My experience has been that I have often received files that contain spaces and TABS in otherwise empty lines. I call these visually empty lines. Usually we want to get rid of these as well as lines which have no characters at all.
Here is what I usually use:
Here is a demonstration script:
Which produces:
Best wishes ... cheers, drl
What is the command to count lines in a files, but ignore blank lines and commented lines?
I have a file with 4 sections in it, and I want each section to be counted, not including the blank lines and comments... and then totalled at the end.
Here is an example of what I would like my... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I'm not a expert in shell programming, so i've come here to take help from u gurus.
I'm trying to tailor a csv file that i got to make it work for the LOAD FROM command.
I've a datatable csv of the below format -
--in file format
xx,xx,xx ,xx , , , , ,,xx,
xxxx,, ,, xxx,... (11 Replies)
Hi,
Consider a file named "testfile"
The contents of file are as below
first line added for test
second line added for test
third line added for test
fourth line added for test
fifth line added for test (5 Replies)
Hi.. I'm facing a trouble in replacing two blank lines in a file using shell script...
I used sed to search a line and insert two blank lines after the searchd line using the following sed command.
sed "/data/{G;G;}/" filename . In the file, after data tag, two lines got inserted blank lines..... (4 Replies)
I have a file like
blah
blah blah blah
this is the text I need,
which might be between 1-4 lines, but
always has a blank line above and below
it, and is at the end of the text file
the code tags don't show the trailing blank line. I started by deleting the last blank line with:
... (2 Replies)
So the tag for this forum says all newbies welcome...
All I want to do is go through my file and find lines which contain a given string of characters then replace these with a blank line. I really tried to find a simple command to do this but failed.
Here's what I did come up with though:
... (2 Replies)
Hi All
Need Help
I have a file with the below format (ABC.TXT) :
®¿¿ABCDHEJJSJJ|XCBJSKK01|M|7348974982790
HDFLJDKJSKJ|KJALKSD02|M|7378439274898
KJHSAJKHHJJ|LJDSAJKK03|F|9898982039999
(cont......)
I need to write a script where it will check for : blank lines (between rows,before... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I tried the following options but was unable to delete blank lines from file
Input file = temp.hash.txt
temp.hash.txt content
90
0
89.56
0
0
57575.4544
56.89 (9 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm looking for a way (sed or awk) to delete multiple lines between blank lines containing two patterns ex:
user: alpha
parameter_1 = 15
parameter_2 = 1
parameter_3 = 0
user: alpha
parameter_1 = 15
parameter_2 = 1
parameter_3 = 0
user: alpha
parameter_1 = 16... (3 Replies)
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look
LOOK(1) User Commands LOOK(1)NAME
look - display lines beginning with a given string
SYNOPSIS
look [options] string [file]
DESCRIPTION
The look utility displays any lines in file which contain string. As look performs a binary search, the lines in file must be sorted
(where sort(1) got the same options -d and/or -f that look is invoked with).
If file is not specified, the file /usr/share/dict/words is used, only alphanumeric characters are compared and the case of alphabetic
characters is ignored.
OPTIONS -a, --alternative
Use the alternative dictionary file.
-d, --alphanum
Use normal dictionary character set and order, i.e. only alphanumeric characters are compared. (This is on by default if no file is
specified.)
-f, --ignore-case
Ignore the case of alphabetic characters. (This is on by default if no file is specified.)
-t, --terminate character
Specify a string termination character, i.e. only the characters in string up to and including the first occurrence of character are
compared.
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.
-V, --version
Output version information and exit.
The look utility exits 0 if one or more lines were found and displayed, 1 if no lines were found, and >1 if an error occurred.
EXAMPLE
sort -d /etc/passwd -o /tmp/look.dict
look -t: root:foobar /tmp/look.dict
FILES
/usr/share/dict/words
the dictionary
/usr/share/dict/web2
the alternative dictionary
SEE ALSO grep(1), sort(1)COMPATIBILITY
The original manual page stated that tabs and blank characters participated in comparisons when the alphanum option was specified. This
was incorrect, and the current man page matches the historic implementation.
HISTORY
The look utility appeared in Version 7 AT&T Unix.
AVAILABILITY
The look command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
util-linux June 2011 LOOK(1)