I want a command equivalent to
My input file contains
If i want to input file like this
I use
But if i want to duplicate lines for n no of times (for eg. 50)
i cant give like this
so i need a simpler command in sed or awk
Hi,
I am stuck with pattern matching.
I need to match a particular pattern several times in a same line and replace them.
for ex.,
I need to convert
(abc XY) (bvf ZY) bla bla
to
XY ZY bla bla
I tried..
s/\(+ (.+)\)/$1/gi
and it works (2 Replies)
This is probably simple but I would like to print every line in a file 5 times like this:
awk 'NR' mens_csv.tab
Dub Tank 53%Hemp/42%Cotton/5%Lycra Jersey Dark Green 0 $22.50
Dub Tank 53%Hemp/42%Cotton/5%Lycra Jersey Indigo Blue 0 $22.50
---------------
Dub... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to create an XML sitemap of our dynamic ecommerce sites SEO Friendly URLs and am trying to create the initial page listing.
I have a CSV file that looks like the following and need duplicate the lines based on a value which needs calculating.
... (2 Replies)
Hi everybody,
Fairly simple question here:
I need an awk, sed, or grep command that will find the same string multiple times on one line
needs to return all lines which contain .02 twice.
I do know the exact number of characters in between the two occurrences of .02 if that helps, all... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I had another question. I was wondering if there was a way to tab a line a variable number of times in tcsh. To go into details, I want to tab a line by how deep a file is in its path.
So here is an example code:
set filea=/blah1/blah2/blah3
set fileb=/blah1/blah2/blah3/blah4
set... (4 Replies)
Hi, I have a script that seems to run to completion when in the command-line, but when it is run using the cron, it seems to time out.
They both start and run fine, but on the CRON it stops prematurely.
The script hits an API every few seconds and grabs data.
Does anyone have any idea on... (4 Replies)
hi,
Is it possible to print a particular character n number of times in a line?
for example.
i am print the following line using echo command..
echo "files successfully moved"
i want to count the number of characters that are been displayed. i am doin it using
echo "files... (8 Replies)
I have a script that builds a database ~30 million lines, ~3.7 GB .cvs file. After multiple optimzations It takes about 62 min to bring in and parse all the files and used to take 10 min to remove duplicates until I was requested to add another column. I am using the highly optimized awk code:
awk... (34 Replies)
I have a file: file.txt, which contains the following data in it.
This is a file, my name is Karl, what is this process, karl is karl junior, file is a test file, file's name is file.txt
My name is not Karl, my name is Karl Joey
What is your name?
Do you know your name and... (3 Replies)
Remove duplicate lines which has been repeated 4 times attached test.txt
below command tried and not getting expect output.
for i in `cat test.txt | uniq`
do
num=`cat test.txt | grep $i | wc -l`
echo $i $num
done
test.txt
... (17 Replies)
Discussion started by: Kalia
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shtool-subst
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)