Help with replacing characters without moving the spaces.
Could you please advise what is the best way to edit a file without disrupting the spaces?
For example: I have within my file the value below, wherein I wanted to change VALUE2 to VALUETEST.
The total characters on the field of VALUE2 is 15 characters.
Code:
VALUE1|VALUE2<9 spaces>|VALUE3
but when I'm trying to use the command below. It keeps on adding new spaces that exceeds 15 characters.
hi,
I have some 50 C files in which for indentation of code some devlopers used tabs, but we dont want any tab used for indentation.
I have following 2 need.
1) find tabs from all 50 files (which are in one directory )
2) replace them with 4 spaces.
Thanks
Rishi (6 Replies)
hi all
this is the part i am facing a problem
eg data: filename : tr1
+ T 40
this is a sample record in that file ... the value of T can be anything, but will be a single character.
i need to cut from field two, and i am using this command
cut -d " " -f2 tr1 >tr3
and the o/p is ... (7 Replies)
Hi,
i have a tab dilimeted file.The records are :header is having column names.I am facing the following issue :
I want to convert the spaces only for header file into "_" in the unix shell but the problem is that if i use sed command all the blank spaces are getting replaced by "_".
For... (3 Replies)
I want to ftp all the sh files in the directory. Also if any of the file name
contains spaces in them, it should be converted to underscores before it is ftped. I wrote the following code below:
FILESSH=$(ls /mysh/*.sh)
--- FILESH being used here for some other task ---
echo "$FILESSH" |... (3 Replies)
Hello,
When I run following script
#!/bin/bash
cd ~/directory1
mv `ls -trF | grep -v / | tail -10 ` ~/directory2
works fine with filenames not having any space but runs into issues with filenames that have spaces tried with $file variable still doesnot work. Can someone help me (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file origFile.txt with values:
origFile.txt
.00~ 145416.02~ xyz~ ram kishor ~? ~ ~783.9
.35~ 765.76~ anh reid~ kelly woodburg ~nancy ~ ~?
Now each row in the file has value for 7 columns with "~" as delimiter.
The requirement was
i)I need to erase the blank spaces between... (2 Replies)
Hi Experts,
We are facing some while loading the "csv" file to target table.Some of the records are having values as :
Account number,Name,Address
"123","XYZ","302 Street,Washington,US"
"456","PQR"," 3233 Some Street,
Washington,US"
In the above file instead reading only two records it... (11 Replies)
I want my program to replace tabs with spaces.1tab=4spaces.When i write aa(tab)aaa(tab)(tab)a(tab) it must show me aaxxaaaxxxxxaxxx. I think that my program works corectly but when a write aaa(tab)a it must show aaaxa but it is aaaxxxxxa.Please for help!!! That is my code:
#include <stdio.h>
... (3 Replies)
I have a script that I've written and it's been running fine until someone dropped a file in the source directory that had spaces in it. The script breaks the file name into separate mv commands. I've tried putting " around the $FILE but that didn't help. Anyone who can help me would be greatly... (8 Replies)
sed -e "s// /g" old.txt > new.txt
While I do know some control characters need to be escaped, can normal characters also be escaped and still work the same way? Basically I do not know all control characters that have a special meaning, for example, ?, ., % have a meaning and have to be escaped... (11 Replies)
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sdiff
sdiff(1) General Commands Manual sdiff(1)NAME
sdiff - Compares two files and displays the differences in a side-by-side format
SYNOPSIS
sdiff [-l | -s] [-w number] [-o output_file] file1 file2
The sdiff command reads file1 and file2, uses diff to compare them, and writes the results to standard output in a side-by-side format.
OPTIONS
Displays only the left side when lines are identical. Creates a third file, output_file, by a controlled interactive line-by-line merging
of file1 and file2. The following subcommands govern the creation of this file: Adds the left side to output_file. Adds the right side to
output_file. Stops displaying identical lines. Begins displaying identical lines. Enters ed with the left side, the right side, both
sides, or an empty file, respectively.
Each time you exit from ed, sdiff writes the resulting edited file to the end of output_file. If you fail to save the changes
before exiting, sdiff writes the initial input to output_file. Exits the interactive session. Suppresses display of identical
lines. Sets the width of the output line to number (130 characters by default).
DESCRIPTION
The sdiff command displays each line of the two files with a series of spaces between them if the lines are identical, a < (left angle
bracket) in the field of spaces if the line only exists in file1, a > (right angle bracket) if the line only exists in file2, and a | (ver-
tical bar) for lines that are different.
When you specify the -o option, sdiff produces a third file by merging file1 and file2 according to your instructions.
Note that the sdiff command invokes the diff -b command to compare two input files. The -b option causes the diff command to ignore trail-
ing spaces, tab characters, and consider other strings of spaces as equal.
EXAMPLES
To print a comparison of two files, enter: sdiff chap1.bak chap1
This displays a side-by-side listing that compares each line of chap1.bak and chap1. To display only the lines that differ, enter:
sdiff -s-w 80 chap1.bak chap1
This displays the differences at the tty. The -w 80 sets page width to 80 columns. The -s option tells sdiff not to display lines
that are identical in both files. To selectively combine parts of two files, enter: sdiff -s-w 80 -o chap1.combo chap1.bak
chap1
This combines chap1.bak and chap1 into a new file called chap1.combo. For each group of differing lines, sdiff asks you which group
to keep or whether you want to edit them using ed.
SEE ALSO
Commands: diff(1), ed(1)sdiff(1)