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# 1  
Old 03-13-2019
Shift record from one position to another
Hi All,

I have a file and it is a fixed length file. I want to move the values from 42,6 ( where 6 is length) to the 36th position

Code:
Original file:
00000100000100000100000100000100001      000870                                                                  
00001000001000001000001000001000001      000879                                                                                  
09000001000001000001000001000001001      001818                                                             
29000020900000100000100000100000001      001816                                           
29000020900000100000100000100000001      001817
Expected : 
00000100000100000100000100000100001000870                                                                  
00001000001000001000001000001000001000879                                                                                  
09000001000001000001000001000001001001818                                                             
29000020900000100000100000100000001001816                                           
29000020900000100000100000100000001001817

Things I have tried.
I am doing a cut on 42,6 and storing it in temp file then doing cut on 1,36 and the merging the file. Not working

Code:
cut -c1-36 file1
cut c46-52  file2

join file1 file2 > file3 -- not giving right result
Paste -s  file1 file2 -- giving me all result in one line formate
cat file1 file2 --->appending the file at end

Thanks in advance
# 2  
Old 03-13-2019
Try this

Code:
sed 's/      //g' file1 > output.file

--- Post updated at 05:47 AM ---

Try below :-

Code:
sed 's/      //g' file1 > output.file

Code:
tr -d ' ' <file1 > output.file


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Last edited by RudiC; 03-13-2019 at 09:38 AM.. Reason: Added CODE tags.
# 3  
Old 03-13-2019
Thanks for the input . I should have been more clear. This sed will convert all blank space to non blank. There is a change that other position can be blank. I need to move these only based on position
# 4  
Old 03-13-2019
cut

Code:
cut -c1-35,42- data.txt

sed
Code:
sed -re 's/(.{35}).{6}/\1/' data.txt

Perl

Code:
perl -pe 's/^(.{35}).{6}/$1/' data.txt

GNU(!) awk

Code:
awk 'match($0,/^(.{35}).{6}(.*)/,res){print res[1] res[2]}' data.txt

Last edited by stomp; 03-13-2019 at 09:43 AM..
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