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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Dear all,
I want to extract around 300 columns from a very large file with almost 2million columns. There are no headers, but I can find out which column numbers I want. I know I can extract with the function 'cut -f2' for example just the second column but how do I do this for such a large... (1 Reply)
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi everyone. I have a file with ~500 columns and I would like to perform a simple calculation on every two columns. The file looks like this:
$cat input
id A B C D E F.....X
1 2 4 2 3 4 1 n
2 4 6 4 6 4 5 n
3 4 7 5 2 2 3 n
4 ... (5 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Friends,
I have come across some files where some of the columns don not have data.
Key, Data1,Data2,Data3,Data4,Data5
A,5,6,,10,,
A,3,4,,3,,
B,1,,4,5,,
B,2,,3,4,,
If we see the above data on Data5 column do not have any row got filled. So remove only that column(Here Data5) and... (4 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, I have a large file with number of records in there. I need some help to find only first row based on a key and ignore other rows with the same key. I tried few things but file is huge(30 million rows). So need some solution that is very efficient.
e.g
Junk|Apple|7|Random|data|here...... (2 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I have a huge tab delimited file with around 40,000 columns and 900 rows I want to convert columns to a row.
INPUT file look like this.
the first line is a headed of a file.
ID marker1 marker2 marker3 marker4
b1 A G A C ... (5 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have a data file that contains 61 columns. I want to delete all the columns except columns, 3,6 and 8. The columns are tab de-limited. How would I achieve this on the terminal?
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys,
I need help in modifying a large text file containing more than 1-2 lakh rows of data using unix commands. I am quite new to the unix language
the text file contains data in a pipe delimited format
sdfsdfs
sdfsdfsd
START_ROW
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi I have an input file and I want to transpose it but I need to take care that if any field is missing for a record it should be popoulated with space for that field - using a shell script
INFILE
----------
emp=1
sal=2
loc=abc
emp=2
sal=21
sal=22
loc=xyz
emp=5
loc=abc
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Friends,
I have text file with 700,000 rows.
Once I load this file to our database via our cutom process, it logs the row number for rejected rows.
How do I delete rows from a Large text file based on the Row Number?
Thanks,
Prashant (8 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a small requirement in chainging the rows to columns. The below example.txt contains info as shown
Name:Person1
Age:30
Name:Person2
Age:40
Name:Person3
Age:50
I want to make it displayed as hown below
Name:Person1 Age:30
Name:person2 Age:40
Name:Person3 Age:50
I... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: oracle123
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