First off, Thank you all for the knowledge I have gleaned from this site!
Deleting Records from a text file... sed paragraphs
The following code works nearly perfect, however each time it is run on the log file it adds a newline at the head of the file, run it 5 times, it'll have 5 blank lines at the head of the file.
I have been unable to figure out why or how to prevent it.
Newlines should be after the record, not before.
Also, How big of file can sed handle like this??
The code: (I have made it into a here doc for example)
Thanks all
Hi everyone,
I have a file with multiple entries and I would like to remove the ones that contain either /A"> or /A/, where A can be any letter of the alphabet. Here's an example of the entries:
<Topic r:id="Top/World/Fran">
<catid>476</catid>
<link... (1 Reply)
I take the /etc/passwd file and print it out, but I only want the lines that end with sh.
I have
cat /etc/passwd | sed '/sh/!d' Which prints out all lines that have sh somewhere in it.
So I added $, which I thought matches the ends on lines, but its not working, like for example I have have... (5 Replies)
I need to generate exactly 102 duplicates in a file using sed.
Here's an example of my input:
Grid-ref = 1, 148
Grid-ref = 1, 311
Grid-ref = 1, 428
I need:
Grid-ref = 1, 148
Grid-ref = 1, 148
Grid-ref = 1, 148
Grid-ref = 1, 148
... repeated 102 times, then
Grid-ref = 1, 311... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I want to use the sed command to delete some lines in a file and I was wondering whether there is a possibility of knowing which lines are deleted, or at least which line numbers.
Thanks (4 Replies)
hi,
i am a SED newbie and i need some help. i have a log file as shown below. and i want to search specific Error Code, and fetch the whole paragraph.
...
...
.................
....ErrCode...
.................
...
...
...
.................
....ErrCode...
... (4 Replies)
FileA
NAME STATE CITY
---- ---- -----
abc ca ca
bcc ny ny
def nj nj
(3 rows affected)
Q1) I want to delete the second row with is ---- ---- -----.
Can delete 2nd row using following
sed '2d' FileA >FileB
but incase the second record is not ---- ---- -----.
then data will... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
Please can anyone help me as am deleting a line in a file with the below script:
sed '/"$value"/d' redirects.virgin-atlantic.com.conf > olist
where $value is a variable where the pattern to be matched is stored.
I am not getting any error also but the line containing the pattern... (2 Replies)
Hi There!
I've got a tab delimited text file (output from a software) to which I would like to delete specific strings from one of the columns. I have tried several sed codes, but they do not seem to work for me. I can manage to delete a specific word, but this is of no use, as I what I want to... (3 Replies)
Hi for all!
sorry guys for my dumb question, but I'm really need help
so,
we have file with many many fields, like this one:
201001002359 blablabla 87654321 201001002359 123,56 77272588300 blablabla/123 91823778544and I wrote awk command
awk '{if($6~/(2588300|2580000|2587021)$/)print}'so,... (8 Replies)
Dear all,
I face a problem I can not solve: I have different lines in a file and some of them are ending with ie "\r\n" and the others are ending with "\n".
My aim is to supress the string "\r\n" and concatenate that line with the following one.
For example:
Saying I have a file... (4 Replies)
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text::lorem
Text::Lorem(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Text::Lorem(3pm)NAME
Text::Lorem - Generate random Latin looking text
SYNOPSIS
use Text::Lorem;
my $text = Text::Lorem->new();
# Generate a string of text with 5 words
$words = $text->words(5);
# Generate a string of text with 2 sentences
$sentences = $text->sentences(2);
# Generate 3 paragraphs
$paragraphs = $text->paragraphs(3);
DESCRIPTION
Often when developing a website or other application it's important to have placeholders for content. This module generates prescribed
amounts of fake Latin text.
CONSTRUCTOR
"new()"
The default constructor, "new()" takes no arguments and returns a Text::Lorem object.
METHODS
"words( INTEGER )"
Returns INTEGER fake Latin words.
"sentences( INTEGER )"
Returns INTEGER sentences in fake Latin.
"paragraphs( INTEGER )"
Returns INTEGER paragraphs of fake Latin text.
THANKS
Thanks to the guys who pushed me off the cliff called comfort and into the scary world of Perl: James Duncan, Leon Brocard.
AUTHOR
Adeola Awoyemi (adeola@fotango.com)
SEE ALSO
L<WWW::Lipsum> and L<http://lipsum.com/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2003 Fotango Ltd. All rights reserved. <http://opensource.fotango.com/> This software is released under the same license as Perl
itself.
perl v5.10.1 2011-01-05 Text::Lorem(3pm)