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# 1  
Old 12-28-2009
about the modify lines
Hello,

I am trying to convert lines from text file, I got lines in text files like that

PHP Code:
ALPHA.cab
tomtom.cab
vgame.cab
converter.cab 
What i want to do is I want to conver these lines like that,


PHP Code:
cabwiz.exe   ALPHA.cab  extract  "C:\1extract\ALPHA"
cabwiz.exe   tomtom.cab  extract  "C:\1extract\tomtom"
cabwiz.exe   vgame.cab  extract  "C:\1extract\vgame"
cabwiz.exe   converter.cab  extract  "C:\1extract\converter" 
been trying for long with little knowledge, if anybody can fiind solution, that will be great.


Many thanks
# 2  
Old 12-28-2009
Enjoy the below SmilieSmilieSmilieSmilieSmilie :-

Code:
nawk '{ $1=$1 ; match($1,/\./) ;
printf "cabwiz.exe   %-15s extract \"C:\\1extract\\%s\"\n",$1,substr($1,1,RSTART-1) }
' infile.txt > outfile.txt

SmilieSmilie
# 3  
Old 12-28-2009
or

Code:
while read LINE; do echo "cabwiz.exe   $LINE  extract  \"C:\\1extract\\${LINE%.*}\""; done < file

# 4  
Old 12-28-2009
Another one:
Code:
awk '{
  split($0,a,".")
  printf("cabwiz.exe\t%s\textract\t\"C:\\1extract\\%s\"\n",$0,a[1])
}' file

# 5  
Old 12-28-2009
Many thanks for all reply all work great.
# 6  
Old 12-28-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by anchal_khare
or

Code:
while read LINE; do echo "cabwiz.exe   $LINE  extract  \"C:\\1extract\\${LINE%.*}\""; done < file

Code:
If you are looking for the faster code then choose anchal_khare code
 otherwise you can choose either Franklin52 or my code;
they are approximately taking the same time in execution.

BR
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