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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)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a file with hundreds of lines. I want to search for particular lines starting with 4000, search and replace the 137-139 position characters; which will be '000', with '036'. Can all of this be done without opening a temp file and then moving that temp file to the original file name.
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3. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi Team -
I hope everyone has been well!
I export a file from one of our source systems that gives me more information than I need. The way the file outputs, I need to extract certain strings at different positions on the file and echo them to another file.
I can do this in batch easily,... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: SIMMS7400
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4. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
This is my problem, I am using the following code to extract the file names with specific strings 0.01:
find ./ -name "*.txt" -exec grep -H '0.01' {} +
It works wonders with a small sample. However, when I use it in a real scenario it produces an empty file -even though I am sure there are... (11 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi.
I have a Fixed Length text file as input where the character positions 4-5(two character positions starting from 4th position) indicates the LOB indicator. The file structure is something like below:
10126Apple DrinkOmaha
10231Milkshake New Jersey
103 Billabong Illinois
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
My file has a numerous sttrings.I want to retain those strings which start with stt and delete entries with >C
For eg:
my infile is
>C4603985... (7 Replies)
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7. 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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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
so i have the following string:
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all, I need help.
I have an input text file (input.txt) like this:
21 GTGCAACACCGTCTTGAGAGG 50
21 GACCGAGACAGAATGAAAATC 73
21 CGGGTCTGTAGTAGCAAACGC 108
21 CGAAAAATGAACCCCTTTATC 220
21 CGTGATCCTGTTGAAGGGTCG 259
Now I need to count A/T/G/C numbers at each character location in column... (2 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello ,
I need to extract data from specific byte positions of a file.
I have tried the below command
awk ' { printf "%s", substr($0, 642363,642369}' filename
to extract data between byte positions
642363 and 642369 .
However I did not get the expected result.
I am new to awk... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: rmv
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