I've had a problem when running this against another file though. The file contents are as follows:
When I run your command, I get the following returned:
The problem is that objects
... are being displayed, instead of
Is there some problem when it's calculating double-figures?
I must the awk I'm seeing in these solutions is a bit beyond my current knowledge! Thanks to both.
Hi,
I have a file a.txt and it has values in it
Eg :-
I need to read through the file and find the number that is the greatest in them all.
Can any one assit me on this.
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I'm trying to figure out how to display a certain line in a text file. I keep getting references to Tail and Head, and I know how these work, but i'm lost on how to find say the third out of the five lines and display only that.
I thought maybe grep could help, but that doesn't seem likely.
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Hi,
I am using below command to display the number of line, but its returning no of lines along with file name.
But i want only no of line in the variable p.
Please help me on this?
p=`wc -l "text file"`
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Howdy.
I know this is most likely possible using sed or awk or grep, most likely a combination of them together, but how would one go about running a grep like command on a file where you only try to match your pattern to the second field in a line, space delimited?
Example:
You are... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
My file looks some thing like this,
File 1: -
A 10
B 30
C 5
D 25
E 72
F 23
now my requirement is to find the line with highest number in it, i;e the result should be
E 72
Thanks in Advance (1 Reply)
1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
Display from a csv file, birthdays that occur today. If there are no birthdays today, the next one in the year.
2. Relevant commands, code, scripts, algorithms:
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Hi all - I'm completely stumped by a script I'm working on...
The short version is I have a file called 'lookup' and in it are hundreds of names (first and last). I have a script that basically allows the user to enter a name, and what I need to have happen is something like this:
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