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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi All,
I have a question regarding text substitution.
I have a file that contains a lot of text.
Some of the text is separated with a \n like:
TEST\nTEST2\nTEST3
BLA\nBLA2\nBLA3
So there are both actual newlines and 'used to be newlines' in the text.
using tr
tr "\n" ","
or... (5 Replies)
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi Everybody! First post! Totally noobie.
I'm using the terminal to read a poorly formatted book.
The text file contains, in the middle of paragraphs, hyphenation to split words that are supposed to be on multiple pages. It looks ve -- ry much like this.
I was hoping to use grep -v " -- "... (5 Replies)
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3. Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions
So, I have a text file that looks like this:
0,0: (168,168,176) #A8A8B0 srgb(168,168,176)
1,0: (168,168,176) #A8A8B0 srgb(168,168,176)
2,0: (166,166,174) #A6A6AE srgb(166,166,174)
3,0: (166,166,174) #A6A6AE srgb(166,166,174)
4,0: (168,168,176) #A8A8B0 srgb(168,168,176)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I wrote the following code to remove the value which are 0 in the input file (a columns if numbers).
awk 'BEGIN {
for (i=1; i<=NF; i++)
if ($i)
printf("%13.6e\n",$i)
}' $1 >> $2
The script works if the zeros are written as
0.0000
but not as
0.000000e+00
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey everyone, I kinda new to shell programming and learning bits and pieces of stuff from tutorials.
I got this problem, where I asked my user to enter a string, which will delete a specific line in the string, which I'm unable to do it.
Text file(BookDB.txt) as shown:
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hey Folks,
I have a file that contains data that I am working with, sometimes this file has a very long string of text that messes with an awk command in a script i am trying to build. I would like to cut this string of text out of a file and then redirect everything except that string to a new... (5 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am working with bash on HP-UX server at school.
As practice for scripting, I am trying to make a pretend server admin script that adds a user to the system, deletes a user from the system, and lists all users of the pretend system. I have accomplished this with a select loop. Adding users, and... (2 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I would like to know how to remove text from a line in a file.
eg
to
The 4 sets of numbers are not static ie they change on each line in each different file so if anyone can help that would be great.
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Here is my problem I'm hoping you guru's can help me figure out. I have a text file that contains comma delimited columns. What I'm looking to do is see if the 24th column on each row in the file contains a value (not null), and then write/append that line to a different file.
I've been... (4 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Dear all
I have a file which looks like this
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,xxx,xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,xxx,xxxxxxxxxx
etc
basically 14 characters then a comma, three characters, then a comma then 10 characters. We are uploading this file to our mainframe and they want the commas removed, so it... (6 Replies)
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