Need to remove a selection of rows separated by blank lines
hello, here is an example:
i wish to remove the first block of data, it is separated by blank lines above and below this. Please note that the data will constantly change with a new file so i am looking for a generic command not something that picks up specific numbers. I am relatively new to linux and i cant seem to figure out the exact command that needs to be used.
I really hope someone can help me with this. I have several php files from a forum that I run, that now for some reason have blank lines after every line. Is there an easy way to make a script that does the following:
* If there are consecutive blank lines, delete all of them except one.
* If... (9 Replies)
Hello All, I am having a problem in automating my UNIX Script to remove the blank spaces in between records. When I incorporate it into my script, the output file is deleting the whole content :confused:
Basically this is what I am trying to do:
File contains data like this:... (14 Replies)
Hi,
I need help to remove blank rows at the end of file.
Sample data:
"Oslo, Symra kino",Oslo,130-7,Symra 1,130-7-91
"Tønsberg, Brygga Kino SF",Tønsberg,202-1,Tønsberg SF 4,202-1-4
,,,,
,,,,
,,,,
,,,,
Expected data:
"Oslo, Symra kino",Oslo,130-7,Symra 1,130-7-91
"Tønsberg, Brygga... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I'm not a expert in shell programming, so i've come here to take help from u gurus.
I'm trying to tailor a csv file that i got to make it work for the LOAD FROM command.
I've a datatable csv of the below format -
--in file format
xx,xx,xx ,xx , , , , ,,xx,
xxxx,, ,, xxx,... (11 Replies)
Hi,
I am facing a problem related to removing blank lines from a text document.
Input
Error 17-05-2011 11:01:15 VisualSVN Server 2.1 1001
The following information was included with the event:
line3
line4
Error 17-05-2011 11:00:25 VisualSVN Server 2.1 ... (13 Replies)
When I 'vi' my test file I see some blank lines. However once I do :set list to display hidden characters, I see the empty lines literally like this:
^I$
How do I remove them? I cannot find a regex to match them. (3 Replies)
Hello,
I have some data in a text file where fields are separated by blank lines. There are only 6 fields however some fields have several lines of data as I will explain. Also data in a particular field is not consistently the same size but does end on a blank line. The first field start with... (6 Replies)
I am working on an assignment to pull all the records from excel sheet programatically and use the data for further calculations.
In this process, I first defined 10 records in excel sheet and executed the below code.
In the first run it is OK. But after deleting last few rows in excel sheet and... (0 Replies)
I've spent the past hour trying different things and googling for this solution and cannot find the answer. Found variations of this, but not this exact thing.
I have the following text, which is the output from our mainframe. Each field is on a separate line, with a blank line between each... (7 Replies)
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fmt
fmt(1) User Commands fmt(1)NAME
fmt - simple text formatters
SYNOPSIS
fmt [-cs] [-w width | -width] [inputfile...]
DESCRIPTION
fmt is a simple text formatter that fills and joins lines to produce output lines of (up to) the number of characters specified in the -w
width option. The default width is 72. fmt concatenates the inputfiles listed as arguments. If none are given, fmt formats text from the
standard input.
Blank lines are preserved in the output, as is the spacing between words. fmt does not fill nor split lines beginning with a `.' (dot), for
compatibility with
nroff(1). Nor does it fill or split a set of contiguous non-blank lines which is determined to be a mail header, the first line of which
must begin with "From".
Indentation is preserved in the output, and input lines with differing indentation are not joined (unless -c is used).
fmt can also be used as an in-line text filter for vi(1). The vi command:
!}fmt
reformats the text between the cursor location and the end of the paragraph.
OPTIONS -c Crown margin mode. Preserve the indentation of the first two lines within a paragraph, and align the left margin of
each subsequent line with that of the second line. This is useful for tagged paragraphs.
-s Split lines only. Do not join short lines to form longer ones. This prevents sample lines of code, and other such
formatted text, from being unduly combined.
-w width | -width Fill output lines to up to width columns.
OPERANDS
inputfile Input file.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for a description of the LC_CTYPE environment variable that affects the execution of fmt.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO nroff(1), vi(1), attributes(5), environ(5)NOTES
The -width option is acceptable for BSD compatibility, but it may go away in future releases.
SunOS 5.10 9 May 1997 fmt(1)