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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to get the file extension with file names that could contain multiple dots using shell scripting. I want to find a way using the sed command.
Example Filenames:
one.dat
one.dat.002
Results:
dat
I would like to return dat in both instances using the sed command. How can I... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: smkremer
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
In my file, I have few records which are split across multiple lines.
File 1:
=====
james,\n
pre-auth completed,in patient,\n
Fac_Id:23451,ramson,Dallas
Expected is:
==========
james,pre-auth completed,in patient,Fac_Id:23451,ramson,Dallas (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: machomaddy
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi there,
i need some help to remove all occurrences of a certain character at the beginning of a string.
Example: my string is 00102030 and i want to remove all zeros from beginning of string so the result is 102030 (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: gigagigosu
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am trying to remove spaces from the beginning of a string (which i am using in my shell script). For ex - my string looks like this -
" no rows selected"
and i want the string to look like this -
"no rows selected"
How can i achieve this?
Thanks! (18 Replies)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
how could you go about removing words that begin with a certain character.
assuming that this character is '-' I currently have
echo "-hello" | sed s/-/""/
which replaces the leading dash with nothing but I want to remove the whole word, even if there are multiple words beginning... (3 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I am trying to write a bash shell script that does the following:
1.Finds all *.txt files within my directory of interest
2. reads each of the files (25 files) one by one (tab-delimited format and have the same data format)
3. skips the first 10 rows of the file
4. extracts and... (4 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I have files in the filename pattern of,
this.is.the.name.of.my.file.mov
and I would like to remove dots (.) and replace them with spaces ( ) so the output would be,
this is the name of my file.mov
The other issue that I have is that the number of dots (.) in the file... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Monkey Dean
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi!
I store some data obtained with grep or awk in a file. The problem is that some lines have white space at the begining :
line1
line2
line3
I use something like
grep WORD INFILE >> OUTFILE
awk >> OUTFILE
I would love if it were possible to remove the white whitout parsing the... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: tipi
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a large list of filenames from an Excel sheet, which I then translate into a simple text file. I'd like to use this list, which contains various file extensions , to archive these files and then remove them recursively through multiple directories and subdirectories. So far, it looks like... (5 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I posted this already in another thread, but was told that I should create a seperate thread for the following question:
How do I strip the extension when the delimiter might occur multiple times in the filename?
For example:
I have 2 files as input for my script.
test.extension... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Nemelis
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