1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Not sure how to do this exactly.. just want to take the first 100 lines of a file and cat it out into a second file. I know I can do a more on a file and > it into a different file, but how can I make it so only the first 100 lines get moved over? (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I want to cat a file with only show the line contain '/bin/bash' but don't show the line contain 'load' (don't show if the line contain 'load' and '/bin/bash' together), how to type in the command? thk a lot! (2 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Can anybody tell the difference between Difference between cat , cat > , cat >> and touch command in UNIX? Thanks (6 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, So I sorted my file as I was supposed to: sort -n -r -k 2 -k 1 file1 | uniq > file2 and when I wrote > cat file2 in the command line, I got what I was expecting, but in the script itself ... sort -n -r -k 2 -k 1 averages | uniq > temp cat file2 It wrote a whole... (21 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

how to cat a file by ignoring first line and last line (1 Reply)

6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

in bash: for i in `cat file` ; do echo $i done; how will i do this in perl ? (10 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

ok so I have a file on a website. this file is a plain text file i need to be able to update the contents of this file from any internet enabled unix box. does anyone have ideas on how it can be done, without using scp/ftp? i know wget can be used to download the file: wget... (3 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I am trying to read version from a web url like <url/daily-builds/sdk-3.2.v20140312170355-osx.zip> and download and store in my filesystem if its the latest. Kindly help me how to read version 3.2.v20140312170355 and compare same with a folder named similar in my directory and... (1 Reply)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I'm on a remote computer by SSH. How can I get the output of "cat file" into a file on the local computer? I cannot use scp, because it's blocked. something like: ssh root@remote_maschine "cat /file" > /locale_machine/file :rolleyes: (2 Replies)