Like mentioned above, you will need to expand tabs. A tab character is a single character but uses the width of up to 8 characters. You can calculate the actual width of each tab yourself, but it's probably easier if you pipe the file through expand
write a shell script that accepts a file name starting and ending line numbers as arguments and displays all the lines between the given line numbers:b:.help is appreciated.thank you. (3 Replies)
I know this should be simple, but I've been manning sed awk grep and find and am stupidly stumped :(
I'm trying to use sed (or awk, find, etc) to find 4 characters on the second line of a file.txt 44-47 characters in. I can find lots of sed things for lines, but not characters. (4 Replies)
Hi,
I would like to know how to solve one of my problems using expert unix commands.
I have a file with occasional blank lines;
for example;
dertu
frthu
fghtu
frtty
frtgy
frgtui
frgtu
ghrye
frhutp
frjuf
I need to edit the file so that the file looks like this; (10 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file will 1000 lines.... I want to deleted some line in the file... like 800-850 lines i want to remove in that...
can somebody help me..?
thanks. (2 Replies)
hello everyone
my file contains many records, the following is a sample:
BEGIN
ASX1500000050002010120000000308450201012000177
ASX1100002000000201012000000038450201012000220
ASX1600100005000201012000000038450020101200177
ASX1900100006000201067000000058450020101200177... (2 Replies)
I'm trying to grep lines where the digits at the end of each line are greater than digits. Tried this but it will only allow me to specify 2 digits. Any ideas would greatly be appreciated. grep -i '\<\{3,4,5\}\>' file
---------- Post updated at 05:58 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:41... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
This might be a basic question... I need to write a script to find all/any Speacial/Null/Control Chars and Print Line Numbers from an input file.
Output something like
Null Characters in File Name at : Line Numbers
Line = Print the line
Control Characters in File Name at : Line... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
i want to write a shell script read below file line by line and want to exclude the lines which contains empty value for MOUNTPOINT field.
i am using centos 7 Operating system.
want to read below file.
# cat /tmp/d5
NAME="/dev/sda" TYPE="disk" SIZE="60G" OWNER="root"... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: balu1234
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nl
NL(1) FSF NL(1)NAME
nl - number lines of files
SYNOPSIS
nl [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Write each FILE to standard output, with line numbers added. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-b, --body-numbering=STYLE
use STYLE for numbering body lines
-d, --section-delimiter=CC
use CC for separating logical pages
-f, --footer-numbering=STYLE
use STYLE for numbering footer lines
-h, --header-numbering=STYLE
use STYLE for numbering header lines
-i, --page-increment=NUMBER
line number increment at each line
-l, --join-blank-lines=NUMBER
group of NUMBER empty lines counted as one
-n, --number-format=FORMAT
insert line numbers according to FORMAT
-p, --no-renumber
do not reset line numbers at logical pages
-s, --number-separator=STRING
add STRING after (possible) line number
-v, --first-page=NUMBER
first line number on each logical page
-w, --number-width=NUMBER
use NUMBER columns for line numbers
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
By default, selects -v1 -i1 -l1 -sTAB -w6 -nrn -hn -bt -fn. CC are two delimiter characters for separating logical pages, a missing second
character implies :. Type \ for . STYLE is one of:
a number all lines
t number only nonempty lines
n number no lines
pREGEXP
number only lines that contain a match for REGEXP
FORMAT is one of:
ln left justified, no leading zeros
rn right justified, no leading zeros
rz right justified, leading zeros
AUTHOR
Written by Scott Bartram and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for nl is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and nl programs are properly installed at your site, the com-
mand
info nl
should give you access to the complete manual.
nl (coreutils) 4.5.3 February 2003 NL(1)