You might want to add something to delete the first line of the resulting file as the tr does a great job but also translates the first bracket into a blank line before your data so you end up with an additional line.
If the result is being pulled into a variable, there's no need for sed:
I want to collect the characters from 1-10 and 20-30 from each line of the file and take them in a file in the following format.Can someone help me with this :
string1,string2
string1,string2
string1,string2
:
:
:
: (7 Replies)
Hi,
I have a sql file and i need to extract the table names used in the sql file using a unix script. If i can extract the lines between the keywords 'FROM' and 'WHERE' in the file, my job is done. can somebody tell me how to do this using a shell script. If u can just let me know, how to... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I am comparing files with for mismatches using fgrep but I've run into a problem.
fgrep -vf $file1 $file2 > mismatches.dat
file1 and file2 both contain file names on each line
file1 has filenames which are up to 92 characters long and contain the "$" char.
example file name:... (2 Replies)
Hello all,
I am being dumb with this and I know there is a simple solution.
I have a file with the follwing lines
bc stuff (more)...............123
bc stuffagain (moretoo)............0
bc stuffyetagain (morehere)......34
failed L3 thing..............1
failed this... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I've looked at a few existing posts on this, but they don't seem to work for my inputs.
I have a text file where I want to extract all the text between two strings, every time that occurs.
Eg my input file is
Anna said that she would fetch the bucket.
Anna and Ben moved the bucket.... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I tried to adapt bartus's solution to my problem, without success. I want to replace all the occurences of this:
with:
, where something can contain an arbitrary number of balanced parens and brakets.
Any ideas ?
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Hello,
I need some help,
I got a CSV file called test.txt with this text in it :
08/02/2011;0,677;0,903;1,079;1,336;1,513;1,683
There's only a line and i need to copy theese numbers into variables :
0,677
0,903
1,079
1,336
1,513
1,683
The output file should look like this... (5 Replies)
This is my input file:
a|b|c(ef)|g|h(km)|p
My output file should look like:
a|b|ef|g|km|p
That is, pipe is the delimiter. The data within pipe must be displayed as it is but if it encounters any data within parentheses, then only the data within parentheses has to be displayed ( the data... (2 Replies)
Hello to all,
I'm trying to match only fields surrounded by double quotes that have one or more commas inside.
The text is like this
"one, t2o",334,"tst,982-0",881,"kmk 9-l","kkd, 115-001, jj-3",5
The matches should be
"one, t2o"
"tst,982-0"
"kkd, 115-001, jj-3"
I'm trying with... (11 Replies)