I see if your 1234 line is followed by a 1123 line you don't want to combine lines. For the following I assume your data will never have a tilde character "~". If it does substitute some other "never happen" character or stream of characters in the sed command file.
Here I change the newline to a tilde. If the characters after that are 1123, change the tilde back to a newline. If not, delete the tilde and the line following 1234 will remain appended.
Hi,
I know, particular value in the variable should always be of lenth 7 , but the value that is present in thevariable might be of any no.of characters less than or equal to 7... if the no.of characters in the variable is less than 7, I want to add, zeroes at the starting of the field.. How can... (3 Replies)
Hi, all.
I need to convert a file tab delimited/variable length file in AIX to a fixed lenght file delimited by spaces. This is the input file:
10200002<tab>US$ COM<tab>16/12/2008<tab>2,3775<tab>2,3783
19300978<tab>EURO<tab>16/12/2008<tab>3,28523<tab>3,28657
And this is the expected... (2 Replies)
I have a customer who logged some cc and bank account numbers in their apache logs. I got the cc numbers x'd out with
sed -e 's/args=\{16\}/args=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/g' -e 's/cardnum=\{16\}/cardnum=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/g'but that wasn't too difficult due to the value being 16 digits.
The bank account... (7 Replies)
Hello,
I really would appreciate some help with a bash script for some string manipulation on an SQL dump:
I'd like to be able to rename "sites/WHATEVER/files" to "sites/SOMETHINGELSE/files" within the sql dump.
This is quite easy with sed:
sed -e... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I am trying to find the best way of making a change to 1 char in a string, the string can be between 1 and 14 characters.
I am reading a line in from a file which contains
012341231231:2:102939283:NNN: Require :NBN:
012838238232:3:372932:NNN: Require :NNB:
I need to change 1 N or a... (8 Replies)
Hi,
i call my shell like:
my_shell "my project name"
my script:
#!/bin/bash -vx
projectname=$1
sed s/'PROJECT_NAME ='/'PROJECT_NAME = '$projectname/ <test_config_doxy >temp
cp temp test_config_doxy
the following error occurres:
sed s/'PROJECT_NAME ... (2 Replies)
Hi All
I want to take a Hexadecimal number as input and i want to find lenth of the input and pass it to char s ( char s ). I have a program to convert hexadecial to binary but it is taking limited input but i want to return binary number based on input. How? (1 Reply)
Can someone tell me how I can do this?
e.g:
a=$(echo -e wert trewt ertert ertert ertert erttert
erterte
rterter
tertertert
ert)
How do i replace the STRING with $a?
I try this:
sed -i 's/STRING/'"$a"'/g' filename.ext
but this don' t work (2 Replies)
I am trying to get text from a webpage, in terminal form. So far I am:
1. getting the html for the page printed using curl (curl -s webpage.com), which is then
2. piped to awk, printing line number 29 (awk NR==29), then
3. this is where I am sort of lost. I know where in the printed line I... (7 Replies)
Hi All,
We have variable block file generated on Mainframe. We have to process the file on unix. So we FTPed the file on binary (as it has packed decimal fields). but i don't know how to read the file on unix.
As you know variable block file will have a data like
record length followed by... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: SundarGampa
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paste
PASTE(1) BSD General Commands Manual PASTE(1)NAME
paste -- merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
SYNOPSIS
paste [-s] [-d list] file ...
DESCRIPTION
The paste utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files, replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a
single tab character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output. If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files
still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source of empty lines.
The options are as follows:
-d list Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline characters instead of the default tab. The characters in list
are used circularly, i.e., when list is exhausted the first character from list is reused. This continues until a line from the
last input file (in default operation) or the last line in each file (using the -s option) is displayed, at which time paste
begins selecting characters from the beginning of list again.
The following special characters can also be used in list:
newline character
tab character
\ backslash character
Empty string (not a null character).
Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the character itself.
-s Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line order. The newline character of every line except the
last line in each input file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by the -d option.
If '-' is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly,
for each instance of '-'.
EXAMPLES
List the files in the current directory in three columns:
ls | paste - - -
Combine pairs of lines from a file into single lines:
paste -s -d '
' myfile
Number the lines in a file, similar to nl(1):
sed = myfile | paste -s -d '
' - -
Create a colon-separated list of directories named bin, suitable for use in the PATH environment variable:
find / -name bin -type d | paste -s -d : -
DIAGNOSTICS
The paste utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO cut(1), lam(1)STANDARDS
The paste utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.
HISTORY
A paste command appeared in Version 32V AT&T UNIX.
BUGS
Multibyte character delimiters cannot be specified with the -d option.
BSD September 20, 2001 BSD