Hi!
I'm using SunOS 5.7 w/ Bash 2.01.
Currently, I'm working on a script that will make it possible to find textfiles which match certain criteria. While I write this message, I had some brainfarts, found the answer myself :D and the question I had in mind is now no longer the question I... (3 Replies)
When formatting a script let's say for instance the following:
case ${choice} in
1)
vi ${tmp1}.tmp
# overwrite the tmp1 var with any user changes
cp ${tmp1}.tmp ${tmp1}
;;
... (2 Replies)
hi,
I have a file that is space separated at all columns. Basically what I want to do is replace all the space separations with column separations.
Thanks
kylle (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I am facing issues converting white spaces and tabs together in a file I am reading. Here is the command I am trying:
tr -s ' '@ | sort -t@ +1n filename
I guess the problem is that it is not converting the tabs to another delimiter. Also, I am supposed to accomplish this only using... (5 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)
hi buddies;
i have a file.txt:
Note: All the seperators are SPACE.
192.168.1.1
ParameterObject=1 Speech 1
ParameterObject=2 Speech 1
192.168.1.1
ParamFunction=1 UserID 1 (DEACTIVATED)
Sector=1,Device=2,Unit=3 DeviceId 1
192.168.1.1
FeederCable=2B ... (18 Replies)
Hi,
I'm looking for a command that replaces spaces/tabs with pipe symbol and store the result to the same file instead of routing it to another file.
infile
outfile
Thanks. (11 Replies)
I want to remove extra spaces from variable in aix script.
We retrieve the data from oracle database and then print the values. We have a value on 90th position.
When we execute the query on sqlplus it shows the length of 90th position as 3, but when we use the same query in aix script it shows... (5 Replies)
I'm having trouble getting my vimrc to work the way I want it. For some reason after I hit enter it is creating tabs instead of spaces like I would expect. Here is an example of what I am talking about. $ = newline, ^I = tab. On the line of struct EDGETAG* q; I hit enter and it created a tab... (2 Replies)
so i have a data file that has various lines which may or may not end with spaces or tabs.
data.file:
, \t \t
{sample} <spaces> <spaaces> several more spaces....
{"resemble"}, <nospaces>
Command i'm using:
sed -n 8p data.file | egrep "\],$|\],\ $"
or
egrep "\],$|\],\ $"... (1 Reply)
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EXPAND(1) BSD General Commands Manual EXPAND(1)NAME
expand, unexpand -- expand tabs to spaces, and vice versa
SYNOPSIS
expand [-t tab1,tab2,...,tabn] [file ...]
unexpand [-a | -t tab1,tab2,...,tabn] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The expand utility processes the named files or the standard input writing the standard output with tabs changed into blanks. Backspace
characters are preserved into the output and decrement the column count for tab calculations. The expand utility is useful for pre-process-
ing character files (before sorting, looking at specific columns, etc.) that contain tabs.
The unexpand utility puts tabs back into the data from the standard input or the named files and writes the result on the standard output.
The following options are available:
-a (unexpand only.) By default, only leading blanks and tabs are reconverted to maximal strings of tabs. If the -a option is given,
then tabs are inserted whenever they would compress the resultant file by replacing two or more characters.
-t tab1,tab2,...,tabn
Set tab stops at column positions tab1, tab2, ..., tabn. If only a single number is given, tab stops are set that number of column
positions apart instead of the default number of 8.
ENVIRONMENT
The LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of expand and unexpand as described in environ(7).
EXIT STATUS
The expand and unexpand utilities exit 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
STANDARDS
The expand and unexpand utilities conform to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').
HISTORY
The expand command appeared in 3.0BSD.
BSD October 13, 2006 BSD