Thanks RudiC -- that works, someone else suggested:
awk '{gsub("/","-",$NF)}1'
the same it appears except for spaces. Both work.
Can you say what's going on here? Looks like number of fields NF and delimiters are being used along with gsub? (what's that), how is this applying only to the last column?
Hello All
I have file which contain sample data like below -
test.txt
----------------------------------------------
jambesh aaa india
trxxx
sdasd
mentor
asss
light
train
bbblah
---------------------------------------------
I want to write a regX which would print only those... (4 Replies)
I've got a file (numbers.txt) filled with numbers and I want to replace each one of those numbers with a new random number between 0 and 9. This is my script so far:
#!/bin/bash
rand=$(($RANDOM % 9))
sed -i s//$rand/g numbers.txtThe problem that I have is that it replaces each number with just... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am looking for any script which can do the following.
have to read a pattern from fileA and copy it to fileB.
fileA:
...
...
Header
...
...
..p1
...
...
fileB:
....
....
Header (3 Replies)
i need to replace the any special characters with escape characters like below.
test!=123-> test\!\=123
!@#$%^&*()-= to be replaced by
\!\@\#\$\%\^\&\*\(\)\-\= (8 Replies)
I have a file with 22 lines. Each line has only 5 different chars, no white space, and each line is 3,278,824 in length. The 5 chars is "-", "A", "B", "C", "D".
Below is an example of the first 25 chars of the first four lines of the file.
-----ABCDA--CD-BBBBB----D
--A--ABCD--DCD-BBBBC-----... (12 Replies)
I have input file like this
update tablename set column1='ABC',column2='BBC' where columnx=1 and columny=100 and columnz='10000001'
update tablename set column1='ABC',column2='BBC',column3='CBC' where columnx=1 and columny=100 and columnz='10000002'
update tablename set column1='ABC' where... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I want to extract the next 7 characters after I encounter the first ( in the code
eg
abc123=(xvn1342)
xyz678123=(ret8901)
I want to extract xvn1342,ret8901.
Please advise how to achieve this with awk, if possible? (9 Replies)
Im using the command below , but thats not the output that i want. it only prints the odd and even numbers.
awk '{if(NR%2){print $0 > "1"}else{print $0 > "2"}}'
Im hoping for something like this
file1:
Text hi this is just a test
text1 text2 text3 text4 text5 text6
Text hi... (2 Replies)
How to match a shell variable that contains parenthesis (and other special characters like "!")
file.txt contains:
Charles Dickens
Matthew Lewis (writer)
name="Matthew Lewis (writer)";
awk -v na="$name" ' $0 ~ na' file.txt
Ideally this would match $name in file.txt (in this... (3 Replies)
I would like to insert n number of characters at the beginning of each line that starts with a given character. If possible, I would be most appreciative for a sed or awk solution.
Given the data below, I would like to be able to insert either 125 spaces or 125 "-" at the beginning of every line... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: jvoot
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.16.3 2010-06-11 SHELL-QUOTE(1)