Hello,
I need to insert a line (like a header) as the first line of a very huge file (about 3 ml rows). I am able to do it with sed, but redirecting the output and creating a new file takes quite some time. I was wondering if there was a more efficient way of doing it?
Any help would be... (3 Replies)
Hi,
My File 'temp.txt' contents are like this.
<Managers>
Mng={{FIL|FAVEI.mng|111}|15.000000|17.000000|17.000000|
Mng={{FIL|FAPSV.mng|222}|3.000000|0.000000|0.000000|0.000000|
Mng={{FIL|FAVIF.mng|333}|8.000000|8.000000|8.000000|8.000000|... (3 Replies)
hi..i wanted to know is there any way to take input from the user and copy that a particular line number in a particular file
for eg . i wanted to create acl in squid at line number 2400 in squid.conf file
so the user gives an input like acl inetblock src 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0
so is there... (4 Replies)
say I want to insert "this is a test" as the first line into file A, besides
echo "this is a test" > /tmp/tmpfile
cat /tmp/tmpfile fileA >> /tmp/result,
is there any simple way I can do it? thanks (7 Replies)
how to insert a line of text that is next to the current line(file pointer pointing to) in the file ?? :wall:
ex:
suppose a file named 'Sample' has the following content in it.
this is to
give clear idea about
the problem
if file pointer is pointing to the first line then i want to... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I need to insert a new line containing the string "QUERY" above every 5 lines.
The below piece of code inserts a new line after every 5th line
awk '{print $0} !(NR%5) {print "QUERY"}'
sed 'n;n;n;n;G;' --> I do not know how to give "QUERY" string here
But I need to insert it before... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a huge file(size more that 5GB).
I want to do some manupulation with the records and write to another file.
As the size of the file is huge and there is a space constraint in that directory, I want to delete that record from first file after writing it in to second file.... (3 Replies)
I have a test file that I want to read and insert only certain lines into the
the table based on a filter.
1. Rread the log file 12 Hours back Getdate() -12 Hours
2. Extract the following information on for lines that say "DUMP is
complete"
A. Date
B. Database Name
C.... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am using UNix Sun OS sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise
My intention is to insert a line of text after 13th line of every file inside a particular directory.
While trying to do it for a single file , i am using sed
sed '3 i this is the 4th line' filename
sed: command garbled: 3... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: gotamp
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shtool-subst
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)