I'm a bit new to regex and sed/perl stuff, so I would like to ask for some advice. I have tried several variations of scripts I've found on the net, but can't seem to get them to work out just right.
I have a file with the following information...
# Host 1
host 45583 {
filename... (4 Replies)
Hello, I have only recently begun with awk and need to write this:
I have an input consisting of a couple of letters, a space and a number followed by various other characters:
fiRcQ 9( )
klsRo 9( ) pause
fiRcQ 9( ) pause
klsRo continue 1
aPLnJ 62( )
fiRcQ continue 5
... and so on
I... (7 Replies)
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
The assignment is to convert a text table to csv format. I've got the cleaning up done, but I need to swap two... (0 Replies)
I have some text:
<date>some_date</date>
<text>some_text</text>
<name>some_name<name>
and I want to transform it to smthng like that:
some_name on some_date: some_text
I've tried sed:
sed 's/<text>\(.*\)<\/text>
<name>\(.*\)<\/name>/\2 - \1/'
but it says unterminated... (13 Replies)
Hi
I'm quite new with linux.
Very simple, I need to swap every 2 lines in a file.
Example
INPUT:
a a a
b b b
x x x
y y y
s s s
t t t
OUTPUT:
b b b
a a a
y y y
x x x
t t t (5 Replies)
Hi All,
Sorry if this question has been posted elsewhere, but I'm hoping someone can help me! Bit of an AWK newbie here, but I'm learning (slowly!)
I'm trying to cobble a script together that will save me time (is there any other kind?), to swap two fields (one containing whitespace), with... (5 Replies)
Data file example
I look for primary and * to isolate the interesting slot number.
slot=`sed '/^primary$/,/\*/!d' filename | tail -1 | sed s'/*//' | awk '{print $1" "$2}'`
Now I want to get the Touch line for only the associate slot number, in this case, because the asterisk... (2 Replies)
How can you swap the first 4 line only, the rest will stay the same.
thanks
#!/bin/sh
line=4
awk -v var="$line" 'NR==var {
s=$0
getline;s=$0"\n"s
getline;print;print s
next
}1' fileko.tx
.
desired output: (8 Replies)
Hi there,
I have a text that I'm trying to format into something more readable. However, I'm stuck in the last step. I've searched and tried things over the internet with no avail.
OS: Mac
After parsing the original text that I won't put here, I managed to get something like this, but this... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Kibou
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read
read(1) General Commands Manual read(1)NAME
read - read a line from standard input
SYNOPSIS
var ...
DESCRIPTION
reads a single line from standard input. The line is split into fields as when processed by the shell (refer to shells in the first field
is assigned to the first variable var, the second field to the second variable var, and so forth. If there are more fields than there are
specified var operands, the remaining fields and their intervening separators are assigned to the last var. If there are more vars than
fields, the remaining vars are set to empty strings.
The setting of variables specified by the var operands affect the current shell execution environment.
Standard input to can be redirected from a text file.
Since affects the current shell execution environment, it is usually provided as a normal shell special (built-in) command. Thus, if it is
called in a subshell or separate utility execution environment similar to the following, it does not affect the shell variables in the
caller's environment:
Options
recognizes the following options:
Do not treat a backslash character in any special way.
Consider each backslash to be part of the input line.
Opperands
recognizes the following operands:
var The name of an existing or nonexisting shell variable.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
determines the internal field separators used to delimit fields.
RETURN VALUE
exits with one of the following values:
0 Successful completion.
>0 End-of-file was detected or an error occurred.
EXAMPLES
Print a file with the first field of each line moved to the end of the line.
while read -r xx yy
do
printf "%s %s
" "$yy" "$xx"
done < input_file
SEE ALSO csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1), sh-posix(1).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE read(1)
11-16-2008
