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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a Zsh script which invokes another program. One of the paramters to be passed, should be a literal tab, i.e what in common programming languages is often written as "\t".
If it were bash, I think I could use the special form
$"\t"
but this doesn't seem to work (the called program... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: rovf
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello.
I am using :
sed -i -e '/§name_script§/a#'"${MY_TAB11}"'# \
#'"${MY_TAB1}"'The Standard way'"${MY_TAB7}"'# \
#'"${MY_TAB1}"'==============='"${MY_TAB7}"'# \ ' "$CUR_FILE"
Is there a better way to define "MY_TAB7","MY_TAB11" in other way than :
MY_TAB1=$'\t'
MY_TAB2=${MY_TAB1}$'\t'... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: jcdole
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am trying to remove the tab character from a file, which occurs on two places in every line. So far I have tried the following and most are from threads in this forum:
sed -i '' -e 's/ / /' file.dat
sed -i '' -e 's/*/ /' file.dat
sed -i '' -e 's/\t*/ /g' file.dat
sed -i '' -e 's/*//g'... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: figaro
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I would like to display the last 8 characters of the filenames for filenames of different lengths.
I can delete the last 8 characters with sed but dont know how to only show the last 8 characters.
The filenames are something like;
afxH340800340000
afxH30800340021
afxR3080034002122
I... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Beanz
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I would like to remove characters from column 7 so that from an input file looking like this:
>HWI-EAS422_12:4:1:69:89 GGTTTAAATATTGCACAAAAGGTATAGAGCGT U0 1 0 0 ref_chr8.fa 6527777 F DD
I get something like that in an output file:
... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: matlavmac
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am having trouble using the result of the following awk command in a script, as displaying the contents of the placeholder automatically replaces the new created TAB by a space character again:
From the prompt:
cscyabl@comet:(develop)> echo "01 12" | awk '{gsub(" ","\t");print}'
01 ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Indalecio
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi everybody,
I'm using Hp unix tru64.
I have generate one file from shell script.
bus that file content pre "8 space char" convert one tab character.
why?
result file hex format:
hex 20 20 20 20 20 to 09 (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Tlg13team
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8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
no problem (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: angelina
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
im having trouble doing this:
i have a variable with 2 characters repeating e.g. aababbbaaaababaabbaabbba
is there a way i can search the variable for a's and b's and then change a's to b's and b's to a's?
im guessing its like getting the 1's compliment of the string
im doing this in... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: vipervenom25
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi all,
if i do an:
"echo $string |" what should be after the pipe to display ONLY the last char of the output?
tia,
DN2 (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: DukeNuke2
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