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hey raom,

thanks for introducing 'paste'. its new for me.

regards
prajit

the following code will insert content at every 5th line.
awk ' {if ((NR%5)==0) print "line to be printed\n" $0; else print $0;}' < data > out where data is the file which holds the data
and output...

notice that 2 slashes before 'n'

its sed s/,/\\n/g file1
NOT sed s/,/\n/g file1

sed s/,/\\n/g file1

the following code will give u the first row (ie a,e,i,m)


gawk -F ',' 'BEGIN {col=""}{ col=col $1 "," ; }END {print substr ( col,1,length ( col ) -1 ) }' file1


change '$1' as '$2' to get...

BEGIN {lastString="";}
{ curStr=$0;
if (substr(curStr,1,1)=="*") {
len = length(lastString);
print substr(lastString,1,len) substr(curStr,2);
}else{
print substr(curStr,1)
}...

just concat with some other character just before splitting.


$string = "name:blk:house::";
@res = split(/[:]/,$string.".");
print "size of array : $#res";

there is a file /etc/passwd.
locate the row having ur user id in this file.
in that row, the 7th entry curresponds to your default shell.
change it to to the desired shell.
(provided you have...