1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Is it possible to place a comma in the desired places, like 10spaces after or 15 spaces after, irrespective of the contents??? Ex:File: TEST TEST: vimalthomaswants to place a comma can he do it in the desired places? as per the above file, i need to place a comma after 10th space... (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I used following to add * at the end of the line in file1. It adds * at the end but has a space before it for some lines but some other lines it adds exactly after the last character. How do I take out the space ? sed 's/$/*/' file1 > file2 example: contents of file1 : ... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi friends, I am looking for a line to find a particular string in my file and once found then replace with 2-3 blank lines before the string Example: aaa 11 bbb 1 2 3 aaa 22 bbb 4 5 6 Output (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need to add "new lines" of text with special characters, to specific lines in the file. There are 3 modifications needed. Been testing 2 here without success. #!/usr/bin/perl use FileHandle; $file=FileHandle->new; $FILENAME="/opt/etc/usr/file.txt"; $file->open ("<$FILENAME") or die... (13 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Experts, I have called some.txt with the following content. oracle HYRDSRVIHUB01 pts/0 TESTIHUB 07-JUN-10 CREATE TABLE TESTIHUB PHONE ... (12 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need some help with adding lines to file and substitute a pattern. Ok I have a file: #cat names.txt name: John Doe stationed: 1 name: Michael Sweets stationed: 41 . . . And would like to change it to: name: John Doe employed permanently stationed: 1-office (7 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I lack the utter fundamentals on how to craft an awk script. I have hundreds of text files that were mangled by .doc format so all the lines are broken up so I need to join all of the lines of text into a single line. Normally I use vim command "ggVGJ" to join all lines but with so many... (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi everyone, I got a problem with merging files and hoped one of you would have an idea how to approach this issue. I tried it with awk, but didn't get far. This is what I have: I got 40 files looking like the ones below. All have three columns but the number of rows differs (20000 to 50000).... (6 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Input file data_1 data_2 A B C data_1 data_2 B D data_1 data_2 A C data_1 data_2 A data_1 data_2 B C data_1 data_2 C data_1 data_2 A B data_1 data_2 data_1 data_2 C B A . . Output file data_1 data_2 A B C data_1 data_2 - B D data_1 data_2 A - C (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Team, I would like to add two dummy columns at the end of the file. I know how to add the columns using awk . Here is my problem. we have bit strange delimiter when I od -bc it shows 244 as its binary value. 0002200 060 244 060 244 060 244 066 065 244 060 244 244 012 0... (1 Reply)