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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi experts,
Could someone help me how to figure out the following substitution?
I copied and pasted a column of names from an Excel file into another file in vi. The column of data has last names with dash (hyphens) and apostrophes. My goal is to do the following:
1) remove the apostrophes... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: onlinelearner02
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello, I'm trying to do a substitution in vi. which adds a field for the year to a line.
If the line doesnt include a year, it should still add a field (although empty)
the fields are:
Country:number:number:name(and sometimes year):place
this is a desired in and output:
Sweden:55:32:John... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: drareeg
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
How do i substitute ' with space in a file using sed or awk
i am getting the following two scenarios
1) xyz'd with xyz d
if i use
sed 's/xyz\\\'d/xy z/g'
it is taking ' after \ as closing expr for substitution
2) xyz';d with xyz d
please advice (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: mad_man12
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello, I have a file with 10,000+ records which look like this:
Image3992170.tif 4/21/200811:42:09AM 3,373.13KB
Image3993265.tif 4/11/20087:17:58PM 2,369.72KB
Image3996764.tif 5/2/200811:01:28AM 2,155.87KB
Image3997700.tif ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: lotusdeva
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
All,
I have this text document that contains a listing(See below).
What i would like to ask is how i could extract just the information i need which is the files name (CWS*****.***.gz)
If anyone has any suggestions i would be very grateful. I am sure its relatively simple but i just... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Andyp2704
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
What is the actual difference between these two? Why the following code works for process substitution and fails for command substitution?
while IFS= read -r line; do echo $line; done < <(cat file)executes successfully and display the contents of the file
But,
while IFS='\n' read -r... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: royalibrahim
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi ,
I am stuck up in the below scenario:-
I need to read a file name (eg A.txt) name frm another file (eg B.txt) and then I need to search for a particular expression in A.txt and substitute it with another expression.
How can I use SED inside SHELL Scripting and command prompt as well to... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: shubhranshu
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi ,
I am stuck up in the below scenario:-
I need to read a file name (eg A.txt) name frm another file (eg B.txt) and then I need to search for a particular expression in A.txt and substitute it with another expression.
How can I use SED inside SHELL Scripting and command prompt as... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: shubhranshu
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
In a file I want to globally change a "|" charater by a new line character.
I am using the command
1,$s/\|/??/g
Can anybody say what should I put in place of ?? in the above command? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: uLearner
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to substituted a variable to a file using sed. However, the value of that variable is not being substituted. Here is an example of my code.
lf='
'
v_whole="${1} ${2} ${3} $lf"
cp ${IPPDIR}/ctl/fax_sub_text_a.${4}.${5}.txt... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: supercbw
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12-12-2013
