Summary: What do you mean by: "There are other data fields to the left and to the right, but they don't need to be parsed." Without knowing the EXACT format of...
Summary: I was wondering if/how you can parse a variable to a function within a unix script (BASH). What I'm trying to do is print lines from my script to a fi...
Summary: I need to parse a simple text file of the following format. email@blah.com username1 email2@blah.com username2 email6@monkey.com username3 The fi...
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 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: Hi all, I should write a shell script able to parse a comma separated string. An examle: x,x,x,x,x The problem is that the number of different 'x' is ...
Summary: hello, how do i read a file, disregarding the comment texts? (/* */, //) example: text text text text /* comment comment comment comment text */ text...
Summary: Hi, I need to know the best way to parse a textfile that contains the following text 00010000001M 00010000001Q 00040000001M I would like to parse the ...
Summary: Hi All, Can someone suggest the way to parse the html file to look for specific text using perl? or any programming language I have abc.html file; whi...
Summary: i have the following code where i have to parse certain data from html and put it in excel sheet. The html is as ####################### <HTML> <...
Summary: Something like this should work... #!/bin/csh # # usage: getnum if ($#argv != 1) then echo "Usage: getnum " echo " where is a valid text file"...
Summary: I need to create a file (report) in UNIX HP-UX and email this report in a format such that MS Word is able to open it. So far I can't do this without ...
Summary: My guess is that the UNIX machine is displaying with a fixed-width font and Outlook is not. This will cause the columns to be misaligned. One option ...
Summary: I have this text file look like this: RE.txt /tmp root Jun 10 17:24 DE.txt /tmp/s1 lee Jul 29 2002 E.txt /tmp/sam root Jun 10 17:25 ft.txt /tmp...
Summary: I know enough here only to be dangerous, but need some help. I have a commercial SCO Unix program which is outputting data files with 4 fields, in ...
Summary: I have a customer (the one from the parsing and emailing text thread) that does not have SendMail or SMTP but has UUCP. In my research for that thr...
Summary: I would like to write a script that searches for a text string in a file and replaces it with another text string. The syntax could be something like ...
Summary: Hello, If i have the following in a unix script: echo "Enter the full path: \c" read PATH The user will input something like: /mike/hobbies/...
Summary: Hello people! Can anybody please tell me how you can globally insert words into a text file using vi?? I need to be able to insert the words 'echo dum...
Summary: I am using a sed commmand to replace a block of text over several lines. I do this with a start string and an end string to locate the entire block o...
Summary: How to use sed to extract the text I have a text file look like this: /home1/users/usr1/bill.txt /home1/users/usr2/bom.txt /tmp/cost.txt All filenam...
Summary: Hello, i've to read option between two points, like that : [AA] option1 = text option2 = text [/AA] i don't know read text which is multiline, i only ...