1. Shell Programming and Scripting

to find log files modification, i want to select all the lines of a file behind a string (found by grep ?). :rolleyes: (6 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have gone through all the threads in the forum and tested out different things. I am trying to split a 3GB file into multiple files. Some files are even larger than this. For example: split -l 3000000 filename.txt This is very slow and it splits the file with 3 million records in each... (10 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello Friends, Im trying to split a string. When i use first method of awk like below i have an error: method1 (I specified the FS as ":" so is this wrong?) servert1{root}>awk -f split.txt awk: syntax error near line 2 awk: bailing out near line 2 split.txt:... (5 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I am quite new in shell, and would like to pick up information in a file. The file structure is like this faor all data: T 50 2 2.5 is this a candy number color price I know how to pick up a line. I do this: head -linenumber candyfile.doc | tail -1 But I would... (6 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Experts. I'm stuck with the below AWK code where i'm trying to move the records containing any special characters in the last field to a bad file. awk -F, '{if ($NF ~ /^|^/) print >"goodfile";else print >"badfile"}' filename sample data 1,abc,def,1234,A * 2,bed,dec,342,* A ... (6 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey guys, I've been trying to find an answer to this, and I've been reading up on awk as much as possible, but I'm at a loss at the moment. I'll start off by saying I'm trying to learn, so forgive me if I ask questions about your answers. Here is what I'm trying to accomplish. I have a long... (8 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi, i am trying to write a script to generate ouput in the following format: ##### buildappi abcd_sh nodebug.##### ##### buildappi ijk_sh nodebug.##### The given string is as follows: xtopSharedDLLs = "abcd_sh def_sh ijk_sh " \ + "jkl_sh any_sh... (15 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello What command can i use to split a tab delimited txt file into two files base on the occurrence of a string my file name is EDIT.txt The content of file is below XX 1234 PROCEDURES XY 1634 PROCEDURES XM 1245 CODES XZ 1256 CODES It has more than a million record If there is... (16 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi , The scenario is like this, i have a large text files (max 5MB , about 5000 file per day ), Inside almost each line of this file there is a tag 3100.2.22.1 (represent Call_Type) , i need to generate many filess , each one with distinct (3100.2.22.1 Call_Type ) , and one more file to... (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a unix file text.txt with below content aaaaa bbbbbbb cccccccccc As of 2013 ddddddddd eeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeee fffffffff As of 2014 gggggggggggg hhhhhhhhh iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii As of 2016 Now I've to split this file with each file ending with line 'As of' . Please suggest how can I do... (6 Replies)