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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Would like to insert value between two empty delimiter and at the very last too if empty.
$ cat customerleft.tbl
300|Customer#000000300|I0fJfo60DRqQ|7|17-165-193-5964|8084.92|\N|p fluffily among the slyly express grouches. furiously express instruct||||||||||||||||||||||||\N... (3 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I want to remove empty field in a text file. I tried to used sed. But it failed.
Input:
LG10_PM_map_19_LEnd 1000560 G AG AG
LG10_PM_map_19_LEnd 1005621 G AG
LG10_PM_map_19_LEnd 1011214 A AG AG
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All ,
I have pipe delimiter file with 11 columns . I need to insert 4 empty columns after column 10 . and After 11 column I need to insert a column which is having the same value for all the rows .
My file
1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11
New file
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Greetings:
I generate an empty flat file just fine when there's no data returned from my process, as the customer wants one always (using the 1st line of the below script). However, they also want at least the column names in this flat file (row 1, the only row to be in the emply file). I'm... (7 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a tab delimited flat file, for example shown below
Name Desg Loc
a b c
d e fI want to insert an empty column inbetween the column Desc and Loc, the result should be like shown below:
Name LName Desg Loc
a b c
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I want to insert the text 'Unknown' in 2 specific columns in a csv file (actually | separated) if the column is blank. Its always the same columns.
I have tried using sed: sed "s/||/|Unknown|/g"
but there are occasion where other fields are blank and they need to be left blank. This... (4 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I can't seem to get sed to allow me to insert text in the first line of an empty file. I have a file.txt that is a 0 byte file. I want sed to insert " fooBar" onto the first line. I've tried a few options and nothing seems to work. They work just fine if there's text in the file tho. Help? (4 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I want to make a script which says if a text file is empty or not.
I tried two ways of making it, but I have problems with both of them.
Now I think that the better way is the ls -s solution (considering that an empty text file has a 0 weight, because "cat file.txt" fails when file is... (4 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I need to insert new text and change existing text in a file. For that I used the below line in the command line and got the expected output.
sed '$a\
hi...
' shell > shell1
But I face problem when using the same in script. It is throwing the error as,
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear Folks :),
I am new to UNIX scripting and I do not know how can I insert some text in the first column of a UNIX text file at command promtp.
I can do this in vi editor by using this command :g/^/s//BBB_
e,g I have a file named as Test.dat and it containins below text:
michal... (4 Replies)
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