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Old 04-08-2014
Grep null values in a file with no delimiter

Hi Folks,

We have a file that has null values but there are no delimiters. So all columns are considered as a single column.

Ex:

Code:
abc   def   123
abcdef1234567
hijklmn7896545

Now from "a" till "3" all are considered as a single column from the first row.

Our requirement is like, we need to fetch the rows that has null values and move it to a different file.

Any help on this is much appreciated.

Thanks
Jay

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 04-08-2014 at 06:20 AM.. Reason: code tags
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Old 04-08-2014
What have you tried? What do you mean null values in your input?
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Old 04-08-2014
Hello jayadanabalan,

Following may help you.

Code:
awk '/ / {print $0}'  file_name

ouptut will be as follows.

Code:
abc def 123

Thanks,
R. Singh
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