The OP says that sed leaves a \n in the "empty file". So its size will be 1 byte and your test will show not empty.
You could also use the stat command:
The stat command is not standard, and there are different versions:
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Quote:
Originally Posted by plawr
I have a program that takes a file in which I use a sed to remove some data that is not needed. If all of the data is removed. I want to grep for that in the file and print that there is no data left in the file. When I use sed, I replace a word with nothing but it still seems to leave a return carriage. Please give me some ideas on how to do this. Thanks!
Fix the sed command to delete the line instead of just the word.
AIX 5.3 / KSH
I have a Java application which creates a log file a.log. I have a KSH script which does the following action
cp a.log /directory2/b.log
> a.log
After this the file size goes to 0 as per "ls -l"
Then next time when the application writes into this file, the file size... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I am checking for a empty input file to do some further action , but I am getting exit status 0 in both the cases , for empty and non empty file both.
The value of $? is coming 0 in if part also and else part too.
#!/bin/ksh
if ]; then
echo "data"
# exit 0
echo "$?"
else... (4 Replies)
Hi everyone.
I am a newbie to Linux stuff. I have this kind of problem which couldn't solve alone. I have a text file with records separated by empty lines like this:
ID: 20
Name: X
Age: 19
ID: 21
Name: Z
ID: 22
Email: xxx@yahoo.com
Name: Y
Age: 19
I want to grep records that... (4 Replies)
Hi Expert,
Kindly request for your expertise in this matter.
I have below output:
12.125.124.173,xx1.common.com
12.125.124.174,xx2.common.com
12.125.124.175,xx3.common.com
12.125.124.176,
12.125.124.177,
12.125.124.178,
12.125.124.179,xx4.common.com
12.125.124.180,xx5.common.com... (8 Replies)
Hi there,
I'm just starting out with shell scripting and I'm trying to make a test where the script will basically run yum check-update to find out if the server has any available and if it does it e-mails me but if not it will just stop there.
I have it working if there are actually... (7 Replies)
Suppose i have the following data :
cat file.txt
12431,123334,55353,546646,14342234,4646,35234
123123,3535,123434,132535,1234134,13535,123534
123213,545465,23434,45646,2342345,4656,31243
2355425,2134324,53425,342,35235,23434,234535
3423424,234234,65465,,2344,35436,234524,234... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I'm writing a shell script and trying to grep a variable value, it works fine as long as there is a value in /tmp/list.out which is captured in $DSK but sometimes the file tends to be empty and that is where I'm having an issue while using grep which returns nothing. I know I can use something... (15 Replies)
Given a csv file with 40 columns with name, address, hometown etc.
I use a bash command in 1 line which:
1. gets the address column and pipes that to
2. grep the first digit and everything that follows
Command:
awk -F ";" '{print $19}' /Users/jb/Desktop/ReorderTempTotal.csv | grep -o "\d.*"... (7 Replies)
The below awk improved bu @MadeInGermany, works great as long as the input file has data in it in the below format:
input
chrX 25031028 25031925 chrX:25031028-25031925 ARX 631 18
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Discussion started by: cmccabe
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
zgrep
ZGREP(1) General Commands Manual ZGREP(1)NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression
SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...
DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code:
(-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the
standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.
If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.
EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified.
AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)
SEE ALSO grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)ZGREP(1)