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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl or Awk script to copy a part of text file. Post 302366898 by frans on Friday 30th of October 2009 05:49:04 PM
Old 10-30-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by asandy1234
Thanks Frans for your prompt reply but I've a question which may sound stupid to you but still.
1) What is the extension of the file I should save? Is it .awk or .ksh?
2) Where do I replace the input and output file name in the code?

Thanks,
It's bash scripting so on the first line of the script you write #!/bin/bash If the path of your shell is /bin/bash, of course.
The full code :
Code:
#!/bin/bash
while read LINE
do
    echo $LINE | grep -o '<text>.*</text>' | sed -e 's/<text>//' -e 's/<\/text>//'
    (( I ++ ))
done < INPUTFILE > OUTPUTFILE

You could use variables for the input and output files if they have to be re-used later, else just replace 'INPUTFILE' and 'OUTPUTFILE' by your own file names.

P.S. no matter the extension ! make it executable with chmod +x and go.
Last edited by frans; 10-30-2009 at 06:52 PM.. Reason: P.S.
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shells(4)							   File Formats 							 shells(4)

NAME

       shells - shell database

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/shells

DESCRIPTION

       The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser-
       shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root.

       A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by  the  routines
       which search the file. Blank lines are also ignored.

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       /bin/tcsh,  /bin/zsh,  /sbin/jsh,  /sbin/sh,  /usr/bin/bash,  /usr/bin/csh,  /usr/bin/jsh,  /usr/bin/ksh,  /usr/bin/pfcsh,  /usr/bin/pfksh,
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