And it shows 'creative' use of sed, cut, tr commands!
This solution works with this specific data sample, but it will fail badly if the data contains '~' or '^' characters. The presence of '~' characters could cause the cut command to slice things up incorrectly, and any '^' in the original text will be lost and new newlines inserted in their place.
Perhaps you realized this, but I just wanted to point it out in case others did not.
Hi,
In my korn shell script, I want to delete some particular text from a certain file...How can this be done? Is the below right?
ed $NAMES << EOF
echo "" > /dev/null
echo "${x} = " > /dev/null
echo "name = " > /dev/null
echo "adress = " > /dev/null
w
q
EOF (1 Reply)
Please help. Here is my problem. I have 9000 lines in file a and 500,000 lines in file b. For each line in file a I need to search file b and remove that line. I am currently using the grep -v command and loading the output into a new file. However, because of the size of file b this takes an... (2 Replies)
Need to delete a text block inside a file, that is marked with a start and an end pattern. Eg
do not delete
not delete
<tag1>
delete everything here
here
and here
and here...
<tag2>
do not delete
do not delete....
Believe sed is able to do this job but don't get it working.
... (1 Reply)
An ldif export needs some text removed from every line with a ; and :
Only the text (including the ;) from the ; to the : (but not the :) needs to be removed.
thoughts?
here's an example of one record:
dn: cn=me,ou=groups,dc=me,dc=com
nsUniqueId: 1255060a-46e511dd-803ce5f5-385faa0b... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I've never used awk before, but from what I've read, it will best suit what I'm trying to do. I have 2 files. I need to replace strings in file1 with the first column of a matching string in file2. Below are examples:
File1:
random-string1
1112
1232
3213
2131
random-string2... (7 Replies)
HI All, I need to search for a particular pattern input by the user in order to delete the line. My username.txt has
username@email.com:John:149.0.3.4:1
username1@email.com:Harry:149.0.3.4:1
username1@email.net:Alex:149.0.3.4:1
username1@email.edu:Nemo:149.0.3.4:1
The program i written
... (3 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
I am looking for the way to delete the block of data for example
original file
line1
line2
line3
line4
line5
input file
line2
line3
original file should contain
line1
line4
line5 (3 Replies)
Good Evening Folks -
Happy Friday!
I have a need to replace a certain string in all .csv files from "0.00" to "#Missing" in my /app/hyp_app/files directory.
Does anyone have a script they use regularly that's rather quick in performance? My files are rather large so I'm looking for a... (5 Replies)
I want to generate adler32 stings that converts into hex stings in python 2.7 (1 Reply)
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fmt
fmt(1) General Commands Manual fmt(1)NAME
fmt - format text
SYNOPSIS
width] [file...]
DESCRIPTION
The command is a simple text formatter that fills and joins lines to produce output lines of (up to) the number of characters specified in
the width option. The default width is 72. concatenates the arguments. If none are given, formats text from the standard input.
Blank lines are preserved in the output, as is the spacing between words. does not fill lines beginning with a period for compatibility
with Nor does it fill lines starting with
Indentation is preserved in the output and input lines with differing indentation are not joined (unless is used).
can also be used as an in-line text filter for the command:
reformats the text between the cursor location and the end of the paragraph.
Options
recognizes the following options:
Crown margin mode.
Preserve the indentation of the first two lines within a paragraph and align the left margin of each subsequent line with that
of the second line. This is useful for tagged paragraphs.
Split lines only.
Do not join short lines to form longer ones. This prevents sample lines of code, and other such "formatted" text, from being
unduly combined.
Fill output lines to up to
width columns.
WARNINGS
The width option is acceptable for BSD compatibility, but it may go away in future releases.
SEE ALSO nroff(1), vi(1).
fmt(1)