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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to reorder the fields of an input file. I was using the following awk statement but I am stumped on how to get it exactly as I need.
I need the output to be tab delimited except for the CITY, NAME and ID. Those last set of columns should be a single field separated by a space. And they... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: ncwxpanther
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Sorry for the weird title but i have the following problem.
We have several files which have between 10000 and about 500000 lines in them. From these files we want to remove lines which contain a pattern which is located in another file (around 20000 lines, all EAN codes). We also want to get... (28 Replies)
Discussion started by: SDohmen
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Just my second week working on awk I need a hint for the following tasks.
I want to limit my logfile from the very outset to 200 lines. All I do until now is
head -c 10K >> /home/uplog.txt | awk 'END{print NR " swap " NF$5; exit}' /home/uplog.txt;
After being read it shall print the very... (27 Replies)
Discussion started by: 1in10
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a flat file with the 3 columns and separate by tab delimiter, and the last column with special character.
A B
C D
F G
Now I would like to swap the third column with second column to following format:
A B
C D
F G
I know this cannot be done in Unix command with using cut... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: newbie2011
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi friends,
I am beginner in shell scripting. I am trying to modify (Reorder and insert column) a BIG .txt file using awk to create a .bim file. My start file has 25 columns But I need to make a new file with only 5 columns from the start file and insert a new column in position 3 with value... (5 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a fixed width flatfile, I want to view this file specific to it's character position and in order I want to...example as below
ABCDE.txt
01COLTSMANNING18
02PATS BRADY 12
03PACKSROGERS 12I used unix cut command to see specific field based on length but unable to order them as... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: okkadu
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
hey guys!
i need to read data from a file that are comma separated then reorder them in another file to be generated
for example:
x,y,z
a,b,c
l,m,n
o,p,q
and transform this into:
x,a,l,o
y,b,m,p
z,c,n,q
Will appreciate your fast reply
Regards! (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: maiooi90
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi guys,
im fairly new to unix and bash scripts and therefore your help would really be appreciated.
i need to write a bash script that will take a csv file, and reorder the data and output to another csv file.
The source csv file will look something like this:
HEAD,671061,Add,SS... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: daz_20
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi there, I have a text file with several colums separated by "|;#" I need to search the file extracting all columns starting with the value of "1" or "2" saving in a separate file just the first 7 columns of each row maching the criteria, with replacement of the saparators in the nearly created... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: capnino
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10. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
I have a file which is one big long line of text about 10Kb long.
Can someone provide a way using awk to introduce carriage returns every 40 chars in this file.
Any other solutions would also be welcome.
Thank you in advance. (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: martinbarretto
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