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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have the following file I wanted to convert mutiple spaces to tab:
I tried cat filename | tr ' ' '\t' or sed 's/ */ /' FILE
but it looses the format
5557263102 5557263102 5552074858 5726310211 5557263102 5557263102
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file which contains the data lines like below.I want to remove the tab spaces at the end of each line.I have tried with the command sed 's/\+$//' file.but it does not work.Can anyone help me on this?
15022 15022 15022 15022 15022 15022
15023 15023 15023 15023 15023 ... (16 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear fellows, I need your help.
I'm trying to write a script to convert a single column into multiple rows.
But it need to recognize the beginning of the string and set it to its specific Column number.
Each Line (loop) begins with digit (RANGE).
At this moment it's kind of working, but it... (6 Replies)
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
my content:
samaccountname employeeid useraccountcontrol description
i want it to look like this:
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
I am trying to remove all tabspaces and all blankspaces from my file using sed & awk, but not getting proper code. Please help me out.
My file is like this (<b> means one blank space, <t> means one tab space)-
$ cat file
NARESH<b><b><b>KUMAR<t><t>PRADHAN... (3 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm new to shell scripting and I have a file with positional columns. The rows look like this:
222 3333 44444 55 55 55 55 5555 59999
222 3333 44444 55 55 55 55 5555 59999
Not every row has the same number of spaces between the seven columns. They can range anywhere... (11 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I want to set my tab lenght to 4 spaces instead of 8.
And when i press tab instead of inserting tab it should insert 4 spaces.
if i do
set ts=4
this set tab=4. But this inserts tab.
Say suppose i copy the code from unix to texpad/wordpad.Textpad will interpret tab as 8 spaces.(I can set... (4 Replies)
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Anyone know how to represent tabs when doing subsitutions in sed? I have tried using \t but it doesn't seem to work. (11 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Folks, I am wondering if anyone solve this problem.
What I want to know is,
1. Delete all white spaces including leading blank space in each line (e.g. line 2), and replace such spaces by single tab except leading blank space
2. Then, align all columns to the right. But, output white space... (1 Reply)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi!
I'm using SunOS 5.7 w/ Bash 2.01.
Currently, I'm working on a script that will make it possible to find textfiles which match certain criteria. While I write this message, I had some brainfarts, found the answer myself :D and the question I had in mind is now no longer the question I... (3 Replies)
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