Hello,
I am having trouble extracting a specific line from a file when the line number is known. My first attempt involved grep -n 'hi' (the word 'hi will always be there) to get the line number before the line that I actually want (line 4).
Extra Notes:
-I am working in a bash script.
-The file size is always variable, so I couldn't use head or tail.
#file that I am evaluating
I have a shell script and want to assign a value to a variable. The value is the line exctrated from a file using the line number. The line number it is not fix, and could change any time.
I have tried sed, awk, head .. See my script
# Get randome line number from the file
#selectedline = `awk... (1 Reply)
Hi Everybody,
I am trying to write a script that will get some perticuler data from a file and redirect to a file.
My Question is,
I have a Very huge file,In that file I have my required data is started from 25th line and it will ends in 100th line.
I know the line numbers, I need to get all... (9 Replies)
Hi
I want to extract certain text between two line numbers like
23234234324 and
54446655567567
How do I do this with a simple sed or awk command?
Thank you.
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found it:
sed -n '#1,#2p'... (1 Reply)
Hello Everyone.
I am trying to display contains of a file from a specific line to a specific line(let say, from line number 3 to line number 5). For this I got the shell script as shown below:
if ; then
if ; then
tail +$1 $3 | head -n $2
else
... (5 Replies)
FOLKS ,
i have a text file that is generated automatically of an another korn shell script, i want to bring in the fifth line of the text file in to my korn shell script and look for a particular word in the line . Can you all share some thoughts on this one.
thanks...
Venu (3 Replies)
Dear all,
I am trying to extract a number from a line in one file (task 1), duplicate another file (task 2) and replace all instances of the strings 300, in duplicated with the extracted number (task 3). Here is what I have tried so far:
for ((k=1;k<4;k++)); do
temp=`sed -n "${k}p"... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I search all forum, but I can not find solutions of my problem :(
I have multiple files (5000 files), inside there is this data :
FILE 1:
1195.921 -898.995 0.750312E-02-0.497526E-02 0.195382E-05 0.609417E-05
-2021.287 1305.479-0.819754E-02 0.107572E-01 0.313018E-05 0.885066E-05
... (15 Replies)
I have a LOG file which looks like this
Import started at: Mon Jul 23 02:13:01 EDT 2012
Initialization completed in 2.146 seconds.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
Import summary for Import item: PolicyInformation... (8 Replies)
In the below perl code I am using tags within each line to extract certain information. The tags that are used are:
STB >0.8 is STRAND BIAS otherwise GOOD
FDP is the second number
GO towards the end of the line is read into an array and the value returned is outputed, in the first line that... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: cmccabe
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logtop
LOGTOP(1) General Commands Manual LOGTOP(1)NAME
logtop - Realtime log line rate analyser
SYNOPSIS
logtop [OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION
logtop is a System Administrator tool analyzing line rate on stdin.
It reads on stdin and print a constantly updated result
displaying, in columns:
Line number, count, frequency, and the actual line.
$ tail -f FILE | logtop
is the friendly version of:
$ watch 'tail FILE | sort | uniq -c | sort -gr'
OPTIONS -s, --size=K
Only keep K lines in memory, instead of 10000.
-q, --quiet
Do not display a live view of the data, only display a top at exit.
-l, --line-by-line=K
Print result line by line, in a machine friendly format, K is the number of result to print per line.
Line by line format is : [%d %f %s ]*
%d : Number of occurences
%f : Frequency of apparition
%s : String (Control chars replaced by dots.
-i, --interval=K
Interval between graphical updates, in seconds. Defaults to 1.
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
-v, --version
Show version of program.
EXAMPLES
Here are some logtop usage examples.
tail -f cache.log | grep -o "HIT|MISS" | logtop
Realtime hit / miss ratio on some caching software log file.
tail -f access.log | cut -d' ' -f1 | logtop -s 10000
Realtime most querying IPs on your server, as long as log lines in access.log starts with the client IP.
tail -f access.log | cut -d' ' -f7 | logtop -s 10000
Realtime most requested web pages in a NCSA like log file.
cat auth.log | grep -v "CRON" | grep -o ": .*" | logtop -q -s 100000
Display a one-shot simple analyse of your auth.log.
SEE ALSO watch(1)AUTHOR
logtop was written by Julien Palard.
This manual page was written by Julien Palard <julien@palard.fr>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).
April 16, 2011 LOGTOP(1)