General :: Awk Gsub() Command - String (column) Manipulation - Replace The Value Of The $1 Column In The Awk Print String?
Mar 7, 2010
i use this script to get the time and date of back and fourth transactions for a particular execution id. I use a substr command on the 5th column to to cut the milli seconds off the time value. - otherwise the times would look like 08:30:04.235
1. Given a string, row no. and col. no., I want to display it in the screen appropriately. how to do this? 2. How can I find the cpu processing time taken in carrying out the sorting task (any sorting program)?
I've been trying to understand pthread in C a little better. So I made a simple program that takes in a string from the command line and creates a thread to print the string. I've looked online and copied the basic concepts but there are something things I'm confused about. The programs works just fine, but I have questions. Here's what I have so far.
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One thing I'd like to know is why the 3rd argument in the pthread_create function which is my SendMessage function needs to be typecasted to a void pointer and then send the address of the function. Also as for the 4th argument, I would see typecasting to void pointer in some of the pthread examples I saw online, but in my case I'm passing a char pointer, would this be correct? In which case would I ever want to pass a void pointer?
Do I need a pthread_exit(NULL) in my main and in the SendMessage function? If so, why? I added the sleep() function so that I could let the pthread_exit function in my SendMessage function execute first. I simply saw that the online examples on pthread had pthread_exit() in both locations.
I have a text file and I need to replace the 3rd column of that file from row 3 to the end of the file with a column which I have stored in the different text file. For e.g the original file is like given below:
So lets say I wanna replace column 3 from row 3 to row 7 with a data from another file which is given below: 54.00 239.00 53.00 237.00 52.00 165.00 235.0
So the final output file should be like this: a.txt nobla 6 gadf 72.500 1.600 1.800 .850 5.250 8.540 A# rad ang ht prf bk sd dia type blade 1 0.3081 54.00 1.9235 -17.50 18.00 -3.00 0.6250 1613 1 2 0.6509 239.00 2.0316 -17.50 18.00 -3.00 0.6250 1613 4 3 1.0128 53.00 2.1457 -17.50 18.00 -3.00 0.6250 1616 1 4 1.3748 237.00 2.2598 -17.50 18.00 -3.00 0.6250 1616 4 5 1.6986 52.00 2.3619 -17.50 18.00 -3.00 0.6250 1616 1 6 1.9347 165.00 2.4364 -17.51 18.00 -3.00 0.6250 1616 5 7 2.1327 235.00 2.4988 -17.34 18.00 -3.00 0.6250 1616 4
And I will post the code whatever i have tried soon. I started with awk and cut commands..but never got it to work and also tried PASTE command too.
I want to replace a string of directory path in a string to empty:
Code:
But this doesnt seem to give me the desired thing:
Code:
This gives the desired outcome, but its specific, i need a variable in the sed not a string. And if I replace STRING="/mnt/sda1/record/$dd/" then I cant use it for something else, cause its has all the weird backslashes now.
I have a line in a text file that has 40 random characters within a tag and i want to change the characters to a new set of 40 random characters (alphanumeric a-z 0-9 etc)
The line in the text file looks like this:
Quote:
How would i go about doing that?
Also second question same as the above but how would i remove them instead of replacing them?
I want to know the Perl command to replace a string by pointing the line number. I know how to replace a string without pointing a line number but I am in need to replace only the two matching string in a file
If I have a word in a text file and I need to replace it by another word (for example, i need to replace abc by fff) so what is the command I can type it?
Moving right along, I have a folder of MP3 files containing various Movie sound tracks and scores. I'm using Audio Tag Tool to tag all the files at once with an "Artist" of "Soundtrack", and to inherit the "Title" tag from the file name. After that, I will rename all the files (Using Audio Tag Tool -- awesome program, btw) with the format "<Artist> - <Title>.mp3"
The problem, is many of my files already contain the string "Soundtrack", which would be redundant. I happen to be a perfectionist, so I'm unable to ignore it and move on. Hence my question to you fine folk: I want to delete all instances of "soundtrack" (-i case irrelevant) in the filenames before I go through the above steps. But, its not quite that simple. This is a sample of some of the file names:
I have a string like $(SOMETHING) and want to remove '(' and ')' in a script file. How can I do that? I read that sed command is a filtering utility but don't know how to use it.
I would like to make a file with all these data in one column, like
a1 a2 . .
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Can it be done with awk or some other command? Also, is it possible then do add another column in front of this one with numbers of the lines (for every previous column), like
I wanted to find and replace a string from a perl file. I have written a script in bash which runs the following command.
perl -pi -e "s/$findstring/$replacestring/" testfile where as $findstring = print F_WC_TMP"$line "; and $replaceString = $line = join ' ', split ' ', $line; print F_WC_TMP"$line ";
But when I am running the above command, i think it is replacing the $findstring with the above mentioned string and hence it contains a $line, it is looking for the variable $line and not finding the exact string. I am confused about how to search for a string that contains $ in it and replace it with another $string.
1. when we run od command it displays octal values. But the first column will be always 000000. after that the actual file contents are displayed. Can anyone tell the meaning of that.
2. When we run ls -l command, in the first line of the output, we can see some integer value. What is the significance of that value.
I'd like a sed command to replace all decimal values greater than 0.5 with nothing in a tab delimited text file.
EX:
There would be one tab before 0.301 and two tabs after it. This way when you paste the text into an excel spreadsheet, there are empty cells where you deleted values.
I thought the sed command would be something like:
But this will delete everything.
What I need is something that will start deleting when it sees 0.[5-9] and stop when it reaches a tab. I know you can use [^character]+ to do this, but it doesn't seem to work with a TAB as the character.
Another idea I had would be to have sed replace from 0.[5-9] to 0. and replace with a tab + 0. But I also cant get [^0.]+ to work as it only works with single characters.
I am trying to replace the first number in a string at the end of the line with the word that matches that number. for example i want to replace 546215 to be five-46215. The command that I have tried is
I am having difficulty getting sed to replace a string of text in an XML file, despite the fact that I have no trouble using grep to find that same string. Since the new string and old string to be replaced contain a lot of special characters, I thought it best to store them in variables as opposed to using a slew of backslashes:
After hours (literally) of searching the web and reading man pages, I think I've come up with the following:Code:find . -exec grep 'path/to/file' -print | xargs -0 -I new_path mv {this is where I get confused}So my code above is incomplete, obviously. In order to finish replacing the string, I need to mv the new file into the old file's spot. How do I do this, by incorporating it into my line of code?
I have large text files with space delimited strings (2-5). The strings can contain "'" or "-". I'd like to replace say the second space with a pipe. What's the best way to go? Using sed I was thinking of this:
I need to replace a string in a file(startup.sh) using a script(parser.sh). After running parser.sh startup.sh should be filled with nfs path like /home/vimal etc but im getting error since path contains /. how to remove this.
But the problem is that in this case i just wanted to append "/home/dest" for which I could easily escape "/" with just two "", but I wonder if i have a long path like "/a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h/i/j" I will have to escape so many /. Is there any other way by which I can avoid escaping forward slash.
I tried following:
But receiving follo error
Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 1, near "s/destination-path=/'destination-path=/home" syntax error at -e line 1, near "s/destination-path=/'destination-path=/home" Bad name after dest' at -e line 1. tried with enclosing in double quotes as well but in vain
