Summary: Hi, How to convert a text file (which is tab delimited) into an .xls file. in unix scripting. I tired renaming the extension of .txt into .xls. It see...
Summary: Hi, I am doing some records processing in a text file. I would like to know how can I read the lines repeatedly until the EOF character is reach? All ...
Summary: Hi all, I have a text file and I want to clean up the file by only print those lines start with the date. Is there anyway I can do that? Code: [?...
Summary: I need to remove trailing blanks from a text file . Each line is long 1024 characters and only the first part (about 100 char) is meaningful and I hav...
Summary: I have a customer with SCO Unix and Windows . He has is a program that can create a large textfile. What he will use this program for is to create ...
Summary: Hello, I have a text file in following format. Separate blocks of data are there, they are separated by a blank line. There are NO blanks in between d...
Summary: Hi, I am a unix newbie. I am trying the following to search for a number of words in a text file (@unix command prompt), but the entire file contents ...
Summary: Hi, I'm having problem writing to a log file. Appreciate if anyone can help. I'm running an application thru a script ("A") with input and output file...
Summary: Hi, I would like to know how to convert a text file in UNIX to HTML using awk? For example, my file has the following contents : Name Age A 23...
Summary: Hi all, I was editing my c++ file in sun-solaris and then when i ran the make file i got an error saying some junk char not defined in the file,later ...
Summary: I'm running the command in Unix: % ls -lR > filename to list all contents of subdirectories and dump the list to a text file. Apparently it doesnt wor...
Summary: Hi guys, I am very new to the shell scripting .... I have a text file with 5 columns and all colums are seperated by some spI need to capture all indi...
Summary: I need to write a shell script to mail to a list of email-ids. Email-ids are stored in a text file with 1 id in a line. Need to read each line (till E...
Summary: Hi all, I'm working on Exceed (unix machine) from Windows. With a grep command on a file I build a new text file in UNIX in wich every line is of type...
Summary: I have converted a script from DOS to the BASH shell, and the script is perfoming some very strange things: Here is the script: #! /bin/bash # Being f...
Summary: I have a text file call counter.txt. It has only one line with the number 567. I want to write a very simple script file to replace the number by 1 ev...
Summary: Ultimatly Perl or Python would be better suited for such a task. I typically use Perl. They are both more extensible and powerful. But in computing yo...
Summary: Thanks a lot for your help! The max size of the binary file (Dump file) could be about 0.5 MByte. This is a packed binary data file. The output is as...
Summary: Hi, Say I have a text file (file1.txt) with the following contents: "My emailaddress is address@domain.com" I want to extract the emailaddress from th...
Summary: I need help with a script that does the following operation. A text file contains the following information. AAA111 a line of some text another line o...
Summary: I can easily map a win98 drive to a folder on our sco unix openserver 5.05 box but I want to go in the other direction. I want my unix app to output d...
Summary: I was given a task to convert a file from a DBS (extension) to a text file. I know the file is from the Unix box but I do not know which database plat...