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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi,
I came across one issue recently where output from one of the columns of the table from where i am creating input file has newline characters hence, record in the file is spread over multiple lines. Fields in the file are separated by pipe (|) delimiter. As header will never have newline... (4 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello Gurus,
I have a multiple pipe separated files which have records going over multiple Lines. End of line separator is \n and records going over multiple lines have <CR> as separator. below is example from one file.
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2|PQ
RS
T|200|20
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
GM,
I have an issue at work, which requires a simple solution. But, after multiple attempts, I have not been able to hit on the code needed.
I am assuming that sed, awk or even perl could do what I need.
I have an application that adds extra blank page feeds, for multiple reports, when... (7 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello Experts , require help . See below output:
File inputs
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Server Host = mike
id rl images allocated last updated density
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5. 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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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all,
first off great forum.
Now for my little problem.
Using RHEL 5.4 and awk. Been doing code since a few month. So just starting.
My problem is handeling data on multiple lines.
{
if ($1 != LASTKEY && h ~ /.*\/s_fr_/) {
checkgecos( h, h )
h=""
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I didn't find anything that specifically answers this after searching for a bit, so please forgive me if this has been covered before.
I'm looking to delete all lines prior to the last occurrence of a string in a file or stream from within a shell script (bash.)
A bit of... (4 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm hitting a brick wall, I have huge ldif files that I'm trying to sanitize and can do it all with SED except one thing.
I have a publicKey attribute in binary that can be one line or multiple lines.
I'm trying to remove publicKey: and stop at sn (the next attribute). Even with word Wrap... (3 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have an ugly conf file that has the string I'm interested in searching for in the middle of a block of code that's relevant, and I'm trying to find a way to remove that entire block based on the matched line.
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Below an example of what I mean. The first attempt does what I want; the second doesn't, because bash assumes a line break means the end of an individual "command unix". Is there some way that I can convince bash to parse out, eg, to the closing parenthesis?
I'm thinking this would allow for... (1 Reply)
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