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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have the following file I wanted to convert mutiple spaces to tab:
I tried cat filename | tr ' ' '\t' or sed 's/ */ /' FILE
but it looses the format
5557263102 5557263102 5552074858 5726310211 5557263102 5557263102
5557263103 5557263103 2142406768 ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: amir07
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file which contains the data lines like below.I want to remove the tab spaces at the end of each line.I have tried with the command sed 's/\+$//' file.but it does not work.Can anyone help me on this?
15022 15022 15022 15022 15022 15022
15023 15023 15023 15023 15023 ... (16 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
How to catch a two word keyword which may contain a new line(may include spaces or tab) in it.
for example there is a file a.txt.
$more a.txt
create view
as
(select from
.........
..........
( select
....
(
select
......
..
select only no (((
number
( select
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4. AIX
Dear Gurus
Can you please advise me on how to Replace all TAB characters with white spaces in a text file in AIX?
Either using vi or any utilities (2 Replies)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
my content:
samaccountname employeeid useraccountcontrol description
i want it to look like this:
"samaccountname","employeeid","useraccountcontrol","description" (2 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
I am trying to remove all tabspaces and all blankspaces from my file using sed & awk, but not getting proper code. Please help me out.
My file is like this (<b> means one blank space, <t> means one tab space)-
$ cat file
NARESH<b><b><b>KUMAR<t><t>PRADHAN... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: NARESH1302
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All
I am having problem in substitution of any number of spaces, or a combination of space and tab in between strings in the lines of text file. Is there any way out in Perl? Please help me.
e.g.,
Say the input is in the following format:-
XX yyy zzz... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: my_Perl
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm new to bash and want to know a simple sed, awk, or grep script that will find all instances of 2 or more spaces and convert them to a single tab. Thanks for the help in advance. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: jkandel
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I want to set my tab lenght to 4 spaces instead of 8.
And when i press tab instead of inserting tab it should insert 4 spaces.
if i do
set ts=4
this set tab=4. But this inserts tab.
Say suppose i copy the code from unix to texpad/wordpad.Textpad will interpret tab as 8 spaces.(I can set... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: pinnacle
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Folks, I am wondering if anyone solve this problem.
What I want to know is,
1. Delete all white spaces including leading blank space in each line (e.g. line 2), and replace such spaces by single tab except leading blank space
2. Then, align all columns to the right. But, output white space... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Jae
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