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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a script wherein I access each line of the file using a FOR loop and then perform some operations in each line. The problem is each line that gets extracted in FOR loop truncates trailing blank spaces and control characters (^M) that is present at the end of each line. I don't wan this to... (5 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
I am trying to remove all tabspaces and all blankspaces from my file using sed & awk, but not getting proper code. Please help me out.
My file is like this (<b> means one blank space, <t> means one tab space)-
$ cat file
NARESH<b><b><b>KUMAR<t><t>PRADHAN... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: NARESH1302
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have a problem where I need to append few spaces(say 10 spaces) for each line in a file whose length is say(100 chars) and others leave as it is.
I tried to find the length of each line and then if the length is say 100 chars then tried to write those lines into another file and use a sed... (17 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have the following data from a manual database dump. I need to format the columns so that I can import them into an excel spread sheet. So far I have been able to get past the hurdles with vi and grep. Now I have one last issue that I can't get past. Here is an example of the data.
Here is... (18 Replies)
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5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
I have a file in which I need to truncate 15th field to have only one character
like Put --> P
and if i have no value in 15th field, it should be "O" (Other)
would really appreciate the reponses, thnx in advance:b: (2 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello everybody it's me again.
I have a procces that is writing in a 'file1' automatically but i want to truncate 'file1' to a filesize 'x' that mean if the 'file1' size is 'x' i want to delete the first lines while the last lines are being writed, that have sence?
in the process are an... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Lestat
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to strip all leading and trailing spaces of a shell variable using either awk or sed or any other utility, however unscuccessful and need your help.
echo $SH_VAR | command_line Syntax.
The SH_VAR contains embedded spaces which needs to be preserved. I need only for the leading and... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: jerardfjay
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
what does this command do ? as in
does this command just make sure everything in the file is executed?
or does it flush the file?
Actually this is used on a file in a progress database but I believe it is a unix command? (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: rocker40
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