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Hi Anbu,

your solution works fine ...
but could you pls explain how this line works ?

printf("%s%s",$k,k == n ? "" : "|")


Thnx

The code needs to be modified in follg case as well if the character is already double quoted then it should be left as it is

i/p string
"123"||||"abc"||""678""||||"abc|"|2

o/p reqd...

Hi,

I have a requirement in which all double quotes around strings have to be removed except for those having pipe as delimiter in between strings

for eg

i/p string ...

No Guys ,

I was talking about some utility like we had PCTOOLS in DOS or something like that
Taking backups and snapshots are all fine but what if someone does delete something ...

shouldn't...

Hi

Is there any way to restore files accidentally deleted in Unix
(other than rm -i)

Now how do i capture all lines till EOF?

Hi,

How do i get line number of a variable which contains entire line
and then capture all lines till EOF ?

For eg .

Variable vr will contain the string "this is a string"

I need to get...

I got the solution now ...

systemdate=`date '+%m-%d-%Y'`
awk -v date=$systemdate '$0 ~ /start/ && $0 ~ date {print $0}' file

No Kumar ,this solution does not work ... it gives the o/p even if the date in the line is not sysdate

The requirement is only to give o/p when the date in the line is systemdate
not any date

Replace start with header

Sample input


start uiyuyuiyyuiy 11-15-2006 gdterefeyeyeuue
jhjkhj
jkhjkjk
stop

Hi Kumar,

the date portion will be system date always so it should not take any other date than this

Hi,

I have a text file in which I have to search for 2 keywords simultaneously
one of them will be a constant eg . HEADER and the other will be the system date in MM-DD-YYYY format how do i do...

In all the responses it has been assumed that the position 5-10 will be the last portion in the file
however the line length may be upto 80 chars
whereas the search should be only for 5-10 position

Hi,

If, in a text file a string is expected at a certain fixed position(for eg at position 5 or from 5-10 on every line)
how to check whether data is present on that position or not?


Thnx in...

Can this awk statement be modified if the 2 keywords can be preceded by blank spaces before them ?

the keywords START and END
are not the only words in the line so the code fails

START .........................
.....
.....
.....
......
END ............................

I only know that...

Hi,

I have to always select last portion of a block identified by 2 fixed keywords
which repeats in a file for eg

START
....
...
END


START
....
...
END

START
.......

as i mentioned the date given was just an example
It will be any date in general; so cannot hardcode

Hi Mona

The date which i gave was just for example
it may be any date in general so i cannot hardcode; all i know is the format will be the same

Hi,

I have a file where there is a date field (single line variable length file)

how to extract just the date portion from it

the position of date field may vary anywhere in the line
but...

Hi

Will this work from command prompt by just giving input and o/p file names ?

I want to capture contents of a file between 2 strings into another file

for eg all lines in between the keywords "start log" and "end log" should be copied into another file

I want to capture contents of a file between 2 strings into another file

for eg all lines in between the keywords "start log" and "end log" should be copied into another file

Hi,

is there any way Unix shell script can directly read a mail on a mail server
(Lotus notes) and save it as a text file in a unix directory ?

For eg mail can be at abc@xyz.com and the same...