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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I would like to copy the first and third char on each line of a file and place them in the 14h and 17th char positions. The file name is listed first and is 6 char's and the dir name is second and also same char size on each line.
The file has thousands of lines.
Initial... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: dmm
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I need to find new line characters in a file and their location in the file and print the results. can someone pleas help.
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Discussion started by: Kevin Tivoli
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3. Programming
hi to all,
i am writing a simple file program in C which has to take a string of length n as input and match that input string with first n character of the line in file. if it does not match it has to compare with first n characters of next line. i am finding it difficult to know how exactly to... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ntrikoti
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4. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers
I tried using below command
tr -cd "" < InputFile.xml > output.txt ============= This removes all the tabs/newline/extra spaces from a file
it successfully removed all the extra spaces,tabs and new line characters but then the complete file become one record. I want to retain one new line... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: saini
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Everyone,
i have a file 1.txt
<a><a"" dd>aaaaauweopriuew</f><">!(^)!</aa></ff>
<a><a"" dd>bbbbbuweopriuew</f><">!(^*)!</aa></ff>
i know i can use
perl -p -i -e "s/>aaaaa/aa/g" 1.txt
perl -p -i -e "s/>bbbbb/bb/g" 1.txt
to acheive only keep the first two characters of the five characters,... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: jimmy_y
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am having a file(1234.txt) downloaded from windows server (in Ascii format).However when i ftp this file to Unix server and try to work with it..i am unable to do anything.When i try to open the file using vi editor the file opens in the following format ...
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Discussion started by: appu2176
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a file with about 25 colums separated with '~', but few of the lines have extra tabs ('^') and new line characters ('$'). Is there a way I can delete those characters if they are anywhere before the 25th column in a line?
example:
CLUB000650;12345678;0087788667;NOOP MEMBER ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: rudoraj
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Friends
I have a file
like
sample1.txt
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10998909.txt
10898990.txt
1898772222.txt
8980000000000.txt
I need to take first 3 characters of each line in a file and i need to print it '
like loop
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Discussion started by: kittusri9
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello, Member or professional
need help how to count characters by line of file
Example of the file is here
cdr20080817164322811681txt
cdr20080817164322811txt
cdr20080817164322811683txt
cdr20080817164322811684txt
I want to count the characters by line of file . The output that I... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ooilinlove
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi there, Ive got a feeling this is quite complex but I have a Comma delimited file which is being transfered up to a mainframe and I have to get every column lining up , I need to add in characters to line it up (but different characters and in different positions based on what field/column it... (1 Reply)
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