sorry,
Here is the sample:
1089 KEVIN_RIDDLE
1137 STEPHEN_SMITH
1214 MELISA_someone
1267 SANDY_name
Here is the file I am looking for:
( I don't know why I post it the "0000 00" is not lined up but they should be)
Because length of people's names are different, the space between the "0000 0" and name is different. But I 'd like "0000 00" in different rows to line up.
Maybe position 37 .
Hi,
I have a EDI data file ARROWTEST of size 18246 characters. And I want to insert some data after 4200 position in the file. How I can find the position 4200 in that file....Please advise.
Regards, (5 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a flat file with ~ as de-limiter (e.g: aaa~ba a~caa~0~d~e)
What I want is check if the 4th character is 0 and replace it with say 4. So now it becomes : aaa~ba a~caa~4~d~e.
I have to do this for the whole file, but the delimiter position remains the same, not the... (10 Replies)
Hello,
It has been a long time since I have written unix code and I need to insert a variable into the first position of each line in a file. Below is an example of the script and the desired output file
Here is my short script
server="$(hostname)"
df -kg | awk '{print $1, $2, $3, $4,... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I need to add Pipe (|) at 5th and 18th position of all records a file. How can I do this?
I tried to add it at 5th position using the below code. It didnt work. Please help!!!
awk '{substr($0,5,1) ~ /|/}{print}' $input_file > $temp_file (1 Reply)
I want to insert space in 7th position of all the lines usign vi editor or sed command
Input file
12345689010
abcdefghijk
.
.
Output file
123456 89010
abcdef ghijk
.
. (7 Replies)
I have a DNA file like below and I am able to write a short program which finds/not an input motif, but I dont understand how I can include in the code to report which position the motif was found. Example I want to find the first or all "GAT" motifs and want the program to report which position... (12 Replies)
Hi ,
I have a file which has line similar to below
13123324234234234234234234234234234
3454546456dfhgfhgh454645654asdasfsdsddfgdgdfg
345345345mnmnbmnb346mnb4565464564564645645
Not for each line for specific position I need to insert some '|'
Positions are fixed. Like 3,5,9,11
So the... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
how to insert a '#' in the first position of all the files based on a certain condition.
I tried this:
cat /bin/user/input_file.txt | while read a
do
b=`sed 's/.*song=good.*/\#&/g' $a `
echo $b > /bin/user/new/output_file.txt
done
input_file.txt has list of names of 10... (5 Replies)
Thanks to help from Don Cragun in post 302924174, I'm off and getting into trouble on my own (finally) with sed.
Here is my goal - insert \\r\n at the 60th character on each line and then every 76th character thereafter:
Input:... (3 Replies)
I am using bash in Fedora 30
From the below lines (ls -l output), how can I print whatever is between the strings 'status_' and '.log'
$ ls -l | grep -i status
-rw-rw-r--. 1 sysadmin sysadmin 378530 Nov 11 21:58 status_vsbm1.log
-rw-rw-r--. 1 sysadmin sysadmin 428776 Nov 11 21:58... (8 Replies)