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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Since output of w command have variable number of columns I want to get the output in pipe delimited format. I tried
export OFS="|"; w
but that does not work.
Any ideas? (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Soham
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi, I have a rquirement in unix as below .
I have a text file with me seperated by | symbol and i need to generate a excel file through unix commands/script so that each value will go to each column.
ex:
Input Text file:
1|A|apple
2|B|bottle
excel file to be generated as output as... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: raja kakitapall
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a small quandry. I had server reports that I pulled from a database that came out pipe "|" delimited. The developers have now changed the format to CSV. The issue is that some fields have quotes around the text and other fields are blank with strings of commas denoting each field. To further... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: dagamier
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
I need to know how i can ignore Pipe '|' if Pipe is coming as a column in Pipe delimited file
for eg:
file 1:
xx|yy|"xyz|zzz"|zzz|12...
using below awk command
awk 'BEGIN {FS=OFS="|" } print $3
i would get xyz
But i want as :
xyz|zzz to consider as whole column... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: rohit_shinez
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am trying to search for a string in a file and print all the matched lines as pipe delimited format.
My command is
cat m_gid_trans.XML|grep -i '<TABLEATTRIBUTE NAME ="Lookup cache directory name"'
The output I am getting is
<TABLEATTRIBUTE NAME ="Lookup cache directory name"... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: sampoorna
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file which was pipe delimited, I need to make it tab delimited. I tried with sed but no use
cat file | sed 's/|//t/g'
The above command substituted "/t" not tab in the place of pipe.
Sample file:
abc|123|2012-01-30|2012-04-28|xyz
have to convert to:
abc 123... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: karumudi7
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I have a requirement where I need to go to a directory, list all the files that start with person* (for eg) & read the most recent file from the list of files.
While browsing through the forum, i found that the command ls -t will list the files. I am trying to generate the output... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: dsfreddie
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I have space delimited file similar to the one as shown below.. I need to convert it as a pipe delimited, the values inside the pipe delimited file should be as highlighted...
AA ATIU2345098809 009697 005374
BB ATIU2345097809 005445 006518
CC ATIU9685098809 003215 003571
DD... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: nithins007
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a large(ish) pipe delimited file.
The last line of the file contains a total row count and a checksum:
END|1537451|1328569446
After making other adjustments to the file, I need to strip out the checksum and apply a new value - I have a script to generate the checksum and 'cat' it... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: relentl3ss
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
i have a file whose data is like this::
osr_pe_assign|-120|wg000d@att.com|4|
osr_evt|-21|wg000d@att.com|4|
pe_avail|-21|wg000d@att.com|4|
osr_svt|-11|wg000d@att.com|4|
pe_mop|-13|wg000d@att.com|4|
instar_ready|-35|wg000d@att.com|4|
nsdnet_ready|-90|wg000d@att.com|4|... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: priyanka3006
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