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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting move contents from one file to another based on line number or content Post 302423220 by robp2175 on Thursday 20th of May 2010 11:40:59 AM
Old 05-20-2010
move contents from one file to another based on line number or content
I want a script that will move everything beyond a certain line number or beyond a certain content word into another file.
For example, if file A has this:
first line
second line
third line
forth line
fifth line
sixth line

I want to run a script that will move everything beyond the third line to the END of file B, OR it would be even better if the script will move everything beyond the specific words "third line" into file B. That way I could just put in some random characters where I want the cutoff to be and never have to worry about the line number. I am not very good at scripting and do not know where to start. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

podofopages

PODOFOPAGES(1)							    podofopages 						    PODOFOPAGES(1)

NAME

       podofopages - move and delete pages in a PDF document

SYNOPSIS

       podofopages [--delete] [--move] [inputfile] [outputfile]

DESCRIPTION

       podofopages  is one of the command line tools from the PoDoFo library that provide several useful operations to work with PDF files. It can
       move and delete pages in a PDF document.

OPTIONS

       --delete NUMBER

	      Deletes the page NUMBER (number is 0-based). The page will not really be deleted from the PDF. It is only removed from the so called
	      pagestree and therefore becomes hidden. The content of the page can still be retrieved from the document though.

       --move FROM TO

	      Moves a page FROM TO in the document (FROM and TO are 0-based).

SEE ALSO

       podofobox(1), podofocountpages(1), podofocrop(1), podofoencrypt(1), podofoimg2pdf(1), podofoimgextract(1), podofoimpose(1), podofoincremen-
       talupdates(1), podofomerge(1), podofopdfinfo(1), podofotxt2pdf(1), podofotxtextract(1), podofouncompress(1), podofoxmp(1)

AUTHORS

       PoDoFo is written by Dominik Seichter <domseichter@web.de> and others.

       This manual page was written by Oleksandr Moskalenko <malex@debian.org> for the Debian Project (but may be used by others).

PoDoFo								    2010-12-09							    PODOFOPAGES(1)
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