Hi,
I have some log files created in the following fashion
Ex:
file name modified date
1) s.log1 01-jan-08
2) s.log2 02-jan-08
3) s.log3 03-jan-08
4) s.log4 04-jan-08
Now I want to have the latest 2 logs and delete the others.
Can you tell me the one liner /... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have research data, which is organized to 100 folders numbered 00-99. I have many sets of 100 folders, for different values of initial parameters. For some reason, the computer that ran the program to gather the data, didn't always create a unique seed for each folder. I anticipated that... (1 Reply)
Hi Gurus,
I have a file say for ex. file1 which has 3500 lines in it which are different account numbers and another file (file2) which has 230000 lines in it. I want to read all the lines in file1 and delete all those lines from file2 which has that same pattern as in file1. I am not quite... (4 Replies)
I have a space delimited text file with 1,000,000+ columns and 100 rows. I want to delete columns 2 through 5 (2 and 5) included from the text file. How do I do that? Thanks. (3 Replies)
HI,
My input file contains below data:
DFHDR
12345110
1,200
2,-100
1,100
2,123
12345110
1,300
2,200
DFTLR
In the above data, the first line and last lines should be remove as well as the lines in which contains 110 as position(6,7,8 position) should also be removed,
How we... (0 Replies)
hi
i have a set of similar files. i want to delete lines until certain pattern appears in those files. for a single file the following command can be used but i want to do it for all the files at a time since the number is in thousands.
awk '/PATTERN/{i++}i' file (6 Replies)
I have a header-detail file that goes like this:
SHP00288820131021110921
ORDER0156605920131021110921INMMMMFN
DETAIL0004 4C2Z 10769 AAFC 0000009600000094 4C2Z 10769 AAFC 0000672107 OIL
DETAIL0002 ER3Z 14300 E 0000001300000012 ER3Z 14300 E 0000672107 OIL... (3 Replies)
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unbuffer
UNBUFFER(1) General Commands Manual UNBUFFER(1)NAME
unbuffer - unbuffer output
SYNOPSIS
unbuffer program [ args ]
INTRODUCTION
unbuffer disables the output buffering that occurs when program output is redirected from non-interactive programs. For example, suppose
you are watching the output from a fifo by running it through od and then more.
od -c /tmp/fifo | more
You will not see anything until a full page of output has been produced.
You can disable this automatic buffering as follows:
unbuffer od -c /tmp/fifo | more
Normally, unbuffer does not read from stdin. This simplifies use of unbuffer in some situations. To use unbuffer in a pipeline, use the
-p flag. Example:
process1 | unbuffer -p process2 | process3
CAVEATS
unbuffer -p may appear to work incorrectly if a process feeding input to unbuffer exits. Consider:
process1 | unbuffer -p process2 | process3
If process1 exits, process2 may not yet have finished. It is impossible for unbuffer to know long to wait for process2 and process2 may
not ever finish, for example, if it is a filter. For expediency, unbuffer simply exits when it encounters an EOF from either its input or
process2.
In order to have a version of unbuffer that worked in all situations, an oracle would be necessary. If you want an application-specific
solution, workarounds or hand-coded Expect may be more suitable. For example, the following example shows how to allow grep to finish pro-
cessing when the cat before it finishes first. Using cat to feed grep would never require unbuffer in real life. It is merely a place-
holder for some imaginary process that may or may not finish. Similarly, the final cat at the end of the pipeline is also a placeholder
for another process.
$ cat /tmp/abcdef.log | grep abc | cat
abcdef
xxxabc defxxx
$ cat /tmp/abcdef.log | unbuffer grep abc | cat
$ (cat /tmp/abcdef.log ; sleep 1) | unbuffer grep abc | cat
abcdef
xxxabc defxxx
$
BUGS
The man page is longer than the program.
SEE ALSO
"Exploring Expect: A Tcl-Based Toolkit for Automating Interactive Programs" by Don Libes, O'Reilly and Associates, January 1995.
AUTHOR
Don Libes, National Institute of Standards and Technology
1 June 1994 UNBUFFER(1)