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Thanks Franklin,

It does work. But, doesn't AWK work in a similar way as SED i.e. it does refer the newline character to check for the end of the line?

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Hello,

Need help substituting a particular word in a file having a single line but no newline character at the end.

I was trying to use sed but it doesn't work probably because there is no...

Thanks a lot. It does help.

Please explain the usage of ampersand in the following command

who & echo "Total number of users are `who|wc -l`"


What I understand is that ampersand is used to run some process in the...

Does this help?



$ cat inputfile
2010 1 02
2010 2 01
2010 3 05

$ cat inputfile | sed -e 's/ /0/1;s/ //1'
20100102
20100201
20100305

fixpart="/etc/usr/transfer_script # transferring to a system"

The fixpart is a variable which is being assigned the value,

/etc/usr/transfer_script # transferring to a system

What the...

Hi,

Didn't understand the second part of the question i.e. to search from the beginning or end. Can you please demonstrate with an example?

Does the below code help?

#!/usr/bin/sh

echo...

Priyanka,

I tried this and it is working fine,

if test -e $1
then
echo "File Exist in the current directory"
fi
echo "Employee details born in 1990 or drawing a salary greater than...

Kartheek,
For your 3rd query, the output would be 5 as wc -c gives the no of bytes and it does include the new line character as well.

Also, if you have the same command for execution in the case...

Sushma,
If I understand correctly then, for your 2nd query you can simply do a tail -1 and then cut the field whose value you require,

e.g. to get the last row value in the first field,

tail...

I am still not very clear but I would try to answer whatever little I have understood.

You can use,
$ grep -c ^ a.txt # this will get you the no of lines or records in your file

you can...

Hello,

What do you mean my records? Do they mean line numbers?

Thanks,
Shantanu

Hi,
I tried by replacing the single quotes (') with a (`) and it did seem to be able to find the function but then it was having trouble executing the commands in the called function :eek:
...

Well, you can first add 20 spaces at the end of each line (assuming that all the lines are of fixed length of 280 chars each) and then use your sed command to add the text at the end of the line....

Yes, it will definitely work...

You could use something like this,


cat tst.csv | awk -F";" '{v1=$0;split(v1,names,";");for (idx=1;idx<NF+1;idx++) print idx, names[idx];}'

The input file is,
$ cat tst.csv
1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8...

Thanks all
Shantanu

Thanks Jsmithstl,
But, $ is used for variable subsitution. How is the use of $ in this expression related to that? Could you please explain more?

Thanks,
Shantanu

Hello,
Can someone please explain to me the following line,
[[ -z $(echo $c | tr -d "\015") ]] && break

I do not understand why two test square brackets are used.

Thanks,
Shantanu
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