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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have the requirement similar to the one mentioned in the below thread.
https://www.unix.com/unix-for-dummies-questions-and-answers/128155-search-replace-string-only-particular-column-delimited-file.html
The only difference is that I need to change the field for row 1,2 and the last... (14 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
Thanks for taking time to read through the thread and for providing any possible solution.
I am trying to pivot a comma separated field in a pipe delimited file. Data looks something like this:
Field1|Field2
123|345,567,789
234|563,560
345|975,098,985,397,984
456|736
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Thank you for 4 looking this post.
We have a tab delimited file where we are facing problem in a lot of funny character. I have tried using awk but failed that is not working.
In the 5th field ID which is supposed to be a integer only of that file, we are getting corrupted data as below.
I... (12 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
In my file (which is "," delimited and text qualifier is "), I have to extract a particualr field.
file1:
1,"aa,b",4
expected is the 2nd field:
aa,b
I tried the basic cut -d "," -f 2 file 1, this gave me
aa alone instead aa,b.
A small hint ot help on this will be very... (5 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Need help. I tried using an awk command to pad zeroes. Unfortunately, the "|" pipe delimited character is gone when I tried to write the records to another file.
awk -F \| ' {$1=sprintf("%06s", $1); print $0}' $CUSTFINAL2 > $CUSTFINAL3
BEFORE
"KEYRECORD"|"SA ID"|"PER ID"|"SP ID"|"ACCT... (3 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I have a file with fields delimited by |. I need to remove the first field from the file. I tried cut but it just extracts that field.
sample.output
abc|100|name1
cde|200|name2
efg|300|name3
Output should be
sample.output
100|name1
200|name2
300|name3
thanks
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
I have about 100 files in a directory with fields which are tab delimited. I would like to append the file name as the first field and it has to be done as many times as the total lines in the file.
For example,
myFile1.txt has the following data:
1 x y z
2 a b ... (5 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
Can someone help me to do this with awk or sed? I have a file with multiple lines, each line has many fields separated with a tab. I would like to add one more field holding 'na' in between the first and second fields.
old file looks like,
1, field1 field2 field3 ...
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a large file with fields delimited by '|', and I want to run some analysis on it. What I want to do is count how many times each field is populated, or list the frequency of population for each field.
I am in a Sun OS environment.
Thanks,
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I want to replace a field in a text delimited file with the actual number of records in the same file.
HDR|ABCD|10-13-2008 to 10-19-2008.txt|10-19-2008|XYZ
DTL|0|5464-1|0|02-02-2008|02-03-2008||||F|||||||||
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