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shary · #1 (**permalink**) 1 Week Ago

Dear Experts ,

I have 15 files and each files contains the data as mentioned below
fileA
name company salary
job location nationality
12121 234234 13123
12121 234234 13123
12121 234234 13123
12121 234234 13123
12121 234234 13123
12121 234234 13123
12121 234234 13123
12121 234234 13123
12121 234234 13123
sports fottbal basket ball
total=888
I need a script which can remove the first two lines and the last two lines of each files .means i need a for loop for so that i cann process the 15 files.
the data which should remain is as mentioned below.
12121 234234 13123
12121 234234 13123
12121 234234 13123
12121 234234 13123
12121 234234 13123
12121 234234 13123
12121 234234 13123
12121 234234 13123
12121 234234 13123

thanks

Franklin52 · #2 (**permalink**) 1 Week Ago

Something like:

Code:

awk '$1 ~ /^[0-9]/{print}'

Regards

aju_kup · #3 (**permalink**) 1 Week Ago

Code:

grep "^[0-9].*" <filenames>

royalibrahim · #4 (**permalink**) 1 Week Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by aju_kup

Code:

grep "^[0-9].*" <filenames>

Hi, whether the above one or this one:

Code:

grep "^[0-9][0-9]*" <filenames>

is the correct regular expression to filter the lines that contain only numeric values (numbers)?? or both are same (can be used interchangeably)?

aju_kup · #5 (**permalink**) 1 Week Ago

Code:

grep "^[0-9][0-9]*" <filenames>

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