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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have the following a.txt file
A|1|2|3|4|5|
A||2|3|0||
A|1|6||8|10|
A|9|2|3|4|1|
A|0|9|3|4|5|
A||2|3|4|5|
A|0|av|.9|4|9|
I use the following command to count null values for 2nd field
awk -F"|" '!$2 { N++; next } END {print N}' a.txt
It should give the result 2, but it is giving... (2 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
The below code runs and creates an output file with three sections. The first 2 sections are ok, but the third section doesn't seem to put a . in all the fields that are blank. I don't know if this is what causes the last two fields in the current output to shift to a newline, but I can not seem... (3 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Folks,
We have a file that has null values but there are no delimiters. So all columns are considered as a single column.
Ex:
abc def 123
abcdef1234567
hijklmn7896545
Now from "a" till "3" all are considered as a single column from the first row.
Our requirement is like, we... (2 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I've a pipe delimited file and wanted to replace the 3rd field to 099990 where the values are null. How can I achieve it using awk or sed.
20130516|00000061|02210|111554|03710|2|205069|SM APPL $80-100 RTL|S
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All ,
below is my shell program.
!/bin/sh
set -x
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Program : weekly_remove_icd_file.sh
# Author :
# Date : 04/06/2013
# Purpose : Execute the script to... (3 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am trying to find the lines in a pipe delimited file where 11th column has not null values. Any help is appreciated. Need help asap please.
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Friends
I am new to sed programming , i found that the below code can search for the $ToSearch and Replace it with $ToReplace ( $ToSearch and $ToReplace are my variables in my script )
sed "s/$ToSearch/$ToReplace/" $file > $output
mv $output $file
In testing the script i found that... (3 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi
I tried to empty an existing file (bring the size of the file down to 0). When I used “> myFile” or “cat </dev/null >myFile”, when I do a “ls –la”, the file size shows as 0.
I then wrote 540 lines to the file, and then opened it using vi, I see something like this:
"myFile" 540 lines,... (3 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I have a table with 10 columns. Some columns(2nd,4th,5th,7th,8th and 10th) are Not Null columns. I'll get a tab-delimited file and want to check col by col and generate seperate error code for each col eg:102 if 2nd col value is NULL and 104 if 4th col value is NULL so on... I am a... (7 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a huge file with 20 fileds in each record and each field is seperated by "|". If i want to get all the reocrds that have 18th or for that matter any filed as null how can i do it? Please let me know (3 Replies)
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