I need to remove the first two characters and the last two characters of each line. but i also need to be able to put those removed characters back to where they were before they were removed.
This only removes the first two characters of each line and the last two.
where im getting stuck is, how do i get back the removed characters?
a thought that crossed my mind is to first get the first two characters of each line line. save it to a file and do the same for the last two characters.
then find a way to merge firstwo.characters and lastwo.characters with data.txt.pruned so they look like the original text in data.txt?
i suppose the commands join may be used here. but im looking for something that can work on all Unix systems (portable), especially those systems that are considered "embedded". if awk can be used here, that'll be great.
Could you please try following and let me know how it goes then, though I am not sure about your complete requirement.
Code:
cat script.ksh
FIRST_TWO=$(awk '{Q=Q?Q "@@" substr($0,1,2):substr($0,1,2)} END{print Q}' file1)
LAST_TWO_CHAR=$(awk '{Q=Q?Q "@@" substr($0,length($0)-1,2):substr($0,length($0)-1,2)} END{print Q}' file1)
REST_CHAR=$(awk '{Q=Q?Q "@@" substr($0,3,length($0)-4):substr($0,3,length($0)-4)} END{print Q}' file1)
echo "Separate ones:"
echo "First 2 chars of each line: " $FIRST_TWO
echo "Last 2 chars of each line: " $LAST_TWO_CHAR
echo "Lines without first 2 chars and last 2 chars:" "$REST_CHAR"
echo "combining the lines again here..."
awk -vfirst_two="$FIRST_TWO" -vlast_two_char="$LAST_TWO_CHAR" -vrest_char="$REST_CHAR" 'BEGIN{num=split(first_two, A,"@@");split(last_two_char, B,"@@");split(rest_char, C,"@@");for(i=1;i<=num;i++){print A[i] C[i] B[i]}}'
So when we are running the script then following will be the output.
Code:
./script.ksh
Separate ones:
First 2 chars of each line: 1h@@1l@@19@@1w@@22@@ZG@@66
Last 2 chars of each line: RU@@5k@@5S@@Rq@@kw@@FV@@Ft
Lines without first 2 chars and last 2 chars: sRmRsbHRiSFZNTTA1dlEyMWFkbU5wUW5CSlIyeDFTVU5SYjJOSFRuWmpia0ZuWXpKV2FHTn@@KUnpWMldrZFZaMG95V25oYQpSelEyWTBka2QyRklhSHBrUjA1b1kwUkJkd3BOVXpWM1lVaG@@5Um5kaFZ6VnFURzFPZG1KVFFsQlZhVUp0WTFkU2RVOXVRbTVqClIyZzBZek5TYWxsWVFYZE@@xWTBkb05FeHRaR2hqUjJ4MVdYazFhbUl5TUdkVU1VbG5DbHB1Um10aWFuQjNXak5DYjJWSV@@oKTWtaM1RVUkJla3h1UW05bFF6VnVXVmhDY0dKdFRYVlpNamwwU1VVNVUwbEhXbmhhUnpRMl@@tkMkZJYUhwa1IwNW9ZMFJCZDA1RApOWGNLWVVobmRWb3lSbmRoVnpWcVRHMU9kbUpUUWxCVm@@qRZMWRTZFU5dVFtNWpSMmcwWXpOU2FsbFlRWGROUkZWMVkwZG9ORXh0ClpHaGpSMngxV1hrMW
combining the lines again here...
1hsRmRsbHRiSFZNTTA1dlEyMWFkbU5wUW5CSlIyeDFTVU5SYjJOSFRuWmpia0ZuWXpKV2FHTnRU
1lKUnpWMldrZFZaMG95V25oYQpSelEyWTBka2QyRklhSHBrUjA1b1kwUkJkd3BOVXpWM1lVaG5k
195Um5kaFZ6VnFURzFPZG1KVFFsQlZhVUp0WTFkU2RVOXVRbTVqClIyZzBZek5TYWxsWVFYZE5S
1wxWTBkb05FeHRaR2hqUjJ4MVdYazFhbUl5TUdkVU1VbG5DbHB1Um10aWFuQjNXak5DYjJWSVRq
22oKTWtaM1RVUkJla3h1UW05bFF6VnVXVmhDY0dKdFRYVlpNamwwU1VVNVUwbEhXbmhhUnpRMlkw
ZGtkMkZJYUhwa1IwNW9ZMFJCZDA1RApOWGNLWVVobmRWb3lSbmRoVnpWcVRHMU9kbUpUUWxCVmFV
66qRZMWRTZFU5dVFtNWpSMmcwWXpOU2FsbFlRWGROUkZWMVkwZG9ORXh0ClpHaGpSMngxV1hrMWFt
This is just an example where you could use the first 2 characters, last 2 characters and rest of the line without them in a script itself rather than saving them into files. If you have more requirements then kindly do let us know on same.
Thanks,
R. Singh
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