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Thanks vgersh99 that works very well

thank you

vrms:b:

OK I cant show a complete file (They are big!)

So this is a section of one of the text files

-99999 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999 -99999...

I have some ASCII files containing numerous numbers. What I'd like to do is replace all numbers greater than 0 with 1.

Examples of the numbers include: - 000011 and 000042

Thanks

Firstly thanks to everyone who posted on this thread.
I've finally got it working correctly!!

The code I used is as follows:

for file in $(ls -1)
do
newfile="$(echo $file | sed...

When I do the above on directory containing :

daf_2001-03_act.txt
daf_2001-04_act.txt

The content of the files are put on the screen as before.
When I do an ls I get the following files ...

When I run it sends the whole content of the files in the directory to the screen



[QUOTE]If the output is correct you can pipe the output of the sed command to sh to mv the files in the loop...

I'm afraid that hasn't had the desired effect rana_d

But thanks for the suggestion

vrms

Hi guys the above script looks perfect (even to my untrained eye)

and the previous one

$ echo "daf_1961-04_act.txt"|sed 's/\(.*_\)\(.*\)-\(.*\)\(_.*\)/\1\3-\2\4/'
$ daf_04-1961_act.txt
...

Thanks guys this is great stuff!!

However, this might be me being very dumb, but is there a way of 'saving' this new file name to the original. And could this then be automated to do more than...

Thanks Nua7

What about rearranging the sequence of the file title = swapping the month and the year around. I was more concerned if that was possible.

I've got a multitude of text data files that carry exactly the same kind of data. Unfortunately some of them have a different filename format

some are: 'category'_'month'-'year'_act.txt

an...

oops sorry

era I mean

cheers

worked a charm

Thanks esa

cheers

Thanks for the Reply Jim

Unfortunately this sends them all into one big tmp.file. I need to create a new text file for every single text file that is in the directory.

I have a directory full of text data files.

Unfortunately I need to get rid of the 7th and 8th line from them all so that I can input them into a GIS application.

I've used an awk script to do...

I have a directory full of text data files.

Unfortunately I need to get rid of the 7th and 8th line from them all so that I can input them into a GIS application.

I've used an awk script to do...