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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi again
I have an xml file and want to remove the leading white space as it causes me issues later in my script
I see sed is possible but cant seem to get it to work
I tried
sed 's/^ *//' file.xml
output
<xn:VsDataContainer id="1U104799" modifier="update">
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2. Programming
Greetings everyone!
I keep getting a very long whitespace after some char strings I'm outputting.
This is the function where I input the names, last names...:
void add_to_list (void)
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{
ADDRESS *new_name;
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a 13 number string, some whitespace, and then /mp3.
I need to join them. Everyline that I need this for begins with "cd" (without the quotes).
What it looks like now:
cd media/Audio/WAVE/9781933976334 /mp3 What I want my output to be:
cd media/Audio/WAVE/9781933976334/mp3 The 13... (7 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
Following is an example line.
echo "192.22.22.22 \"33dffwef\" 200 300 dsdsd" | sed "s:\(\ *\ \):\1:"
I want it's output to be
200
However this is not the case. Can you tell me how to do it? I don't want to use AWK for this. Secondly, how can i fetch just 300? Should I use "\2"... (3 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, I'm very new to shell scripting and have searched google and this forum for quite some time now.
I have the following in my xml file:
<recipients>
<member>value1</member>
</recipients>
I need to find a string <recipients> that follows with a new-line and bunch of spaces and... (5 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Greetings
I need to replace "whitespace" in a file with the newline character aka carriage return
My command is either wrong or not interpreted properly by me shell
sed s/" "/\\n" "/g nets > nets1
or
sed s/" "/\n" "/g nets > nets1
nets (input file)
13MHZ_IN... (4 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
I have teh follwing details in a file:
SmithA..... ,,400
JonesA..... ,,300
JamesA..... ,,600
BakerA ,,800
ChrisA ,,1200
the first field name is 6 characters in length always and alays ends with an 'A'.
The periods denote white space (space caharacters), as you can see on certain... (1 Reply)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I would assume the expression ^$ should match a null string. Yet when I run:
echo -n | sed 's/^$/nullstring/'
I get no output.
Can anyone tell me why? (6 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to remove the whitespace at the end of each line of a text file in ksh.
Im using
sed s/ $//g' file1.txt > file2.txt
It's not working. Any clues? (3 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys, I hope you can help me with my problem.
I have a text file that contains lines like this:
78 ANGELO -809.05
79 ANGELO2 -5,000.06
I need to find all occurences of amounts that are negative and replace them with x's
78 ANGELO xxxxxxx
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