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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have two files which look like this
cat waitstate.txt
18.2
82.1
cat gostate.txt
5.6
5.8
6.1
6.3
6.6
6.9
7.2
7.5 (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: jamie_123
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need a script that will run in unix to:
1) Read and input file with 1 column that contains for ex:
0123456789
1234567890
...etc
2) Checks the first column if it is:
a. Numeric from 0 - 9
b. if it is not less... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: mrn6430
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am trying to figure out how to get the length of the longest column in the entire file (because the length varies from one row to the other)
I was doing this at first to check how many fields I have for the first row:
awk '{print NF; exit}' file
Now, I can do this:
awk '{ if... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: MIA651
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a field MPN-BANK-NUMBERO:006,00:N in a file FILE1
How can i display the length of the Bank Number.Any idea ?
The output shud take the following format
FILE 1 6
Where 1 is the starting position and 6 is the Ending position. (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: bobby1015
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I was trying to use the AIX 6.1 sort command to sort fixed-length data records, sorting by specific columns only. It took some time to figure out how to get it to work, so I wanted to share the solution. The sort man page wasn't much help, because it talks about field delimeters (default space... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: CheeseHead1
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file with 400 characters
How can I create another file with only a portion of them (like 300 within 400) and get rid of the rest?
Thanks (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: fafchi
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a number of unix text files containing fixed-length records (normal unix linefeed terminator) where I need to find odd records which are an incorrect length.
The data is not validated and records can contain odd backslash characters and control characters which makes them awkward to process... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: methyl
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
New to awk and need some help. I have a script that I would like to make more compact. I want to read a file and grab every field, from every record, except the last field. The records are variable length and have varying number of fields. A record will have at least two fields, but can have... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: synergy_texas
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a pipe delimited file. I need to check that the first and second fields are 5 characters long and if not i need to append 0 in front of them to make them 5 characters long. can some body let mwe know how i can find the length of the two fields and then make them 5 characters long if they... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: dsravan
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I need some help regarding in writing a Korne shell script, in determining the fixed length records in a data file. We have already utility in place, which does this work. The Code for this is as below. In the below $1 is the parameter passed to the script, which is the data file name.
... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: nrajesh_2009
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