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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi, I have a rquirement in unix as below .
I have a text file with me seperated by | symbol and i need to generate a excel file through unix commands/script so that each value will go to each column.
ex:
Input Text file:
1|A|apple
2|B|bottle
excel file to be generated as output as... (9 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I have some tab delimited files that may contain blank columns. I would like to delete the blank columns if they exist. There is no clear pattern for when a blank occurs.
I was thinking of using sed to replace instances of double tab with blank,
sed 's/\t\t//g'
All of the examples... (2 Replies)
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm trying to remove all of the empty lines at the end of a Tab delimited file. They have no data just tabs.
I've tried may things, here are a couple:
sed /^\t.\t/d File1 > File2
sed /^\t{44}/d File1 > File2
What am I missing? (9 Replies)
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How do I use awk to log transform the fifth column of a tab-delimited text file? Thanks! (1 Reply)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a text file that made using text editor in Ubuntu. However the text file is not being recognized as space or tab delimited, the formatting seems to be messed up. How can I convert the text file into tab delimited format? (3 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I want to add a new column to a tab delimited text file. It will be the first column and it will just be 1's. How do I go about doing that? Thanks! (1 Reply)
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I have a tab limited text file with 10000+ columns. I want to delete columns 6 through 23, how do I go about doing that? Thanks! (1 Reply)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello Gurus,
I have a text file containing nearly 12,000 tab delimited characters with 4000 rows. If the file size is small, excel can convert the text into coloumns. However, the file that I have is very big. Can some body help me in solving this problem?
The input file example,
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All
I wanted to know how to effectively delete some columns in a large tab delimited file.
I have a file that contains 5 columns and almost 100,000 rows
3456 f g t t
3456 g h
456 f h
4567 f g h z
345 f g
567 h j k lThis is a very large data file and tab delimited.
I need... (2 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a large text-file with tab-delimited genetic data that looks like:
KSC112 KSC234 0 0 1 1 A G C T
I simply wan to delete the first column, but since the file has 600 000 columns, it is not possible with awk (seems to be limited at 32k columns).
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