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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
I have a fixed-length positional file. I am trying to replace content of position 4-13 (length=10) with xxxxxxxxxx.
Sample 2 rows in this file:
H0187459823 172SMITH, JOE
H0112345678 172DOE, JANE
In this example 87459823 (from 1st line) and 12345678 (from 2nd line) (both in position... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Diver181
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a test file a.txt
001 123 456 789
002 This is just a
001 test data
003 file.
I want to clear columns 5 and 6 if the first 3 characters are 001 using awk.
I tried following but does not work. Any suggestions?
awk 'BEGIN{OFS=FS=""} {if (substr($0,1,3)=="123") $5=" "; $6="... (20 Replies)
Discussion started by: Soham
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
My objective is to replace the 8th, 9th, 10th characters by 1 space per character (total 3 spaces) in a file.
I achieved this using following command:
sed 's/\(.\)/\1@/7;s/@\(...\)/ /' FileData.txt > FileData_UPDATED.txt
Another situation comes when I need to done same but excluding 1st... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: manishdivs
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all, I have column 2 full of values like HIVE4A-56 and HIVE4-56. I want to convert all values like HIVE4A-56 to HIVE4-56.
So basically I want to delete all single alphabets before the '-' which is always preceded by a number. Values already in the desired format should remain unchanged... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ames1983
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, I am trying to use an awk command to replace specific character positions on a line beginning with 80 with contents of another file.
The line beginning with 80 in file1 is as follows:
I want to replace the 000000000178800 (positions 34 - 49) on this file with the contents of... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: nwalsh88
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Script for if characters from positions 7-15 are matching with characters from position 211-219 then replace all char from 211-219 with 9 space.
Total length of record is 420. Here is the specification of the data in file.
Position Field Data Type... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: lancesunny
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to replace dashes (i.e. -) if present from positions 351-357 with zero (i.e. 0), I also need to replace dash (i.e “-“) if present between position 024-043 with zero (i.e. 0) & I replace " " (i.e. 2 space characters) if present at position 381-382 with "04". Total length of record is 413.... (11 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Can someone tell me how I can do this?
e.g:
Say file1.txt contains:
today is monday
the 22 of
NOVEMBER
2010
and file2.txt contains:
the
11th
month
of
How do i replace the word NOVEMBER with (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: tuathan
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am attempting to replace positions 44-46 with YYY if positions 48-50 = XXX.
awk -F "" '{if (substr($0,48,3)=="XXX") $44="YYY"}1' OFS="" $filename > $tempfile
But this is not working, 44-46 is still spaces in my tempfile instead of YYY. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: halplessProblem
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
i am having text file like this
40000201040005200213072009000000700000050744820906904421
40069300240005200713072009000000067400098543630000920442
i want to replace 9-16 positions of my txt file...by 1234567...in a single line command
i.e
0400052....should be replaced by... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: suryanarayana
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