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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graphics::primitive::insets
Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)NAME
Graphics::Primitive::Insets - Space between things
DESCRIPTION
Graphics::Primitive::Insets represents the amount of space that surrounds something. This object can be used to represent either padding
or margins (in the CSS sense, one being inside the bounding box, the other being outside)
SYNOPSIS
use Graphics::Primitive::Insets;
my $insets = Graphics::Primitive::Insets->new({
top => 5,
bottom => 5,
left => 5,
right => 5
});
METHODS
Constructor
new Creates a new Graphics::Primitive::Insets.
Instance Methods
as_array
Return these insets as an array in the form of top, right, bottom and left.
bottom
Set/Get the inset from the bottom.
equal_to
Determine if these Insets are equal to another.
left
Set/Get the inset from the left.
right
Set/Get the inset from the right.
top Set/Get the inset from the top.
zero
Sets all the insets (top, left, bottom, right) to 0.
AUTHOR
Cory Watson, "<gphat@cpan.org>"
SEE ALSO perl(1)COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
Copyright 2008-2010 by Cory G Watson.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.12.3 2010-08-21 Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)