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Input files are double-quote fixed length de-limited files.
I have used double-quotes in this format "${FILENAME}".dat , as the filename with extension as such isn't stored in any variable. ...

This is just an example. Just want to mention the skeletel of the loop. Have huge number of line parsing conditions inside the loop .

And as for awk , the body of the loop contains many...

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I have a number of files having an average line count of 10,000 lines. I have to read each file line by line and output the parsed lines into one single output file. The combined size of all...

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I have a shell script, that has to run in putty for days together. So , I need to keep the network server connection alive and running. The execution of shell script shouldn't be interrupted...

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I have file with de-limited values in random order shown below, where C1V0 represents column1 value1,
C2V0 represents column2 value 2, and so on.
Column0 is a constant value...

Yes, I have FTPed the file. And I have used ASCII mode to transfer. I guess that is why the file got corrupted. After using the Binary command, it works fine.
Thanks Corona!!

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I have transfered a Zip file from Windows to Unix and tried to Unzip it in Unix using ksh. But it throws an error:


error [determined.zip]: missing 24 bytes in zipfile
(attempting to...

Thanks Methyl !! This works fine.

But I need a clarification. Before, I have used 'tr' in two different expresions similar to 'sed' in the below code and it didn't work.

a=`echo "$line" | cut...

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Can you please explain what is being done in the above three codes.
Thanks

This is an example of $lines:

111"987"2010-11-21 12:05:41.000"18"A"123"4"2010-11-21 12:06:05.000" xxxxxxxxxxx $62.99 ""
111"654"2010-11-21...

Hi Scrutinizer,

$-symbol might not always be the leading character. The string most of the time contains leading spaces.

And sorry I have just posted the code I was working on to test how it...

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I used this code to strip-off $-symbol from string values.


a="$980"
b="897"
a=`echo "$a" | sed 's/$/ /g'`
b=`echo "$b" | sed 's/$/ /g'`
echo "$a"
echo "$b"


but this...

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the text <<read>> and <<do not read>> are not part of the input file. That is why I highlighted with red.
The lines <read> are to be parsed to another output file.
<do not read> have to be...

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I have a huge de-limited file which has pattern :


99"9876"2010-11-21 12:51:01"J"MNOPQRS ID# 2-1234-1234-0099-9876-0 "" <<read>>
99"9876"2010-11-21 12:51:01"K"R-EMP# 01234567 ...

Hi Corona,

have done the same in my first printf statment, but it isn't working.shows the same error.

If a variable is blank, It gives an error < Specify a number instead of '~' >

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I am attempting to create a fixed length tilde delimited file using printf.
The variables are initialized to fixed length blank spaces

a=' '
b=' '
c='...

Thanks Scrutinizer for the fix. I was struggling a lot on this. It was really helpful. :D

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I need to extract text 'ULTIMATE and 4spaces after it' from below line

77"2686"2010-11-21 14:09:13.000"4"I"200"1"2010-11-21 14:09:14.000"001:S087110131 ULTIMATE 4.99 T""...

Thanks a lot!! It works fine.

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Actually the string value is obtained from another file.It can be either a postive number or a negative number in the form of a string.
If it is a psotive(547665.98) get a positive decimal...

I need code for converting a string to a negative decimal value.
For ex, i have the value in the form of a string (5489.95-) i need to convert it into decimal value (-5489.95) while getting output...

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this is regarding my post "ksh: how to extract strings from each line based on a condition" . Its not a home work or an assigment. I actually work in retail domain. The data I handle is very...

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I'm a newbie.Never worked on Unix before. I want a shell script to perform the following:
I want to extract strings from each line ,based on the type of line(Nameline,Subline) and output it to...