Hi, experts,
I would like to create a function that can calculate the total number of lines in a saved text file and delete specific lines in that particular file (I only want the last few lines). Hav anybody have the experience and giv me a hand in this? (9 Replies)
hello all
I have bunch of files containing lines of text that surrounding by <# .......#> tags
I like to delete this lines from the text files whiteout open the files , can it be done with sed ?
or other unix tool (perl mybe )? (2 Replies)
Hello,
Hello Firends,
I have file like below. I want to remove selected blocks say abc,pqr,lst. how can i remove those blocks from file.
zone abc {
blah
blah
blah }
zone xyz {
blah
blah
blah }
zone pqr {
blah
blah
blah } (4 Replies)
Hi everybody!
I need to delete several vertical lines in a huge text file.
It should work like the example below. Delete the vertical lines 2 and 8.
123456789
masldfjla
afsajfwel
sajfljsaf
safsarfrl
sajfeljwq
1345679
msldfja
asajfwl
sjfljsf
sfsarfl
sjfeljq
Is there a... (11 Replies)
Hello,
I have a group of text files with many lines in each file.
I need to delete all the lines in each and only leave 2 lines in each file. (3 Replies)
hi guys,
I have very large txt files (200GB) and just want to to delete the first two lines (headers). So far I used
sed -i '1,2d' infile.txtbut this command always takes extremely long as it writes all again. Is there a better way to do it (ie just to delete the lines without writing all... (2 Replies)
hey guys,
I tried searching but most 'search and replace' questions are related to one liners.
Say I have a file to be replaced that has the following:
$ cat testing.txt
TESTING
AAA
BBB
CCC
DDD
EEE
FFF
GGG
HHH
ENDTESTING
This is the input file: (3 Replies)
Hello,
I'm trying to figure out how to use sed or awk to delete single lines in a file. By single, I mean lines that are not touching any other lines (just one line with white space above and below).
Example:
one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
I want it to look like: (6 Replies)
I'm trying to remove a specific number of lines, above and below a specific line of text, highlighted in red:
<STMTTRN>
<TRNTYPE>CREDIT
<DTPOSTED>20151205000001
<TRNAMT>10
<FITID>667800001
<CHECKNUM>667800001
<MEMO>BALANCE
</STMTTRN>
<STMTTRN>
<TRNTYPE>DEBIT
<DTPOSTED>20151207000001... (8 Replies)
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insdelln
insdelln(3XCURSES) X/Open Curses Library Functions insdelln(3XCURSES)NAME
insdelln, winsdelln - insert/delete lines to/from the window
SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -I /usr/xpg4/include -L /usr/xpg4/lib
-R /usr/xpg4/lib -lcurses [ library... ]
c89 [ flag... ] file... -lcurses [ library... ]
#include <curses.h>
int insdelln(int n);
int winsdelln(WINDOW *win, int n);
PARAMETERS
n Is the number of lines to insert or delete (positive n inserts; negative n deletes).
win Is a pointer to the window in which to insert or delete a line.
DESCRIPTION
The insdelln() and winsdelln() functions insert or delete blank lines in stdscr or win, respectively. When n is positive, n lines are
added before the current line and the bottom n lines are lost; when n is negative, n lines are deleted starting with the current line,
the remaining lines are moved up, and the bottom n lines are cleared. The position of the cursor does not change.
RETURN VALUES
On success, these functions return OK. Otherwise, they return ERR.
ERRORS
None.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|MT-Level |Unsafe |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO deleteln(3XCURSES), insertln(3XCURSES), libcurses(3XCURSES), attributes(5), standards(5)SunOS 5.11 5 Jun 2002 insdelln(3XCURSES)