I have a file with delimiter ~
ABC~12~43~TR ~890~poi~YU ~56~65
What I want is to remove spaces from column 4,7 and other columns as it is
So, the final file becomes
ABC~12~43~TR~890~poi~YU~56~65 (7 Replies)
hey..
i had a problem with the unix command when i want to remove the white spaces in a string..i guess i cud do it with a sed command but i get an error when i give space in the square brackets..
string="nh hjh llk"
p=`echo $string | sed 's/ //g'`
i donno how to give space charater and... (2 Replies)
Hey,
I'm using the command from this thread https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/590-converting-list-into-line.html
to convert vertical lines to horzontal lines. But I need to remove the spaces that is created. Unfortunately I can't figure out where the space is in the code..
I... (2 Replies)
I want a user to be able to paste in a string like "01 3F 20 1F" and have the script reformat it to "013F201F" to pass it on to the next step.
I was trying to figure it out with awk but wasnt working well.
Never mind, found answer. did not know about tr :) (7 Replies)
Hello All,
I am trying to remove all tabspaces and all blankspaces from my file using sed & awk, but not getting proper code. Please help me out.
My file is like this (<b> means one blank space, <t> means one tab space)-
$ cat file
NARESH<b><b><b>KUMAR<t><t>PRADHAN... (3 Replies)
HI
i have record as shown below
402665,4X75,754X_FERNIE BC,12F2,008708,FERNIE BC,1,UTC ,UTC ,250
402665,4X75,754X_FERNIE BC,F212,008708,FERNIE BC,1,UTC ,UTC ,250
402665,4Y75,754Y_FERNIE BC,22F2,008708,FERNIE BC,1,UTC ,UTC ,250
here i want to remove multiple spaces into no... (3 Replies)
I have a problem mounting images because of the spaces in the filenames. Does anyone know how to rename files by removing the spaces with the find command?
find Desktop/$dir -name "*.dmg" -print -exec ??? (4 Replies)
Consider my input string as "abc|b f g|bj gy"
I am expecting the output as "abc|bfg|bj gy".
Please let me know how to achieve this in unix?
Thanks (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: pandeesh
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shtool-subst
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)