nice to hear that you worked your way through and thanks for giving feedback.
Some comments:
Quote:
I was not aware that you could "backtrack" the tree and get the main info added to the product info.
That's why I pointed out XPath for you twice and presented you links for a good and short tutorial. Read the great manuals out there! Read it and you will be lesser dependant on others.
Quote:
cheated a bit as i got json data before the xml and i transformed it to the xml to actually get the proper data for it.
I would suggest to avoid that. With this step, the complexity of the task had risen for no good reason. I understand why you did it(just to get the task done - did that myself in the past), but I recommend to better invest the time to get the data out of the original format. That's most likely possible with jq - even if it needs the work to get familiar with jq. Otherwise you carry the increased complexity, increased error possibility, increased resource footprint with that task from now on.
An alternative to jq may be a small php script, that generates the csv
(...and sometimes a quick and dirty hack is just fine too)
That's the thing with jq:
Note: Those Pipes are part of the jq-filter - not shell pipes - carefully look at the quotes!
It's more like the approach that didn't work with xml. ;-)
Hi,
Can anyone tell the option to change the file type in unix.
i.e. if a file is in csv(Comma Separating Values) format, it should be changed to xls(ordinary MS-Excel) format. But renaming command is not changing to correct file format.
Thanks in advance,
Milton. (1 Reply)
I am trying to check each line and based on first two digits, the comma needs to be place. I checked in the earlier post where the text is converted to csv with a tab delimited.
Here is the test file that needs to be changed to csv
11 051701
22 051701
330123405170105170112345... (13 Replies)
I'm new to shell scripting and I have a file with positional columns. The rows look like this:
222 3333 44444 55 55 55 55 5555 59999
222 3333 44444 55 55 55 55 5555 59999
Not every row has the same number of spaces between the seven columns. They can range anywhere... (11 Replies)
Hello Friends,
I am new to UNIX shell scripting. Using bash....Could you please help me in converting a flat file into an XML style output file.
Flat file: (Input File entries looks like this)
John Miller: 617-569-7996:15 Bunting lane, staten Island, NY: 10/21/79: 60600
The... (4 Replies)
Hej All,
I have a file like this which is a comma dilimited:
input:
6000318,-263.011520678,-59.05869872409,587.67924868792
6000319,-265.6996842902,-50.24902479999,590.65693082607
6000320,-238.1333898366,-288.801232595,633.75332173496... (5 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I want to convert a XML file to flat file.
Sample I/p:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<DataFile xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' contactCount='4999' date='2012-04-14' time='22:00:14' xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation='gen
.xsd'>
<Contact... (3 Replies)
I have a table as following
Archive id Line Author Time Text
1fjj34 3 75jk5l 03:20 this is an evidence regarding ...
1fjj34 4 gjhhtrd 03:21 we have seen those documents before
1fjj34 10 645jmdvvb 04:00 Will you consider such an offer?... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I have a xml script, I converted it to .txt with values comma seperated using awk function. But I want the output values should be inside double quotes
My xml script (Workorders.xml) is shown like below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<scbm-extract version="3.3">... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Viswanatheee55
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)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 v5.8.4 2005-05-03 SHELL-QUOTE(1p)