Hi,
Could some one help me to get rid of visually blank lines from a file using shell or awk or sed (on Solaris machine)?
When I use grep grep -v ^$ inputfile >outputfile it removes some blank lines.. but it seems some tab plus space balnk lines remains.
thaen I used "grep -v '^[[:space:]]*$' outputfile>outputfile1 " but didn't help. the blank lines remains
Is there any other way exist ? looping or any thing.
I have attached the file with this that containing blank lines.
anyone know if it is possable to extract a subdirectory in a tar file.
IE
tarfile contains
parent dir
-sub dir A
-sub dir B
I want to extract sub dir B. (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I want to extract last modified, seen in ls -l command, of a file and then convert it into "YYYYMMDD" format.
Any help regarding would be helpful
Thanks in advance... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am very new to Unix script. Suppose i have a file with column header:
NAME1 NAME2 Address Tel
And I always need to make a file with column header:
ID NAME1 NAME2 EMail Address Tel
For the columns that do not exist in the file, I would still like to make a column with blank.
... (11 Replies)
Hi
i am writing a cron job. in this script i need to delete some line which is match with some pattern.
following code i written for deletion
sed '1,'$Max_LIneNo' d' myfile.txt >tempfile.tmp
mv tempfile.tmp myfile.txt
this command is working fine but the problem is that after this... (5 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)
Hello All,
I have a file with data as below. Each line consists of 21 fields. I am not able to load them back to the database.
50733339,"834","834 ","005010X279A1","N","Y","007977163","0001 ",30,"2110D ","EB ","EB007 ","2 ","Conditional Required Data Element Miss
ing... (3 Replies)
How to remove x lines form top and y lines form bottom.
This works, but like awk only cat file | head -n-y | awk 'NR>(x-1)'
so remove last 3 lines and 5 firstcat file | head -n-3 | awk 'NR>4' (5 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)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
plan9-grep
GREP(1) General Commands Manual GREP(1)NAME
grep, g - search a file for a pattern
SYNOPSIS
grep [ option ... ] pattern [ file ... ]
g [ option ... ] pattern [ file ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Grep searches the input files (standard input default) for lines that match the pattern, a regular expression as defined in regexp(7) with
the addition of a newline character as an alternative (substitute for |) with lowest precedence. Normally, each line matching the pattern
is `selected', and each selected line is copied to the standard output. The options are
-c Print only a count of matching lines.
-h Do not print file name tags (headers) with output lines.
-e The following argument is taken as a pattern. This option makes it easy to specify patterns that might confuse argument parsing,
such as -n.
-i Ignore alphabetic case distinctions. The implementation folds into lower case all letters in the pattern and input before interpre-
tation. Matched lines are printed in their original form.
-l (ell) Print the names of files with selected lines; don't print the lines.
-L Print the names of files with no selected lines; the converse of -l.
-n Mark each printed line with its line number counted in its file.
-s Produce no output, but return status.
-v Reverse: print lines that do not match the pattern.
-f The pattern argument is the name of a file containing regular expressions one per line.
-b Don't buffer the output: write each output line as soon as it is discovered.
Output lines are tagged by file name when there is more than one input file. (To force this tagging, include /dev/null as a file name
argument.)
Care should be taken when using the shell metacharacters $*[^|()= and newline in pattern; it is safest to enclose the entire expression in
single quotes '...'. An expression starting with '*' will treat the rest of the expression as literal characters.
G invokes grep with -n and forces tagging of output lines by file name. If no files are listed, it searches all files matching
*.C *.b *.c *.h *.m *.cc *.java *.cgi *.pl *.py *.tex *.ms
SOURCE
/src/cmd/grep
/bin/g
SEE ALSO ed(1), awk(1), sed(1), sam(1), regexp(7)DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is null if any lines are selected, or non-null when no lines are selected or an error occurs.
GREP(1)