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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have a space delimited text file but I only want to change the first space to a tab and keep the rest of the spaces intact. How do I go about doing that? Thanks! (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: evelibertine
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi there,
I am with this one column input text file to change layout, please help. Thanks. I have awk, sed.
$ cat input
Median
1.0
2.3
3.0
Median
35.0
26.3
45.7
10.1
63.1
Median
1.2
2.3 (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: cwzkevin
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello, I have a situation where I want to change a line of text in multiple files, but the problem is that I want to change the text to something unique for each file.
For example, let's say I have five files named bob.txt, joe.txt, john.txt, tom.txt, and zach.txt. Each of these files has a... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Scatterbrain26
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4. Programming
I'm writing my own Unix ls command in c and I was wondering if anyone knows how to or can point me to a tutorial that shows me how to change the text color of the filename depending on if it's a directory, regular file, linked file, etc..., like the real ls command does? Thanks. (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: snag49ers
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I need a small help in formating a file.
I have a file with word like this;
ATGHYJIKOLFHJDHDGDYFGFYGRYGFYRHFYHFUED
DHDJFDFSJFLFJSKJFSLKJFGHDKLGLDKGLKDNVNV
VNLDVLDVDHFJDKDJVNVHSUFNHJFMVJFMVKJMFV
...
....
....like this 75000 words.
I want to convert this words into a single... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Lucky Ali
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a shell script to unload all the empname who have salary >50000 from the emp table into a text file(empname.txt) .
m_db unload "$dbc_file" -column_delimiter ',' -select "SELECT empname FROM emp where salary > 50000" >> empname.txt
Now my text file have data in the following format ... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: kavithakuttyk
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
i all,
I thought I would restructure my question.
Is there a way you can get rid of characters in a line if you know what number they are.
eg,
if this was a line
you could see there were 18 characters including spaces. Could I delete characters 4,5,6 and 7 to remove the word this. ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: outthere_3
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a text file with a bunch of ethernet port names and host names. I need to just change the last 2 chars on each line to a new number how can I do this quickly?
from
ethernet5/35 Net01
ethernet5/36 Net01
ethernet5/37 Net01
ethernet5/38 Net01
to
ethernet5/35 Net02
ethernet5/36... (4 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I want to write a shell script which increments a particular column in a row from a text file and then adds another row below the current row with the incremented value .
For Eg .
if the input file has a row :
abc xyz lmn 89 lm nk o p
I would like the script to create something like... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: aYankeeFan
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi everyone,
Having trouble with sed. I searched the board and found some stuff, but still unclear.
I have a file named "userfile" which stores the users info in this form: email:username:password:
I want the user to be able to change their password.
i tried with sed s/oldpass/newpass/g... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: primal
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