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1. Solaris
I get a file which has all its content in a single row.
The file contains xml data containing 3000 records, but all in a single row, making it difficult for Unix to Process the file.
I decided to insert a new line character at all occurrences of a particular string in this file (say replacing... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ducati
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
Greetings,
I have the following scenario, The contents of main file are like :
Unix|||||forum|||||||||||||||is||||||the||best
so||||||be|||||on||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||it
And i need the output in the following form:
Unix=forum=is=the=best
so=be=on=it
... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: dipanchandra
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file with "@" in every line
fdgfgddfg@sfsdfdsf@dfdfd@@vfdfsdfd@
sfsdfs@sdfd@gfhfgh@@ddffg@sdf@
srfgtfsdfs@sdfertrd@eergfhfgh@@ddffg@sdf@
wttrtrt@sdfd@sdfdf@@sdfdfds@@@
I need to remove all the fourth and onwards occurences of "@".
so my final o/p would be
fdgfgddfg@sfsdfdsf@dfdfd@... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Shivdatta
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I need to replace a character in a specific position in only the first line of a
file (actually many files). Change T to a P in position 103.
I'm on solaris and my implementation of sed doesn't have the -r capability.
Thx,
Tim (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: web-guy01
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Can someone help me to write a script / command to read in a file, character by character, replace any unknown ASCII characters with space. then write out the file to a new filename/
Thanks! (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: raghav525
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
file.txt contains
abc :-X 1234 :-X fjhfkf :-X ffwerw :-X fdfgetw :-X hwfhe89 :-X
in the this file there are 6 occurance of -X
i want to replace only first 3 occurances of '-X' with 'XY'
and write back to same file. (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: nawazkhan77
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Is there any way to merge two lines based on specific occurance of a character in a file.
I am having a flat file which contains multiple records.
Each row in the file should contain specified number of delimiter.
For a particular row , if the delimiter count is not matched with... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mohan_tuty
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to find the number of occurences of a character in a file.
How do i do it.
Eg:
$cat file1.txt
Welcome to World of Unix.
$
If i want to find the occurences of 'o' then I should be getting 3.
Thanks. (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Shivdatta
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need a script that will replace all occurances of a string in all filenames and foldernames, recursively.
Right now I have this script:
for f in `find -name *eye*`; do
echo processing $f
g=`expr "xxx$f" : 'xxx\(.*\)' | tr 'eye' 'm'`
mv "$f" "$g"
done
The problem is that tr... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: TheMJ
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Is there a simple way to replace the 9th character of every line in a text file?
Right now it is a space and instead I want to stick in a 0, every line is the same.
Is there a quick way to do this in Unix? (Solaris) (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: LordJezo
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