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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi I was wondering if anyone new of a solution to this problem? I need to copy a time stamp that is on a line of .text in a text file into multiple positions on the same line.
I need to insert the time stamp on the same line between every occurance of the text ".pdf_.html" right after the... (9 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have the following data:
Dec 24 11:31:10 0000008b 9911662486 Answered Price SGD 0.003 PERIOD: 0 m 6 s
Dec 24 11:21:42 00000086 9911662486 Answered Price SGD 0.001 PERIOD: 0 m 2 s
Dec 20 15:34:28 00000004 9911662486 Answered Price SGD 0.007 PERIOD: 0 m 12 s
Dec 20 18:42:30 0000017b... (6 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have an awk script to extract data from several files and create output in the following format as a csv file:
xxxx 01/04/12 0001 0
When data is present, I have a file. When no data is available in the input files, I would still like to create a file that looks like this:
xxxx... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: banjo25
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4. 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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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi Everybody,
I am just new to UNIX as well as to this forum. I have a text file with 10,000 coloumns and each coloumn contains values separated by space. I want to separate them into new coloumns..the file is something like this
as ad af 1 A
as ad af 1 D
...
...
1 and A are in one... (7 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to use sed to insert data at a specific column, let's say my data looks like this:
0553 1828
0552 1829
0550 1829
0549 1830
0548 1831
what I want is this:
timein 0553 timeout 1828
timein 0552 timeout 1829
timein 0550 timeout 1829
timein 0549 timeout 1830
timein 0548... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: mswartz
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am having trouble converting a text file. I have been working for this whole day now, still i couldn't make it.
Here is how the text file looks:
_______________________________________________________
DEVICE STATUS INFORMATION FOR LOCATION 1:
OPER STATES: Disabled E:Enabled ... (5 Replies)
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8. 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,
sed: command garbled:... (4 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello! I have a text file containing
some text : : : bla
other text : : : bla
any text : : : bla
containing 3 columns separated by the ':' sign.
Now i want to insert 'this' in the 2nd line after the 2nd column-deliminiter (i.e. into 3rd column), like
some text : : : bla
other text :... (1 Reply)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello. Trying to insert text at line 1 and after last line of file. I have searched posts but nothing seems to work. I keep getting extra characters error or nothing gets inserted into the file.
#!/bin/sh
touch textfile.txt
sed 'i\
Add this line before every line with WORD' textfile.txt
... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: steveramsey
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