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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
My sample file is variable length, with out any field delimiters. It has min of 18 chars length and the 'CRLF' is potentially between 12-14 chars. How do I replace this with a space? I still want to keep end of record, but just want to remove these new lines chars in the middle of the data.
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I've a file file_1.txt
ul.ln = 'Kb' AND (il.sum = 'ec7ccc92585adac28d9b1fb5eff0473f' or length('ec7ccc92585adac28d9b1fb5eff0473f') = 7);
il.sum = '20ddc1368d588dd0b0e37c41721e05b1' OR length('20ddc1368d588dd0b0e37c41721e05b1') = 7);
I need to replace the file like below -
ul.ln... (4 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a string like
Months=jan feb mar april x y ..
Here the number of fields in Months is not definite
I need to extract each field in the Months string and pass it to awk . Don't want to use for in since it is a loop . How can i do it (2 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all,
source file looks like this:
cat toto.txt
NAME)
VAR1=tata
OPT4=toto
USER=blabla
TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/Hongkong
OTHEROPT=something
;;
NAME2)
VAR1=tata
OPT4=toto
USER=blabla
TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/Hongkong
SOMETHING=else
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys
I am having this strange issue.Well my requirement is like below
Compare two values between flat file and oracle DB
Via perl script I am easily getting the rowcount
Now I connect sql plus via perl and the column value that returns is string
my $sqlplus_settings = '';
my... (7 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Can someone tell me how to change the first column in a very large 17k line file from a random 10 digit numeric value to a non numeric value. The format of lines in the file is:
1702938475,SNU022,201004
the first 10 numbers always begin with 170 (6 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I am trying to find the best way of making a change to 1 char in a string, the string can be between 1 and 14 characters.
I am reading a line in from a file which contains
012341231231:2:102939283:NNN: Require :NBN:
012838238232:3:372932:NNN: Require :NNB:
I need to change 1 N or a... (8 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I really would appreciate some help with a bash script for some string manipulation on an SQL dump:
I'd like to be able to rename "sites/WHATEVER/files" to "sites/SOMETHINGELSE/files" within the sql dump.
This is quite easy with sed:
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
given a string passed to a program that supposed to be numeric and of a certain length say 8 digits - so say for e.g. need to verify this 01234567
How would I parse this string to validat it meet requirements
I tried to use * | sed /\(\{8})/
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
:confused: Does anyone know which command I can use to find out the length of a string held within a variable? (5 Replies)
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is a text formatter. Its input consists of the text to be out-
put, intermixed with formatting commands. A formatting command
is a line containing the control character followed by a two
character command name, and possibly one or more arguments. The
control character is initially . (dot). The formatted output is
produced on standard output. The formatting commands are listed
below, with being a number, being a character, and being a title.
A + before n means it may be signed, indicating a positive or
negative change from the current value. Initial values for where
relevant, are given in parentheses.
.ad Adjust right margin.
.ar Arabic page numbers.
.br Line break. Subsequent text will begin on a new line.
.bl n Insert n blank lines.
.bp +n Begin new page and number it n. No n means +1.
.cc c Control character is set to c.
.ce n Center the next n input lines.
.de zz Define a macro called zz. A line with .. ends definition.
.ds Double space the output. Same as .ls 2.
.ef t Even page footer title is set to t.
.eh t Even page header title is set to t.
.fi Begin filling output lines as full as possible.
.fo t Footer titles (even and odd) are set to t.
.hc c The character c (e.g., %) tells roff where hyphens are permitted.
.he t Header titles (even and odd) are set to t.
.hx Header titles are suppressed.
.hy n Hyphenation is done if n is 1, suppressed if it is 0. Default is 1.
.ig Ignore input lines until a line beginning with .. is found.
.in n Indent n spaces from the left margin; force line break.
.ix n Same as .in but continue filling output on current line.
.li n Literal text on next n lines. Copy to output unmodified.
.ll +n Line length (including indent) is set to n (65).
.ls +n Line spacing: n (1) is 1 for single spacing, 2 for double, etc.
.m1 n Insert n (2) blank lines between top of page and header.
.m2 n Insert n (2) blank lines between header and start of text.
.m3 n Insert n (1) blank lines between end of text and footer.
.m4 n Insert n (3) blank lines between footer and end of page.
.na No adjustment of the right margin.
.ne n Need n lines. If fewer are left, go to next page.
.nn +n The next n output lines are not numbered.
.n1 Number output lines in left margin starting at 1.
.n2 n Number output lines starting at n. If 0, stop numbering.
.ni +n Indent line numbers by n (0) spaces.
.nf No more filling of lines.
.nx f Switch input to file f.
.of t Odd page footer title is set to t.
.oh t Odd page header title is set to t.
.pa +n Page adjust by n (1). Same as .bp
.pl +n Paper length is n (66) lines.
.po +n Page offset. Each line is started with n (0) spaces.
.ro Page numbers are printed in Roman numerals.
.sk n Skip n pages (i.e., make them blank), starting with next one.
.sp n Insert n blank lines, except at top of page.
.ss Single spacing. Equivalent to .ls 1.
.ta Set tab stops, e.g., .ta 9 17 25 33 41 49 57 65 73 (default).
.tc c Tabs are expanded into c. Default is space.
.ti n Indent next line n spaces; then go back to previous indent.
.tr ab Translate a into b on output.
.ul n Underline the letters and numbers in the next n lines.