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I have a file which has been created using two different systems and contains both the Unix and Dos file type. ie. line ending with \r in some cases and \r\n in the rest. How do I effectively convert this file into a DOS file and or Unix file? This is what I have am trying, but not able to...

I tried and got stuck so I was wondering if there was any new method out there I could learn. -Lazy

I have 3 file. Main file <File 1>, Reference File A <File 2> and B <File 3>. - There may or may not exist a Matching ID and Mailing Address in each reference file. - For each matching ID and Mailing address from reference file A and B, the set of records have to be &quot;moved&quot; to the...

I have this loop: for transpart in a b c d do while read jpegimage pageseg do dest=$psegdir/$pageseg if [ -f $extract/$jpegimage ] ; then echo ConvertImages... converting $jpegimage cat $extract/$jpegimage |jpegtopnm |pnmscale -xysize 2100 1680 |pgmtopbm -floyd...

Can you help me figure out how to write a awk / ksh or any unix script for this: Eg: File to move: filename0001.out Listing of files found at the location: filename0001.out filename0002.out filename0003.out Result: filename0001.out filename0002.out filename0003.out filename0004.out <-The...

I have the foll input file: ============= 1 TRUMAN - CLINTON 0 GEORGE ===========EOF For every 1st char, I have to do the following: if 1st char is - leave 1 line before. if 1st char is 0 leave 2 line before. This is the expected output. ============= 1 TRUMAN CLINTON GEORGE...

I am trying to pass an argument to a script and use that argument in an awk statement. Is there something missing in the code? Its not working! It is creating a file with blank extension. TIA -KAT #!/usr/bin/ksh if [ $# != 2 ] ;then echo &quot;usage: $0 argument&quot; exit fi...

Here is the problem with samples. Forget the &quot;position&quot; mentioned earlier. Consider this as input: ABCD 123456789 DERS 234234234 ERED 345634563 RTYR 343434343 TYUT 343434343 TERE 368876655 This is the expected output: ABCD 123456789 DERS 234234234 ERED 455634563 RTYR 343434343 Y...

I have a script that matches two fields (at position 7 length 20 and position 479 length 6) and inserts character '01' and '02' on subsequent matching records. Works fine so far. Now, I want to replace (say position 6) with 'Y' in the first record of the matching condition. ie. When I get to...

No! there are some characters that are made up to 2 chars and only one white space gets replaced. I tried that and it messes the fixed length field length of records.

How can I replace the non-printable characters with white spaces? This particular script only removes the non-printable chars.