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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
All,
I used to use following command to replace specific location in a fixed width file.
Recently looks like my command stopped working as intended. We are on AIX unix.
awk 'function repl(s,f,t,v)
{ return substr(s,1,f-1) sprintf("%-*s", t-f+1, v) substr(s,t+1) }
NR<=10 {... (3 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have 2 fixed length files input#1 & input#2. I want to match the rows based on the value in position 37-50 in both files (pos 37-50 will have same value in both files).
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I need to split a fixed length file of 160 characters based on value of a column. Example:
ABC 456780001 DGDG SDFSF
BCD 444440002 SSSS TTTTT
ABC 777750003 HHHH UUUUU
THH 888880001 FFFF LLLLLL
HHH 999990002 GGGG OOOOO
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Gurus,
Thanks in advance...
I am new to writing shell scripting and help me out reading a flat file with fixed length.
I have a fixed length flat file with storename(lenth 6) , emailaddress(lenth 15), location(10). There is NO delimiters in that file.
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi to All,
Would you please help me.
I have a issue like in fixed format file there are 80 words should be there. but if file contains greater than 80 words then creates problem. so i have to trim file having more than 80 characters line through unix shell scripting. Please let me know how... (2 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
OK I am somewhat new to UNIX programming please see what you can do to help.
I have a flat file that is a fixed length file containing different records based on the 1st character of each line. The 1st number at the beginning of the line is the record number, in this case it's record #1.
I... (3 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I would like to make a script to read three variables (no fixed length or position) from a line and write them into a file, with fixed length and right-justified in each column. The fixed text (text1-text4) prior to the thee variables and the variables themselves are originally separated by spaces... (3 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Unix Champs,
I want to awk on a fixed length file.
Instead if the file was a delimited file, then I could have used -F and then could have easily done manipulation on the fields.
How do i do the same in case of fixed length file?
Thanks in Advance.
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to display df -h command out in proper format, how can I display
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am using the following command at the Unix prompt to make my 'infile' into a fixed width file of 100 characters.
awk '{printf "%-100s\n",$0}' infile > outfile
However, there are some records with a special character "©"
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