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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all,
I have a file and would like to cut the first 100 characters of the first line. I tried it with the ‘cut’-command:
cut –c100- $file > $file.tmp
But this does not work, because it will cut the first 100 characters of each line. But I need to cut them only from the beginning of... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: API
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Everyone,
i have a file 1.txt
<a><a"" dd>aaaaauweopriuew</f><">!(^)!</aa></ff>
<a><a"" dd>bbbbbuweopriuew</f><">!(^*)!</aa></ff>
i know i can use
perl -p -i -e "s/>aaaaa/aa/g" 1.txt
perl -p -i -e "s/>bbbbb/bb/g" 1.txt
to acheive only keep the first two characters of the five characters,... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: jimmy_y
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to cut the last seven characters of a variable length variable. The variable may be 7 characters or 70. I need to always be able to grab the last 7 characters. I looked at the cut command but it always seems to want to start at the beginning of a line, not the end and count backwards.
... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: kblawson14
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Gurus,
I am trying to execute the below command. However the output shows the value + path of the folder where the command is being executed. But I am only interested in the value but not the path.
du -hs /aps/inf/SeLogs
when I execute the above command, output is
32G... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: svajhala
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5. AIX
hello everybody
i am looking for a shell to cut a flat file (with a long unique line) according to a certain number of characters and redirect every result to an output file.
here is an example
MyFile :
12 3 456 12 3 456 12 3 456 .....
and i took every 9-characters including BLANKS... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: fastlane3000
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Guys,
can you help me in doing cut first 21 and 32-35 characters from file.
I tried with cut -c to cut first 21 characters ,It is succeeded.
But i need both first 21 and 32-35. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mohan_xunil
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
Need to convert file names to upper case using tr command in Unix.
In a folder -> /apps/dd01/misc
there are two files like:
pi-abcd567sd.pdf
pi-efgh1.pdf
The output of should be like:
pi-ABCD567SD.pdf
pi-EFGH1.pdf
I have used the command to work as below:
for f... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: a1_win
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I know this sounds simple, but I have a logfile with
> something
> something_else
> another_entry
...
how do I cut the first 2 characters off the left side? I tried to use
cut -c 1-2 somefile > someotherfile
but that just cut gave me the 2 left characters, I want to cut those out... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: unclecameron
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Friends
I have a file
like
sample1.txt
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10998909.txt
10898990.txt
1898772222.txt
8980000000000.txt
I need to take first 3 characters of each line in a file and i need to print it '
like loop
109
108
189
898 (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: kittusri9
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Please let me know how to cut first four characters from a line in UNIX after grepping the file.. (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: kaushikraman
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