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1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
hello
i have file with 100k records and each one has certain value that starts at 28th column and certain value that starts at 88th column
e.g. 1st file
<25>1234567 ..... <88> 8573785485
i have aditional file with values which are related to value that starts at 88th column of the... (1 Reply)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
i want find the character '-' in a file from position 284-298, if it occurs i need to replace it with 'O ' for the position in the file. How to do that using SED command.
thanks in advance,
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I am trying to replace all ^Z chars in my file to a space using the following command:
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But the above command is deleting all NULL in the file. Hence the field positions are being changed. Please let me know the reason, if anyone knows.
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
Greetings,
I have the following scenario, The contents of main file are like :
Unix|||||forum|||||||||||||||is||||||the||best
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ive tried doing
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi
i have a string var=abc.ghi.jkl.mno.pqr
now i need to replace .(dot) with _(underscore)
the result should be like "arresult=abc_def_ghi_jkl_mno_pqr"
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Can someone help me to write a script / command to read in a file, character by character, replace any unknown ASCII characters with space. then write out the file to a new filename/
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have rows in a file, in each row string starts with "A200819097564".
I want to replace the first character A with space.So the string looks like " 200819097564"
I tried "tr -s "A2008" " 2008""
But did not get the required outpit.
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Hi,
i would like substitute the words containing the character "-" by any other.
i've already tried the tr command: tr '\-' 'X', for example.
But, this command doesn't work. It gave this:
Original text:
-i abcd-fe
Result text:
Xi abcdXfe
Result desired:
-i abcdXfe
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