10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi All,
I have records in unix file like below. In this file, we have empty fields from 4th Column to 22nd Column. I have some 200000 records in a file. I want to extract records only which have empty fields from 4th field to 22nd filed. This file is comma separated file. what is the unix... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: rakeshp
2 Replies
2. Shell Programming and Scripting
In file1 field $18 is removed.... column header is "Otherinfo", then each line in file1 is used to search file2 for a match. When a match is found the last four strings in file2 are copied to file1.
Maybe:
cut -f1-17 file1 and then match each line to file2
file1
Chr Start End ... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: cmccabe
6 Replies
3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
I've got a file that has 12 fields. I've merged 2 files and there will be some duplicates in the following:
FILE:
1. ABC, 12345, TEST1, BILLING, GV, 20/10/2012, C, 8, 100, AA, TT, 100
2. ABC, 12345, TEST1, BILLING, GV, 20/10/2012, C, 8, 100, AA, TT, (EMPTY)
3. CDC, 54321, TEST3,... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: tugar
4 Replies
4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all !
I'm sure it is a basic question but I didn't find any threads that fit my need.
How to remove empty fields with awk?
Or in other words, how to shift all the fields after an empty field on the left?
input:
1|2||3|4|5||6
wanted:
1|2|3|4|5|6
I tried:
awk '{for(i=1; i<=NF;... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: lucasvs
7 Replies
5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have this
text.filecharles darwin sam delight
george washington johnson culper
darwin sam delight
micheal jackson penny lite and would like to remove the row, if the first field is blank. so the result would be:
result.filecharles darwin sam ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: charles33
4 Replies
6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have the test data with 10 column separated by comma and each column has more than 1000000 rows. Can anyone help me to find empty field in all columns and delete that empty field alone and lift that column up by one row.
Data with empty field:
A74203XYZ,A21718XYZ,A72011XYZ,A41095XYZ,... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: zooby
7 Replies
7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a script with this statement:
/usr/xpg4/bin/awk -F"" 'NR==FNR{s=$2;next}{printf "%s\"%s\"\n", $0, s}' LOOKUP.TXT finallistnew.txt >test.txt
I want to include logic or an additional step that says if there is no data in field 3, move the whole line out of test.txt into an additional... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: scriptr2be
9 Replies
8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I was just looking at this post: https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/22893-delete-multiple-empty-lines.html.
and I am looking to achieve the same with sed. So the idea is to delete lines from a file where a certain field has no value.
Inputfile:
EMID MMDDYY HOURS JOB EMNAME
0241... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: figaro
4 Replies
9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I have searched and found various threads about removing spaces from a field within a text file. Unfortunately, I have not found exactly what I'm looking for, nor am I adept enough to modify what I've found into what I need.
I use the following command to remove the first line... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: carriehoff
3 Replies
10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I have a file which looks like this
name: Sally group: Group4
name: Tim group: Group1
name: Dan group: Group2
name: Chris group: Group3
name: Peter group:
name: Fred group:
name: Mary group: Group2
Well I want to get rid of the... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: bombcan
4 Replies