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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have two files, file1 and file2 who have identical number of rows and columns. However, the script is supposed to be used for for different files and I cannot know the format in advance. Also, the number of columns changes within the file, some rows have more and some less columns (they are... (13 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All
I have a file which has five columns in each rows.
cat file.txt
a|b|c|d|e
1|2|3|4|5
a1|a2|a3|a4|a5
.
.
.
I need to make sure that there are no less than five or more than five columns (in all the rows) by mistake. I tried this :
cat file.txt | awk 'BEGIN{FS="|"};{print... (3 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
I have a requirement in which i will be given a sql query as input in a file with dynamic number of columns. For example some times i will get 5 columns, some times 8 columns etc up to 20 columns.
So my requirement is to generate a output query which will have 20 columns all the... (7 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have one input file with the following content:
MY_inpfile.txt
Aname1 Cname1 Cname2 1808 5
Aname2 Cname1 1802 47
Bname1 ? 1819 22
Bname2 Cname1 1784 11
Bname3 1817 9
Zname1 Cname1 1805 59
Zname2 Cname1 Cname2 Cname3 1797 27
Every line in my input file have a 4 digit... (5 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a huge file with a single line.
But I want to break that line into lines of with each line having five columns.
My file is like this:
code:
"hi","there","how","are","you?","It","was","great","working","with","you.","hope","to","work","you."
I want it like this:
code:... (1 Reply)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello Everyone.
I am trying to display contains of a file from a specific line to a specific line(let say, from line number 3 to line number 5). For this I got the shell script as shown below:
if ; then
if ; then
tail +$1 $3 | head -n $2
else
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I am intending to perform a check based on number of "@" , present in a line in a log file . The idea is basically to perform a check on cc or bcc sender, based on an email log, which shows all the for email address. Say if the number of @ is more than 30, I will consider it as a mass... (12 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Everybody,
I am trying to write a script that will get some perticuler data from a file and redirect to a file.
My Question is,
I have a Very huge file,In that file I have my required data is started from 25th line and it will ends in 100th line.
I know the line numbers, I need to get all... (9 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a huge file & I want to add a specific text in column. But I want to add this text from a specific line number to a specific line number & another text in to another range of line numbers.
To be more specific: lets say my file has 1000 lines & 4 Columns. I want to add text "Hello"... (2 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello, I need help in appending the line number of each line to the file and also to get the total number of lines. Can somebody please help me.
I have a file say:
abc
def
ccc
ddd
ffff
The output should be:
Instance1=abc
Instance2=def
Instance3=ccc
Instance4=ddd
Instance5=ffff
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: chiru_h
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