Script to move the first line of a file to the end
I'm rather new to scripting, and despite my attempts at finding/writing a script to do what I need, I have not yet been successful.
I have a file named "list.txt" of arbitrary length with contents in the following format:
I would like a script that will change the contents of "list.txt" to:
Basically, I need the first line moved to the end. I don't care whether it's in bash, awk, sed, perl, or whatever scripting language as long as it works.
Hi All,
I have written a korn script (code pasted below). It is giving the error while debugging "new.sh: syntax error at line 62: `end of file' unexpected".
I have re-written the whole code in VI and explored all help related to this error on this Unix forum and tried it. Somehow, I could... (7 Replies)
My input file is multiline file and I am writing a script to search for a pattern and move the line with the pattern and the next line to the end of the file. Since I am trying to learn awk, I thought I would try it.
My input looks like the following:
D #testpoint 1
510.0
D #testpoint2 ... (5 Replies)
Can somebody help me with a script ....
Read a file /etc/inittab
find the string starting with rcml and move it entirely towards the end of file.
rcml:2:once:/usr/sni/aix52/rc.ml > /dev/console 2>&1
I basically want to change the startup sequence. (2 Replies)
I have the following text format in a file which lists the question first and then 5 choices
after that the explanantion and finally the answer.
1.The amount of time it takes for most of a worker’s occupational knowledge and skills to become
obsolete has been declining because of the... (2 Replies)
Hi Folks,
I was given a task to append three IP's at the end of a specific (and unique) line within a file on multiple servers.
I was not able to do that with the help of a script. All I could was:
for i in server1 server2 server3 server4
do
ssh $i
done
I know 'sed' could be used to... (5 Replies)
Hey guys,
I want move a specific word from the middle of the text and move it the end of the file, which means I want the word to be deleted from it's line and moved to the end of file.
I know how to use sed for adding a word the end of file, but I don't know how to move words.
tnx (2 Replies)
Hello,
I'm new to this forum. I've been doing a lot of sed work lately and have found many useful tips on this forum. I've hit a roadblock in a project, though, and could really use some help.
I have a text file with many lines like the following, i.e., some lines begin with a single word... (3 Replies)
first of all I thought the argument DONE is necessary for all scripts that have or begin with do statements which I have on my script, However, I still don't completely understand why I am receiving an error I tried adding another done argument statement but didn't do any good.
I appreciate... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I'm works on Ubuntu server
My goal : I would like to read file line per line, but i want to started at the end of file.
Currently, I use instructions :
while read line;
do
COMMAND
done < /var/log/apache2/access.log
But, the first line, i don't want this. The file is long... (5 Replies)
My file (the output of an experiment) starts off looking like this,
_____________________________________________________________
Subjects incorporated to date: 001
Data file started on machine PKSHS260-05CP
**********************************************************************
Subject 1,... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: samonl
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gbemol
GBEMOL(1) General Commands Manual GBEMOL(1)NAME
gbemol -- graphical frontend for the Music Player Daemon (MPD)
SYNOPSIS
gbemol [-mclphf]
DESCRIPTION
gbemol is a graphical frontend for the Music Player Daemon (MPD), written in C and using GTK+ toolkit. It allows one to use MPD with a
user-friendly interface.
Features include an easy-to-use, tag-oriented library browser, a two mode playlist, cover art support (APIC tag only, for now), system tray
icon docking, song, album and artist information
More info at project homepage: http://gbemol.sourceforge.net/
OPTIONS -m Start minimized to tray
-f Start on full mode.
-c Start on compact mode
-l Start with library selected
-p Start with playlist selected
-h Help message
SEE ALSO
mpd (1)
Project homepage: http://gbemol.sourceforge.net/
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Andrea Colangelo <warp10@ubuntu.com> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is
granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version pub-
lished by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.
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