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1. Programming
hi to all,
i am writing a simple file program in C which has to take a string of length n as input and match that input string with first n character of the line in file. if it does not match it has to compare with first n characters of next line. i am finding it difficult to know how exactly to... (2 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I need to copy a specific line from a file to another file.
lets suppose the line number 13 of a file
when I am writing the line number explicitly.. its working fine
sed -n '13p' afile > anotherfile
but, when inside a script, i am getting the line number value inside a variable... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: gotamp
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys,
the command ":yy" copies the line but it can be pasted in the same file. How can it be done if I want to copy it in other file. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ajincoep
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am having a file(1234.txt) downloaded from windows server (in Ascii format).However when i ftp this file to Unix server and try to work with it..i am unable to do anything.When i try to open the file using vi editor the file opens in the following format ...
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Discussion started by: appu2176
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a file with about 25 colums separated with '~', but few of the lines have extra tabs ('^') and new line characters ('$'). Is there a way I can delete those characters if they are anywhere before the 25th column in a line?
example:
CLUB000650;12345678;0087788667;NOOP MEMBER ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: rudoraj
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Dear Members,
For example i have a file which contains 10 lines as below:
123testing
gopjp
jg9459\
834789rh
fh456
47rf
497rvg
409748\
08ntr
i need the first three characters of the first line of the file.
if i use
cut -c 1-3 < sample.txtits displaying the 1st three... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: sandeep_1105
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear community,
I'm quite a newbie with scripting, I have this problem:
I have a file with many lines and I want to copy the lines from 1 to N to file.1, from N+1 to 2N to file.2, and so on up to the end of the file
I have tried with something like this (N=43 in this example):
awk '{for... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: paolalup
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Friends
I have a file
like
sample1.txt
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10998909.txt
10898990.txt
1898772222.txt
8980000000000.txt
I need to take first 3 characters of each line in a file and i need to print it '
like loop
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Discussion started by: kittusri9
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello, Member or professional
need help how to count characters by line of file
Example of the file is here
cdr20080817164322811681txt
cdr20080817164322811txt
cdr20080817164322811683txt
cdr20080817164322811684txt
I want to count the characters by line of file . The output that I... (4 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
hello
I'm trying to batch copy files from one location to another. My script get's the output of a find command (i.e. find /disk3/jpm/seq -type f | xargs copy2boss)
The script works fine, except when filenames contains whitespace, backslashes and so on. Any hints? Is there another more accurate... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: kaklon
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