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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
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ACACCTCAT 129 | ACACCTCAT 0
ACACCTCATX 171 | ACACCTCATX 0
ACACRESRT 0 ACACRESRT 0
ACACRESRTX 0 ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: loktamann
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
My objective is to replace the 8th, 9th, 10th characters by 1 space per character (total 3 spaces) in a file.
I achieved this using following command:
sed 's/\(.\)/\1@/7;s/@\(...\)/ /' FileData.txt > FileData_UPDATED.txt
Another situation comes when I need to done same but excluding 1st... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: manishdivs
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi All,
I have a set of data as below :
XS012371378 Raj 23-09-12
SH128238948 Andrew 24-08-12
CH273712399 Walsh 12-10-12
JK7249923893 Nick 10-02-13
JP6383791389 Braslin 30-12-13
I want the first column to be extracted separately. I can get this using awk.
awk '{print $1}' file_name
... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Nand Kishor
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am trying to insert Inverted Commas around all the numeric values within a comma seperated string / variable.
1111,2222,3333,4444
I would like it to be:
'1111','2222','3333','4444'
Note - This string could have a differing amount of numeric values each time the variable is... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: RichZR
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello. I'm trying to insert text in various positions and I could only do that using pipes for each position.
Example:
cat file | sed -e 's#\(.\{5\}\)\(.*\)#\1:\2#g' | sed -e 's#\(.\{26\}\)\(.*\)#\1:\2#g'
Insert ":" at position 5 and 26.
it can be done in the same sentence, without using... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: </kida>
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am attempting to replace positions 44-46 with YYY if positions 48-50 = XXX.
awk -F "" '{if (substr($0,48,3)=="XXX") $44="YYY"}1' OFS="" $filename > $tempfile
But this is not working, 44-46 is still spaces in my tempfile instead of YYY. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: halplessProblem
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7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi
Can somebody help me with solution for this PLEASE?
I have a flat file and need to insert delimiters at fixed positions in all the lines so that I can easily convert into EXCEL with columns defined as per their width.
For Example
Here is the file
{
kkjhdhal
sdfewss
sdtereetyw... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: jd_mca
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a fixed width flatfile with 5 columns, i will load file from oracle database to the flatfile for every 15 min at the end of the file, i want to insert a record by calling a shell script for inserting a record.
please can any one help me.
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Discussion started by: limou
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
Newbie here. Need to convert a txt file to .csv format. There's no character to replace so not sure if I can use sed :confused: . The comma is to be inserted after every certain number of characters in each line...
Help!
Thanks. (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: mbelen
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