1. Shell Programming and Scripting

hello A small shell scripting help.. I have a file say with 5 lines of text (text file). At the end of everyline I need to add a comma at the end of the file. Thanks, ST2000 (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I must remove hex characters 0A and 0D from several fields within an MS Access Table. Since I don't think it can be done in Access, I am trying here. I am exporting a Table from Access (must be fixed length fields, I think, for my idea to work here) into a text format. I then want to run a... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Please let me know how to find text and print text and its previous line. Please don't get irritated few days back I asked text and next line. I am using HP-UX 11.11 Thanks for your help. (6 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a log file that contains several reports with following format. <Start of delimiter> Report1 header Report1 header continue Report1 header continue Record1 header Record1 header continue Record1 header continue field1 field2 field3 field4 ------... (1 Reply)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have file like this "copy table_name from filea.txt on node replace delimiter '|';" "copy table_name from fileb.txt on node replace delimiter '|';" "copy table_name from filec.txt on node replace delimiter'|';" "copy table_name from filee.txt on node replace delimiter '|';" "copy... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I need to write a Perl script that the file given as first argument of the command line that will find all occurrences of the string given as the third argument of the command line and replace with the string given as the fourth argument. Name newfound file is specified as the second... (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Is it possible to replace a line of text within a file while it's closed with a single command or a script? Please show me an example or point me to a webpage that shows an example. The file has this line of text: LoginGraceTime 100 I want to replace it with the following: ... (2 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, Is there a one-liner that I can use to change a line of text into a comma delimited string? For example, convert user1 user2 user3 user4to user1,user2,user3,user4Currently using while read x, although got the extra comma at the end that I have to remove manually. Please... (5 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am trying to compare 2 lists. However, one of these lists has to be taken from a.pdf file. When I copy the test into a .txt document there are formatting errors which I need to correct. The document is long (~10,000 lines) so I need to script the re-formatting. Currently my file looks... (9 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I am new to Unix and I have one challenge and below are the details. I have pipe delimited text file in that data has span into multiple lines instead of single line. Sample data. Data should be like below for entire file. 41|216|398555|77|provided complete NP outcome data ... (21 Replies)