I suppose "file name" should read "filename", otherwise these would be two filenames without quoting, but otherwise both these should work as expected. If they don't (btw: telling us "does not work" is not enough, SHOW us HOW it doesn't work, i.e. by copying a terminal session) you may investigate one of these:
- Windows files
Maybe your line endings are not what they seem to be. If your files originate in Windows/DOS this is likely to be the case. Use od -ax file to verify.
- output neglected?
sed puts it output not into the file but to <stdout>. If you do not redirect it into a new file and move that over the old one your changes will be lost. i.e.:
To think of other issues you will have to tell us a bit more about your environment: shell? OS-version?
Hi champs!
I have a fixed width file in which the records appear like this
11111 <fixed spaces such as 6> description for 11111 <fixed spaces such as 6> some more field to the record of 11111
22222 <fixed spaces such as 6> description for 22222 <fixed spaces such as 6> some more field to the... (8 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have data in a file as follows:
a 1 2 3
b 4 5 6
a 6 7 8
a 4 7 9
b 6 8 5
c 0 8 7
So the number of rows which have data is variable (2 for the first group, one for the second group and three for the third group), but the delimiters between the... (10 Replies)
What's the best way to find a string in a very long file without newlines in Unix? The standard utility I'm aware of for finding a string in a single file is grep, but for a long file without newlines, I think the output is just going to be the input. I suppose I could use sed to replace the... (5 Replies)
Hello. I'm making a (hopefully) simple shell script xml parser that outputs a file I can grep for information. I am writing it because I have yet to find a command line utility that can do this. If you know of one, please just stop now and tell me about it. Even better would be one I can input... (10 Replies)
Hi All,
My file looks like this:
1 2 3
3 4 5
6 7 8
8 7 6
3 4 5
3 6 7
3 4 5
1 2 4
3 4 6
2 4 6
As you can see there are two newlines after the next pattern of numbers begin. (4 Replies)
Hello! This is my first post here.
I have a file with text like:
A</title>
B
C</title>
D
I need to format it to:
AB
CD
I am trying to use sed: sed 's/<//title>\n/ /g' file > newfile
to delete </title> and the newline character, but the file is unchanged because there are... (3 Replies)
Hi buddy's
my file are like this:
s.no,name,band,sal
1,"suneel",,10
2,"bargav
sand",,20
30,"
ebdug gil",,4
but i want
s.no,name,band,sal
1,"suneel",,10
2,"bargav sand",,20
30,"ebdug gil",,4
any command or Shell script for this.
please help me it's urgent to implement (33 Replies)
I need to remove new lines and carriage returns from csv file.
Is there anything other than sed and gwak by which we could achieve this ? Any suggestions ? (3 Replies)
Hi All -
I am in need of some help in formating the below file
Requirement -
1) replace newlines with space
2) replace '#~# ' with newline
-----------------------
sample inputfile a
I|abc|abc|aaa#~#
I|sddddd|tya|dfg
sfd
ssss#~#
I|tya1|tya2|dfg|sfd|aaa#~#... (5 Replies)