i want to cut all the entries from the /etc/passwd file in which the uid is> 500
for this i was writing this ,m quiet new to all this.. scripting
but on the 6th n 8th line ,, i hav to specify a line number .. to get the commnd working .. but i want to use variable i instead of that ,,... (2 Replies)
Hi Unix gurus
Basically i am searching for the pattern and getting the line numbers of the grepped pattern. I am trying to print the series of lines from 7 lines before the grepped line number to the grepped line number.
I am trying to use the following code. but it is not working.
cat... (3 Replies)
I don't quite know what I'm doing, so this simple script is proving a challenge.
Here is some pseudo code that doesn't work yet:
if tail -1 "WORKING.txt" >/dev/null | egrep "^NMBR=*" > /dev/null
then
curl -k 'http://www.myserver.com/log.cgi?input=$?'
echo "hi there"
fi
Purpose:... (3 Replies)
I have a file with ~200K lines, I need to delete 4K lines in it. There is no range.
I do have the line numbers of the lines which I want to be deleted.
I did tried using
> cat del.lines
sed '510d;12d;219d;......;3999d' file
> source del.lines
Word too long.
I even tried... (2 Replies)
Hi
I have a case where I am grabbing patterns and subsequent lines using
sed -n -e '/regex/{$!N;p;}'
This returns just the regex line when it is the last line of my file.
Now I may have even number of lines in some cases (regex never at end) and odd in very rare cases.
If the line... (6 Replies)
hi Gurus,
I need separate a file which is one huge line to multiple lines based on certain number of charactors. for example:
abcdefghi high abaddffdd
I want to separate the line to multiple lines for every 4 charactors.
the result should be
abcd
efgh
i hi
gh a
badd
ffdd
Thanks in... (5 Replies)
Hi I have a file with over a million lines (rows) and I want to split everything from 500,000 to a million into another file (to make the file smaller). Is there a simple command for this?
Thank you
Phil (4 Replies)
hi,
i have a file with many records and each record may or may not have 6 columns.
for example
file1 :
first second third fourth fifth sixth
first second third fourth fifth
first second third fourth fifth sixth
first second third fourth fifth sixth seventh eigth
if i cat the file and... (21 Replies)
Hi
i have requirement like below
M <form_name> sdasadasdMklkM
D ......
D .....
M form_name> sdasadasdMklkM
D ......
D .....
D ......
D .....
M form_name> sdasadasdMklkM
D ......
M form_name> sdasadasdMklkM
i want split file based on line number by finding... (10 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a requirement that i need to list only the missing sequences with a unix script.
For Example:
Input:
FILE_001.txt
FILE_002.txt
FILE_005.txt
FILE_006.txt
FILE_008.txt
FILE_009.txt
FILE_010.txt
FILE_014.txt
Output:
FILE_003.txt
FILE_004.txt
FILE_007.txt
FILE_011.txt... (5 Replies)