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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, suppose I have the following data:
albert music=top40 age=20
bob music=punk rock age=25
candy music=r n b age=22
dave music=mozart or bach only age=30
I want to extract and manipulate the music column but it's got spaces in it. How can I substitute the space with an underscore... (2 Replies)
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2. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers
I have a file of about 10k records and eace line is having an extra space of 5 byte at the end.. Iwant to remove the extra spaces at the end of each line.. Can someone please help me out.. I tried using sed command and its not working... can someone please help me out. (3 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a text file with a line of text that contains numbers and text formatted into groups. I need to extract the number that can be either 1,2 or 3 digits long. Then write it to a variable, but i need to remove any leading spaces in the number first.
I can get the numbers out but how to remove... (12 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I am creating a text file using perl. The first record I am writing as "$line" and all the other as "\n$line". At the end the file is having N number of lines. I am using this file for MLOAD (Teradata), which is reading N+1 lines in the file and failing.I am not able to find new line... (2 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
what is the sed command to remove the first two characters of every line of a text file?
each line of the text file has the same amount of characters, and they are ALL NUMERIC. there are hundreds of lines though.
for example,
>cat file1.txt
10081551
10081599
10082234
10082259
20081134... (20 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have been trying to remove some improperly formatted lines of output from fortran code I have been using. The problem is that I have some singularities in the math for some points that causes an incorrectly large value to be reported that exceeds the normal formating set in the code resulting in... (2 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have this problem that there are blank spaces in my text file... i want to remove them
line 1
line 2
line 3
I want to remove the space between line 2 and line 3... I tried sed... it work but it prints the whole text file at the command prompt which i dont want....
sde i tried was... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: bhagya2340
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I have searched and found various threads about removing spaces from a field within a text file. Unfortunately, I have not found exactly what I'm looking for, nor am I adept enough to modify what I've found into what I need.
I use the following command to remove the first line... (3 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I wanted to add specific text to each row in a text file containing three rows. Example:
0 8 7 6 5 5
7 8 9 0 7 9
7 8 9 0 1 2
And I want to add a 21 at the beginning of the first row, and blank spaces at the beginning of the second two rows. To get this:
21 0 8 7 6 5 5
7 8... (4 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
i need help..!!!!
i have one big text file estimate data file size 50 - 100GB with 70 Mega Rows.
on OS SUN Solaris version 8
How i can remove first line of the text file.
Please suggest me for solutions.
Thank you very much in advance:) (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: madoatz
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