So I just want to make sure I follow this. You converted the numbering of lines to base 44 (that's what the NR % 44 was, I gather) so that you could delete any line with a ones place of 9 or under? What's the 0 {next} 1 bit, if you don't mind my asking?
Also, thanks very much for your help!
Is there an easy way to delete the first so many lines in a log file?
like I have a log file that has 10000 lines, i want to just get rid of the first 9000. (2 Replies)
Hi
I have a file & always I need to remove or delete last 2 lines from that file. So in a file if I have 10 lines then it should return me first 8 lines.
Can someone help me? (4 Replies)
HI
I'm looking to delete lines ending with .tk from below data file
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abc.tk
mgm.tk
dtk
mgmstk
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I have written below code
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sed '/.tk *$/d' dat_file.txt > temp.txt
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But its deleting all the lines ending with tk. I need to delete only the lines ending .tk
my... (5 Replies)
We have a server that logs transactions to a file. I want to write a script that will delete the first 50 lines of the file daily without renameing the file or moving the file. (8 Replies)
Good morning!!! Im a newbie with shell programing and i was wondering if there is a way to delete certain new lines from a file, here is an example of my current file:
>seq_0
GTGAGATTGCTAATGAGCTGCTTTTAGGGGGCGTGTTGTGCTTGCTTTCC
AACTTTTCTAGATTGATTCTACGCTGCCTCCAGCAGCCACCCCTCCCATC... (11 Replies)
Hi,
I have a big (2.7 GB) text file. Each lines has '|' saperator to saperate each columns.
I want to delete those lines which has text like '|0|0|0|0|0'
I tried:
sed '/|0|0|0|0|0/d' test.txt
Unfortunately, it scans the file but does nothing.
file content sample:... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I have a file filled with dates, such as:
04-08-2011 message
04-08-2011 message
03-08-2011 message
01-08-2011 message
31-07-2011 message
24-07-2011 message
15-07-2011 message
13-12-2008 message
26-11-2007 message
And I want to delete those lines whose date is older than 10... (5 Replies)
Hi Guys ,
I have two files say a1 and a2 having following contents
a1
dag
wfd
a2
dag
wfd
chire
hcm
I want to delete only the lines in a2 which are in a1 and final output of a2 should be
a2
chire
hcm (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Pradeep_1990
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.8.4 2005-05-03 SHELL-QUOTE(1p)