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Wow, now thats what I call terse. I'll have a play, thanks.

That pastes one file alongside the other. I'd like to pluck a single value from file 2 based on the line number of a pattern match from file1.

I have two files, 1 column each and both are n lines long, eg

-12
-11.836734693877551
-11.673469387755102
...

and

02
04
06
...

I'd like to pattern match line i in file 1, determine...

Hi,

I have a text file that is around 7Gb which is basically a matrix of numbers (FS is a space and RS is \n). I need the most efficient way of plucking out a number from a specified row and...

Cheers guys, I'll have a play with perl.

Hi,

I've searched and couldn't find anyone else with this problem. Is there anyway (preferably using ksh - but other script languages would do) that I can read in binary float data into a text...

Given a line of text in ksh:

string1 string2 string3 .....stringn

is there a way of automatically assigning each string to an array element? Or just different variables would do.

Thanks,
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Thanks guys and thanks for this ynixon, which is quite elegant and what I was looking for. I'm using:

awk '/phrase/ {system("command "$1" ");print $3" "$4}' file > output

...the only problem is...

Hi,

I need to awk some data from some text files, basic stuff, eg:

awk '/phrase/ {print $1,$2,$3}' file

Which will print columns 1 to 3 of all lines containing "phrase"

But what if I...

Wow, thanks everyone, plenty to play around with.

Thanks, but never used expr before, had a go, but dont really have the syntax, could you give me the whole line?

Did it with awk and cut but it was messy. Cant find a way to awk or cut the two...

Hi,

I'm using ksh and I'm trying to shorten a column of figures. For example, I'd like to turn:

3456789.9876 to 89.98
567.4956 to 67.49
4669493932.34564 to 32.34
...

Much appreciated.

This results in the error:

sed: -e expression #1, char 81: unknown option to `s'

Hi,

I have 2 sets of text files. I need to take a field from a certain line in set 1 and put it in the same place in set b. The line appears once per file, in different places but is a set...