vi has no way of doing what you want to do using a standard builtin command. However you can call an external utility such as awk from within vi using the ":" command as shown in the following example
Note the space between the "$" and "!" and the '\" in front of "%s" in the awk printf statement. Without the slash the word "files" is outputted instead of the expected field text.
Suppose we have the following file:
the following is the file contents after executing the above command
Last edited by fpmurphy; 10-28-2008 at 02:40 PM..
Reason: f
Could someone please help me with the following.
I'm trying to figure out how to delete two words within a specific file using sed.
The two words are directory and named.
I have tried the following:
sed '//d' sedfile
sed '//d' sedfile
both of these options do not work.....
... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I need help to delete a few words in every line in my file.
This is how the file look like:
VDC DQ 14900098,,,,157426.06849776753,786693.2919373367
10273032,,,,157525.49445429695,776574.5546672409
VDC DG ,10273033,,3er55,,149565.57096061576,801778.9379555212
AS174 892562,,,,,
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Hi All,
I have an input file a.txt which contains the following ::
08-08-09 1:00 PM 763763762 f00_unix1_server.txt
i Just need to delete all the words which is before f
Output ::
f00_unix1_server.txt
Thanks (4 Replies)
I'm hoping someone could help me out please :)
I have several .txt files with several hundred lines in each that look like this:
10241;</td><td>10241</td><td class="b">x2801;</td><td>2801</td><td>TEXT-1</td></tr>
10242;</td><td>10242</td><td... (4 Replies)
I have a file with words that begin with character #. Whenver that character is found that word should be deleted throughout the file. How do I do that in VIM.
e.g:
afkajfa ladfa ljafa #222222 kjafad ljl
afajkj kjlj uouu #44444 jlkj lkjl
Output should be
afkajfa ladfa ljafa kjafad... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I have a complex problem. I have a file in which words have been joined together:
Theboy ranslowly
I want to be able to correctly split the words using a lookup file in which all the words occur:
the
boy
ran
slowly
slow
put
child
ly
The lookup file which is meant for look up... (21 Replies)
This is a Nagios situation.
So i have a list of servers in one file called Servers.txt
And in another file called hostgroups.cfg, i want to remove each and every one of the servers in the Servers.txt file.
The problem is, the script I wrote is having a problem removing the exact servers in... (5 Replies)
Hi all,
I want to make an script using sed that removes everything between 'begin' (including the line that has it) and 'end1' or 'end2', not removing this line.
Let me paste an 2 examples:
anything before
any string begin
few lines of content
end1
anything after
anything before
any... (4 Replies)
hi, i have a fasta file like this:
>contig00003 length=363 numreads=45 gene=isogroup00001 status=it_thresh
GATTTTTTACCCTGGGAGTGAGGAGGACGAGGTTGAGGATGAAGAAAAGAGAAAGATGAAGAGGTTGAGGATGTT
GTAGTCGGCGGTGGAATTAGGGGGAGCCGGCGAGCCCAAGTATTTTGCAGAGGTGTCTTCATCATCCAAACAACA... (3 Replies)