03-12-2009
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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a set of files of multi-line records with the records separated by a blank line. I needed to add a record number to the front of each line followed by a colon and did the following:
awk 'BEGIN {FS = "\n"; RS = ""}{for (i=1; i<=NF; i++)print NR,":",$i}' ~/Desktop/data98-1-25.txt >... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: RacerX
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I wanted to add specific text to each row in a text file containing three rows. Example:
0 8 7 6 5 5
7 8 9 0 7 9
7 8 9 0 1 2
And I want to add a 21 at the beginning of the first row, and blank spaces at the beginning of the second two rows. To get this:
21 0 8 7 6 5 5
7 8... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: hertingm
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear Folks :),
I am new to UNIX scripting and I do not know how can I insert some text in the first column of a UNIX text file at command promtp.
I can do this in vi editor by using this command :g/^/s//BBB_
e,g I have a file named as Test.dat and it containins below text:
michal... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Muhammad Afzal
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Running into a little problem with blank lines.
My file is of this format:
To number each line of the file i would use:
n=1
echo "$FILE" |
while read line
do
echo "$n) $line"
n=`expr $n + 1`
But really, i dont want to number the blank lines.
What i've tried is to use sed... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: omgsomuchppl
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Please let me know how to find text and print text and its previous line. Please don't get irritated few days back I asked text and next line. I am using HP-UX 11.11
Thanks for your help. (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: kamranjalal
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm pretty new to sed and awk, and I can't quite figure this one out. I've been trying with sed, as I'm more comfortable with it for the time being, but any tool that fits the bill will be fine.
I have a few files, whose contents appear more or less like so:
1|True|12094856|12094856|Test|... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: camwheel
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I want to do the following:
Extract some lines from different files and copy them into one file, with the first column being the line number. I do this with
cat file1 file2 file3 |grep 'xxx' |nl > output.file
Works fine. But if I want to add data of interest from a fourth file to the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: paracetamol
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I am trying to extract lines from a text file given a text file containing line numbers to be extracted from the first file. How do I go about doing this? Thanks! (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: evelibertine
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need some help. I would like to read in a text file.
Take a variable such as ROW-D-01, compare it to what's in one line in the text file such as PROD/VM/ROW-D-01 and only input PROD/VM into a variable without the /ROW-D-01.
Is this possible? any help is appreciated. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: xChristopher
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
The awk below produces an output with the original header and only the matching lines (which is good), but the output where the original line numbering in the match found on is used. I can not figure out how to sequentially number the output instead of using the original.
I did try to add... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: cmccabe
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