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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I need to correct href portion of the lines to edit out spaces from the line starting with position "<a href=" and ending at "target="
Below are 2 examples of extra space added by the server:
<td width=251 colspan=9 rowspan=22> <font size=2 face="courier"><tt><style>{font:7pt Courier ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: friedmi
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi Folks!
I hope you can help me figure this out. I need to print a record which contains the contents of a config file. The contents of the config file should be found within the 21st and the 30th position of the fixed width reference file.
Config File:
aaaa
bbbb
cccc
Reference... (3 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all..
I have a text file which looks like below:
abcd
efgh
ijkl
(blank space)
I need to remove only the last (blank space) from the file. When I try wc -l the file name,the number of lines coming is 3 only, however blank space is there in the file.
I have tried options like... (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: Sathya83aa
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file (test.dat) which contains data like this
459|199811047|a |b |shan
kar|ooty|
460|199811047|a |bv |gur
u|cbe|
but I need it like:
459|199811047|a |b |shankar|ooty|
460|199811047|a |b |guru|cbe|
While reading the data from this file, I don't want to remove newline from the end of... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: jcrshankar
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello all!
I'm trying to put together a small script that will take in a file name and attach a datestamp to the end of it (but before the file type extension).
To illustrate...
Before:
filename.txt
anotherfilename.txt
After:
filename_20090724.txt
anotherfilename_20090724.txt
... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: jisoo411
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm hoping that there is a way to do this. I'm sure I won't be able to get the answer I need on the deadline I need it...but at least I'll learn how to solve this problem.
I have a file that looks like this:
(00:14:25\$ head -27 QNHDSPACEDVR
Name: PollDhctAVFSInfo 00:0F:21:4B:00:6A
Name:... (2 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I want to write a script that takes a file and a string as params and adds the string to the middle line of the file. Also, I want to output the results back to the original file passed without using temp files.
I am very much new to UNIX so this is all a little like black magic to me at... (15 Replies)
Discussion started by: Chiefos
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
how to remove all tabs and newline (\n) from the exicting file (2 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to strip out certain characters from a string on both (left & right) sides. For example, line=see@hear|touch, i only want to echo the "hear" part. Well i have tried this approach:
line=see@hear|touch
templine=${line#*@} #removed "see@"
echo ${templine%%\|*} #removed... (4 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
i want to add a string in a very top of a file without using VI or SED or AWK
this is what ive done:
(echo '0a'; echo 'LINE OF TEXT'; echo '.'; echo 'wq') | ed -s myfile
to add astrng right in the middle i could have count the lines of the file and just chenge the address.
... (6 Replies)
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