1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Is there an easy way to delete the first so many lines in a log file? like I have a log file that has 10000 lines, i want to just get rid of the first 9000. (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have a file & always I need to remove or delete last 2 lines from that file. So in a file if I have 10 lines then it should return me first 8 lines. Can someone help me? (4 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

How do I delete all the lines after the line containing text ***DISCLOSURES*** . I want to delete this line too. Thank you (2 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi everyone, I have text files that I want to delete lines from. I have searched through this forum for quite some time and found examples of both awk and sed. Unfortunately, I was not able to successfully do what I want. Well to some extent. I did manage to delete the first 15 lines from each... (5 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a file with 65 sets of 35 coordinates, and would like to isolate these coordinates so that I can easily copy the coordinates to another file. The problem is, I've got a 9 line header before each set of coordinates (so each set is 44 lines long). There are a zillion threads out there about... (3 Replies)

6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

How I can delete 100 lines anywhere in a file without opening a file and without renaming the file. (11 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

We have a server that logs transactions to a file. I want to write a script that will delete the first 50 lines of the file daily without renameing the file or moving the file. (8 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello Community, sorry iam from germany and my englisch is not so well. iam searching for less then 4 hours on the web for a solution of my problem. i have a proxy-log-file and want to delete lines wicht matches on two words. example of the line in the logfile: now i want to delet... (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I have a file like: 26-07-2011 sunz02 message1 26-07-2011 sunz02 message2 26-07-2011 sunz02 message3 15-07-2011 sunz02 message1 15-07-2011 sunz02 message2 15-07-2011 sunz02 message3... (5 Replies)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Anybody can help me to delete the last 3 lines from a text file via sed under SunOS 5.8? Thanks Aldar (4 Replies)