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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
Saying we have two files:
1. A "Reference File" whose content is "Variable Name": "Variable Value"
2. A "Model File" whose content is a model program in which I want to substitute "VariableName" with their respective value to produce a third file "Program File" which would be a... (4 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
input
"A","B","C,D","E","F"
"S","T","U,V","W","X"
"AA","BB","CC,DD","EEEE","FFF"
required output:
"A","B","C,D","C,D","F"
"S", T","U,V","U,V","X"
"AA","BB","CC,DD","CC,DD","FFF"
tried using awk but double quotes not preserving for every field. any help to solve this is much... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: khblts
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
I worked for almost a half-day for the replacement of some text automatically with script. But no success.
The problem is I have hundred of files, which need to be replaced with some new text. It's a painful work to work manually and it's so easy to do it wrong.
For example,
I... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: liuzhencc
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a column of numbers $2, I would like to add 360 to all numbers that are negative. This method seems a bit convoluted, and does not work (outputs 0):
BEGIN {
A=sprintf("%d", $2);
if(A<0) A=A+360;
BIN++;
}
END { for(A in BIN) print... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: chrisjorg
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
How would I print out the total amount through awk? I tried using
print "Total Amount: " $4+$4;
Would I have to do a for loop to get through everything? (2 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
i have a file with lines,
file.txt
-------
test is fun
testing is better
I need to replace 'test' to 'develop' and i used,
a=test
b=develop
sed "s,$a,$b,g" -------- but i see the word 'testing' is also replaced. Need some solution. Is there any way i could replace only 'test' ? (4 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
This seems like it should be an easy problem, but I'm a noob and I can't figure it out. I'm trying to use sed, but would be happy to use anything that does the job.
I am trying to trim off a fixed number of unknown characters from 2 different : delimited fields while keeping the intervening... (4 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I am struggling to find a solutions to this problem:
I have a directory full of files and I wish to:
read each line of each file and
if any one line in those files is longer than 72 characters I want to replace any tab characters with a space character.
Ive been... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: benackland
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi group,
I want to replace the occurance of a particular text in a paragraph.I tried with Sed,but Sed only displays the result on the screen.How can i update the changes in the original file???
The solution should be a one liner using awk and sed.
Thanks in advance. (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: bishnu.bhatta
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi
I have the following file that i need to run a sed command on
1<tab>running
2<tab>running
3<tab>running
4<tab>running
I want to be able to replace a line i.e the second one with '2<tab>failed'. As the first number is unique that can be used to search for the relevant line (using ^2 i... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: handak9
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