Dear friends,
I'm a novice Unix user and I'm trying to learn the ropes. I have a big task I have to accomplish and I'm convinced Unix can get the job done, I just haven't figured out how. I recently posted on the topic of cutting text between unique text patterns and somebody helped me a great... (24 Replies)
Hi,
i have a line with several fields (indefinite number of - count varies) separated by colon.
Now, i need to pick each field (except the first one) and have it assigned to variable within a loop. In other words, in the first iteration of the loop, the variable must be assigned with 2nd... (2 Replies)
Greetings,
I would like to extract records from a fixed width text file that have unique field elements.
Data is structured like this:
John A Smith NY
Mary C Jones WA
Adam J Clark PA
Mary Jones WA
Fieldname / start-end position
Firstname 1-10... (8 Replies)
I need some assistance, I am writing a script in bash.
I want to do two things:
1/. I want to replace the LF at the end of the RFH Ø ¸MQSTR ¸ so I can process the file record by record using a while loop.
2/. I want to extract two fields from each record, they are identified with... (1 Reply)
I am need to extract a number of values from a file, put have now clue how to do this.
The file looks like this:
# My file
Dest=87;CompatibleSystemSoftwareVersion=2.5300-;
Dest=87;ImageVersion=000061f3;SystemSoftwareVersion=2.5300;CDN=http://my.backup.com/download.txt;CDN_Timeout=30;
I... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I need to extract last character of the field retrieved from the database using select command.
eg:
select event,text from event_data;
o/p: Event1,text1
But I need to extract only '1' from the fields...similarly '2' from Event2,text2 and '3' from Event3,text3 etc., and need to pass... (6 Replies)
I have an input file with contents like:
203969 OrdAcctCycChg USAGE_DAEMON1
203970 OrdAcctCycChg USAGE_DAEMON2
203971 OrdAcctCycChg USAGE_DAEMON3
203972 OrdAcctCycChg USAGE_DAEMON4
I need to extract variables in first column... (51 Replies)
Hi All,
I am writing the following Perl Scrip and need your help in Pattern matching :
I have the following Shell Script that would read line by line from the file (file_svn) and would inturn calls the Perl Script:
#!/bin/bash
perl_path="/home/dev/filter"... (2 Replies)
I have one file A.txt which is comma separated and I want to extract first 4 field's in a file and also I want to add one more column in output
A.txt in output for all records. A.txt should not be hard coded since I do not filename it may be any file. (1 Reply)
Hello All,
I have a requirement to split the input.xml file different files and i have tried using earlier examples(where i have posted in the forum), but still no luck
Here is my input.xml
<jms-system-resource>
<name>UMSJMSSystemResource</name>
... (4 Replies)
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read
read(1) General Commands Manual read(1)NAME
read - read a line from standard input
SYNOPSIS
var ...
DESCRIPTION
reads a single line from standard input. The line is split into fields as when processed by the shell (refer to shells in the first field
is assigned to the first variable var, the second field to the second variable var, and so forth. If there are more fields than there are
specified var operands, the remaining fields and their intervening separators are assigned to the last var. If there are more vars than
fields, the remaining vars are set to empty strings.
The setting of variables specified by the var operands affect the current shell execution environment.
Standard input to can be redirected from a text file.
Since affects the current shell execution environment, it is usually provided as a normal shell special (built-in) command. Thus, if it is
called in a subshell or separate utility execution environment similar to the following, it does not affect the shell variables in the
caller's environment:
Options
recognizes the following options:
Do not treat a backslash character in any special way.
Consider each backslash to be part of the input line.
Opperands
recognizes the following operands:
var The name of an existing or nonexisting shell variable.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
determines the internal field separators used to delimit fields.
RETURN VALUE
exits with one of the following values:
0 Successful completion.
>0 End-of-file was detected or an error occurred.
EXAMPLES
Print a file with the first field of each line moved to the end of the line.
while read -r xx yy
do
printf "%s %s
" "$yy" "$xx"
done < input_file
SEE ALSO csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1), sh-posix(1).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE read(1)