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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
I'm a complete beginner in UNIX (and not a computer science student either), just undergoing a tutoring course. Trying to replicate the instructions on my own I directed output of the ls listing command (lists all files of my home directory ) to My_dir.tsv file (see the screenshot) to make use of... (9 Replies)
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm having bother getting both lines contained in a file to output as the same value.
A simple example:
john:123456:123:456:doe
john:123456:123:doe
cut -d: -f1,4 input file
john:456
john:doe ^ first line should be same as second.
trick one for me, i know why it's because of the... (4 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
I got a requirement when I was working with a file. Say the file has unloads of data from a table in the form
1|121|asda|434|thesi|2012|05|24|
1|343|unit|09|best|2012|11|5|
I was put into a scenario where I need the field count in all the lines in that file. It was simply... (6 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have data in following format.
10001, John, Daves, Architecture, -2219
10002, Jim, Cirners, Businessman, -2219
1003, Tom, Katch, Engineer, -14003
I want to select the last column of the above given file and paste it on a different file in the following manner.
File TEST column... (11 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm working on formatting some attendance data to meet a vendors requirements to upload to their system. With some help on the forums here, I have the data close. But they've since changed what they want.
The vendor wants me to submit three fields to them. Field 1 is the studentid field,... (4 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I would like to extract one or two fields of a line.
At the moment, I am extracting the first field of a line:
command | cut -f 1 -d '.' > file
The line can have two or three fields delimited with a dot.
if three fields, I want to be able to get the first two
ie if line =... (3 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a text:
dsj khfksjdh <time> EST 2006
ab cgnr jkkjt <time> EST 2006
gfhdgjghg <time> EST 2006
fkdjh kjhsekjrh kdjhfkh jhdfkhfdkjh kjdf <time> EST 2006
In the above file i need to extract time from every line... which is always the third from the last... Pls help!
Cheers,
Bouren (4 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a tab delimited file which has 90 fields and 15 million rows approximately...
I need to cut the first 78 fields only and I am using the
cut -f1-78 <filename> <outputfile>
It is taking a lot of time...
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to cut two coloums simulatiously and paste in some other file
for ex:
cut d ' ' -f3 -f4 xxx | paste yyy - > zzz;
from the above i want to cut two fileds 3 and 4 and paste as last coloums of single file (zzz).
how to solve this
regards
rajan (1 Reply)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Is there a way to count the no. of fields (columns) in a file?
Actually I need to cut some fields starting from the middle to the end. How can I specify to cut till last field?
thanks in advance
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