BTW, what is the practical value of what you're trying to do? I really want to know, because I just wrote a shell script that does what you described, only way better, and I'm wondering how I can use it.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by thillai_selvan
This is a Perl script.
The file will contain the input data.
After executing the above code the output file will contain the lines which are all having length greater than 32 characters.
Why use an 11 line Perl script when you can use a 1 line shell script? I tested my method and it works perfectly. I also modified it so that it takes an arbitrary range of line lengths, as well as allowing the user to decide whether to write to the file:
Input:
a
b
b
c
d
d
I need:
a
c
I know how to get this (the lines that have duplicates) :
b
d
sort file | uniq -d
But i need opossite of this. I have searched the forum and other places as well, but have found solution for everything except this variant of the problem. (3 Replies)
Greetings,
I want to use a script (preferably awk) which determines if the first character in a line is double-byte (as in Japanese or Chinese) and deletes it.
For example:
(in the above quote, I see Japanese on my screen for two lines - with 2 characters in the first and 3 characters in the... (8 Replies)
I have a textfile containing text similar to the following pattern:
STRING1
UNIQUE_STRING1
STRING2
STRING3
STRING4
STRING5
STRING1
UNIQUE_STRING2
STRING2
STRING3
STRING4
STRING5
STRING1
UNIQUE_STRING3
STRING2
STRING3 (6 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a very huge file (4GB) which has duplicate lines. I want to delete duplicate lines leaving unique lines. Sort, uniq, awk '!x++' are not working as its running out of buffer space.
I dont know if this works : I want to read each line of the File in a For Loop, and want to... (16 Replies)
hey guys,
I tried searching but most 'search and replace' questions are related to one liners.
Say I have a file to be replaced that has the following:
$ cat testing.txt
TESTING
AAA
BBB
CCC
DDD
EEE
FFF
GGG
HHH
ENDTESTING
This is the input file: (3 Replies)
Hello,
I'm trying to figure out how to use sed or awk to delete single lines in a file. By single, I mean lines that are not touching any other lines (just one line with white space above and below).
Example:
one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
I want it to look like: (6 Replies)
i am having a text file like below
rama
surya
pandu
latha
singh
raja
i want to get the new file from 3 to 5
i.e
pandu
latha
singh
please help (1 Reply)
My first post, so don't kill me :)
Say i open some textfile with some example like this.
on the table are handy, bread and wine
Now i know exactly what is in and i want to separate and sorted it in terminal to an existing file with another 2 existing lines in like this:
table
plane ... (3 Replies)
I am very new to to shell scripting and facing a problem that I can't seem to solve. I want to write a bash script that edits file1.txt and saves it as file2.txt.
This is what the files should look like:
file1:
textline1
textline2
startCopy
copyThis
endCopy
textline3
textline4
file2:
... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: sandy90
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insdelln
curs_deleteln(3X)curs_deleteln(3X)NAME
deleteln, wdeleteln, insdelln, winsdelln, insertln, winsertln - delete and insert lines in a curses window
SYNOPSIS
#include <curses.h>
int deleteln(void);
int wdeleteln(WINDOW *win);
int insdelln(int n);
int winsdelln(WINDOW *win, int n);
int insertln(void);
int winsertln(WINDOW *win);
DESCRIPTION
The deleteln and wdeleteln routines delete the line under the cursor in the window; all lines below the current line are moved up one line.
The bottom line of the window is cleared. The cursor position does not change.
The insdelln and winsdelln routines, for positive n, insert n lines into the specified window above the current line. The n bottom lines
are lost. For negative n, delete n lines (starting with the one under the cursor), and move the remaining lines up. The bottom n lines
are cleared. The current cursor position remains the same.
The insertln and winsertln routines, insert a blank line above the current line and the bottom line is lost.
RETURN VALUE
All routines return the integer ERR upon failure and an OK (SVr4 specifies only "an integer value other than ERR") upon successful comple-
tion.
PORTABILITY
These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard, Issue 4. The standard specifies that they return ERR on failure, but specifies
no error conditions.
NOTES
Note that all but winsdelln may be macros.
These routines do not require a hardware line delete or insert feature in the terminal. In fact, they won't use hardware line
delete/insert unless idlok(..., TRUE) has been set on the current window.
SEE ALSO curses(3X)curs_deleteln(3X)