look closely at post #1 in this thread, you will see that the sample input show in that post is not the actual contents of the file named op.dat; it is the contents of op.dat after processing by cat -v. From that output, we don't know if there are any circumflex characters in op.dat, but we do know that if there are any, they are data rather than being field delimiters.

If we knew that there are no circumflex characters in the first field in op.dat (which is not stated anywhere in neha_suri06's requirements but might be assumed from the given example), one could try the grossly inefficient:
Code:
cat -v op.dat | awk -F'^' '{print $1}'

Much better solutions could be suggested if we knew what operating system and shell neha_suri06 is using and had a better understand of what neha_suri06 had already tried to solve this problem.

Hoping this helps Smilie ,
Don
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Search and then concat 4m other file (comma seperated)

My query is now a bit simplified. file1.txt names; ID; value1 ; values N; ABC; 1 ; a18 ; ... CDF; 2 ; b16 ; .. ABC; 1 ; c13 ; ...... EFG; 3 ;d12 ; ... file2.txt ID(Unique);smVals; smVal1; smVal N; 1; ...; ...; ...; 2; ..; ..; ..; 3; ..; ..; ..; ... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: szchmaltz
1 Replies

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Problem with tab seperated file in UNIX

Hi All, I am facing a problem while getting the data from an Oracle table Problem: I am getting rows from an Oracle table to a tab seperated file. One of the columns in that table have value with in between spaces like AAAAA AAA It's loading fine to .tab file. But when... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: pssandeep
2 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Removing blank lines from comma seperated and space seperated file.

Hi, I want to remove empty/blank lines from comma seperated and space seperated files Thanks all for help (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: pinnacle
11 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Trimming fields for comma or pipe seperated file

I have file like this FileA: abc , "helloworld" , america def,asia, japan ghi, africa, ipl Output Needed: abc,"helloworld",america def,asia,japan ghi,africa,ipl I would like to implement using awk. I want to trim each field for its leading and trailing spaces. (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: pinnacle
7 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Convert comma seperated file to line seperated.

Hi, I have data like this. 1,2,3,4 Output required: 1 2 3 4 I am trying to use tr function but getting error. Help is appreciated. (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: pinnacle
6 Replies

6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

grep 7th column from a file seperated with ^

Hi, Can anyone help: I want to get the 7th column of a file seperated by ^ Num:^ 1^ testdevice1^10.1.1.1^PT1X23^true^HD^175^up^false^bad Num:^ 2^ testdevice2^10.1.1.2^ST1X23^true^SN^175^up^false^bad Expected result: HD SN Appreciate your help. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: sureshcisco
2 Replies

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Need help removing leading spaces from one field in comma seperated file

Using awk or sed, I'd like to remove leading spaces after a comma and before a right justified number in field 6. Sounds simple but I can't find a solution. Each field's formatting must stay intact. Input: 40,123456-02,160,05/24/2012,02/13/1977, 10699.15,0 Output:... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Scottie1954
5 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Seperated by columns, merge in a file, sort them on common column

Hi All, I have 4 files in below format. I took them as an example. File 1: Cut from position 1-4 then 6-7 then 8-14 then rest left and make them as columns in one new file. Inserting character H to the initial of all line like HCTOT. CTOT 456787897 Low fever CTOR 556712345 High fever... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Mannu2525
2 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

SUM semicolon-seperated values from txt-file

Hello, (I'm a shell beginner) how can I sum the bold values of the following txt-file (values.txt) with bash shell. The result of the sum should be written in a new txt file (sum.txt): ... Thanks in advance (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: milu
5 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Need Help in rearranging the content of a file comma seperated

I have a file with the below content a = test1 b = test2 a = test3 b= test4 c = test6 b = test5 d = test7 d = test9 Need the output to be as follows a = test1,test3 b = test2, test5 c = test6 d = test7, test9 (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: iron_michael86
4 Replies
COLRM(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  COLRM(1)

NAME
colrm -- remove columns from a file SYNOPSIS
colrm [start [stop]] DESCRIPTION
The colrm utility removes selected columns from the lines of a file. A column is defined as a single character in a line. Input is read from the standard input. Output is written to the standard output. If only the start column is specified, columns numbered less than the start column will be written. If both start and stop columns are spec- ified, columns numbered less than the start column or greater than the stop column will be written. Column numbering starts with one, not zero. Tab characters increment the column count to the next multiple of eight. Backspace characters decrement the column count by one. ENVIRONMENT
The LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of colrm as described in environ(7). EXIT STATUS
The colrm utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. SEE ALSO
awk(1), column(1), cut(1), paste(1) HISTORY
The colrm command appeared in 3.0BSD. BSD
August 4, 2004 BSD
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 05:29 PM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy