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Thank you, it works but do you mind explaining what are you doing. It would be helpful to understand. the code.

This might work but consider this 7789 (item number) will not repeat again in entire file but store number (7345) will definitely occur again in file for other item number. In your solution we are...

I have edited question with expected output.

The shell is Bash.

Sorry for not being clear, let me explain this data format/requirement. Records that starts with XYZ contains item number...

XYZNA0000778800Z
16123000012300321000000008000000000000000
16124000012300322000000007000000000000000
17234000012300323000000005000000000000000
17345000012300324000000004000000000000000...

Wonderful !!! Thanks for examples.

What is the difference in these two awk command? Both returns same output but I am not sure what is the use of +0 in command 1.



awk -F "," '{print $1+0,$2+0,$3+0}'

awk -F "," '{print $1,...

All of these commands worked like charm

cut -b3- file1 > file2
LC_ALL=c awk '{print subset($0, 3)}' file1 > file2
LC_ALL=C sed 's/^..//' file1 > file2

Thank you so much "Don Cragun" and...

Most of it went over my head only thing I understood that awk is not recognizing as a text file and so it isn't working. Ok so I tried and set the variable . After that command was still showing ...

Here is the output from

head -n3 file1 | tee file1.1-3 | awk '{print substr($0,3)}' | tee file2.1-3 | od -bc;

0000000 012 012 012
\n \n \n
0000003


Output of

locale
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I used this awk command from #19 which created file2 with blank lines

awk '{print substr($0,3)}' file1 > file2


On resulted file2 I ran your command

head -n1 file2 | od -bc


which...

I already did that before see previous replies.

Here is the output of head command.


0000000 347 003 062 060 061 066 060 061 060 063 061 066 063 070 061 065
347 003 2 0 1 6 0 1 0 3 1 6 3 8 1 5
0000020 104...

The one I posted was from the system that return blank lines and trust me it's same file copied from the system where it works and your cat -vet command shows same first 3 junk characters in both...

There is no bad file, it's identical file on both system.

Thanks for your explanation but we have tried this already and it doesn't work either. It still generates blank file2.

This doesn't work
awk -F"^..." '{print $2}' file > file2

It generates blank file2

I don't understand what you mean by "above doesn't do anything that [code] wouldn't do". PLease explain.

awk version works: GNU Awk 3.1.3
awk version doesn't work: GNU Awk 3.1.7

Yes input...

Following one line of awk code removes first 3 characters from each line but when I run the same code on another linux platform it doesn't work and only prints blank lines for each record. Can anyone...

Can Someone please explain why BEGIN and END statement is used inside function? How does that help in scripting?


function fileformatting
{
CleanupMask="xXxX"

sed 's/^.//' < ${AllFile} >...

Sorry I am new to this forum, will use code tag going forward. Thanks for your reply!

Can anyone please explain what this code is doing for first 6 lines? I believe this is array but I couldn't understand what exactly it is doing.


set -A Dis_array 95
typeset -L2 distribution...

I have a shell script which has this while loop line
"while read tblName xx; do..."
I understand how while loop works but don't know what does this xx stands for?

I have a file which has first 2 junk characters(X^C) at beginning of each line in file. When i run cut -c 2- filename it removes junk characters from all lines except on first line it keeps one junk...