06-28-2008
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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
If I want to have a look at few lines of the file, how do I, what command to use.
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
This is truly dummy question.
I have a text file of 100 lines.
What unix commnad to extract line 20 to 40 and output it to another file?
Is it something cat or grep or >> ?
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Hi,
I am using the Korn shell script to display lines of the file. For example below:
outputfile=test.dat
-- display each line of the test.dat file
abcd 345
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so on...
I appreciate your time to find a command for displaying lines of the file on the log.
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have to grep on a few words in a file and then display the line containing those words and the line above it.
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abc xyz abc
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Test successful
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi!
I'm trying to create a shell script to parse a file which might have multiple lines matching a pattern (i.e. containing some word).
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All files have a similar format
Date:
Time:
User:
Message:
Miscellaneous:
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hell,
I want to grep certain word from file and display above 2 lines and after two lines.
Here is the content of sample file.
Mar 14, 2013 12:56:59 AM Agent.Agent SendTo
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys,
I want to echo last 5 lines of a file to a mail. My script getting continuously looped and not getting the output. can anyone help?
#!/bin/bash
read karthick;
tail -5 $karthick;
echo $karthick | mail -s "genius" someone@gmail.com
Thanks
NK (2 Replies)
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shtool-subst
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)
NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO
shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)