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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
I am using bash in Fedora 30
From the below lines (ls -l output), how can I print whatever is between the strings 'status_' and '.log'
$ ls -l | grep -i status
-rw-rw-r--. 1 sysadmin sysadmin 378530 Nov 11 21:58 status_vsbm1.log
-rw-rw-r--. 1 sysadmin sysadmin 428776 Nov 11 21:58... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: kraljic
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Thanks to help from Don Cragun in post 302924174, I'm off and getting into trouble on my own (finally) with sed.
Here is my goal - insert \\r\n at the 60th character on each line and then every 76th character thereafter:
Input:... (3 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
how to insert a '#' in the first position of all the files based on a certain condition.
I tried this:
cat /bin/user/input_file.txt | while read a
do
b=`sed 's/.*song=good.*/\#&/g' $a `
echo $b > /bin/user/new/output_file.txt
done
input_file.txt has list of names of 10... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: anand787
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi ,
I have a file which has line similar to below
13123324234234234234234234234234234
3454546456dfhgfhgh454645654asdasfsdsddfgdgdfg
345345345mnmnbmnb346mnb4565464564564645645
Not for each line for specific position I need to insert some '|'
Positions are fixed. Like 3,5,9,11
So the... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Anupam_Halder
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a DNA file like below and I am able to write a short program which finds/not an input motif, but I dont understand how I can include in the code to report which position the motif was found. Example I want to find the first or all "GAT" motifs and want the program to report which position... (12 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to insert space in 7th position of all the lines usign vi editor or sed command
Input file
12345689010
abcdefghijk
.
.
Output file
123456 89010
abcdef ghijk
.
. (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Jairaj
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I need to add Pipe (|) at 5th and 18th position of all records a file. How can I do this?
I tried to add it at 5th position using the below code. It didnt work. Please help!!!
awk '{substr($0,5,1) ~ /|/}{print}' $input_file > $temp_file (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: gpaulose
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
It has been a long time since I have written unix code and I need to insert a variable into the first position of each line in a file. Below is an example of the script and the desired output file
Here is my short script
server="$(hostname)"
df -kg | awk '{print $1, $2, $3, $4,... (3 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I have a flat file with ~ as de-limiter (e.g: aaa~ba a~caa~0~d~e)
What I want is check if the 4th character is 0 and replace it with say 4. So now it becomes : aaa~ba a~caa~4~d~e.
I have to do this for the whole file, but the delimiter position remains the same, not the... (10 Replies)
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10. HP-UX
Hi,
I have a EDI data file ARROWTEST of size 18246 characters. And I want to insert some data after 4200 position in the file. How I can find the position 4200 in that file....Please advise.
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Discussion started by: isingh786
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