1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, I need to select the 3 lines above as well as below a search string, including the search string. I have been trying various combinations using sed command without any success. Can anuone help please. Thanking (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I need help on following script: I need to print the lines which are in bold letters in separate file as record string("|") emp_name; string("|") emp_id; decimal("|") emp_salary; string("|") emp_status; string("\n") emp_proj; end (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I am creating a script that sends log data from text files to a Database and I will like to read sugestions, as I think that there might be better ways to achive this than with my shell script; maybe perl or I don't know, but I will like to read some sugestions. The log is from... (10 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I have a file with special characters like this file1 691775025 ýÄqJ8^Z^Y{ 2004-08-23E P 100.00 45585025 0527541139295037342008-07-25OEP 100.00 6983025 ýB<9D>x<^F^Xb 2004-11-16SPP 100.00 I need a sed command to print the lines which don't have special characters.ie., only line 2... (9 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, Is there a way to get a range of lines from a file??? I want to search through a set of scripts and need to select the group of lines which do the FTP. Say, Line1 Line2 ftp SERVER user UNAME PASS send FILE_TO_BE_SENT close Line3 Line4 Line5 ftp SERVER1 user USER1 PASS1... (6 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Say I wanted to select the 5th line of a file without knowing the context of the file. Would I use grep and pipe it into wc or is there a more simple way of doing this? (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a file which contains five hundred thousand lines (500,000). I want to select lines of every 1000 lines from that file using AWK. I can think something like this in bash as below: for lines in {0..500000..1000} do ........ ........ done But I want to use AWK. I do not know how to... (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a set of data as below: The first field, $1 represent "|". The $3 (3rd field) and $6 (6th field) in my data file represent "number-molecule" which has arrangement as below: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ... (9 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi again, I need to further process the results of a previous manipulation. I have a file with three columns e.g. AAA5 0.00175 1.97996e-06 AAA5 0.01334 2.14159e-05 AAA5 0.01340 4.12155e-05 AAA5 0.01496 1.10312e-05 AAA5 0.51401 0.0175308 BB0 0.00204 2.8825e-07 BB0 0.01569 7.94746e-07 BB0... (6 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello to all. This is first post. Kindly excuse me if I do not adhere to any rules and regulations of this forum. I have a file containing some rows with three columns each per row(separeted by a space). There are certain rows for which first two columns have same value but the value in... (6 Replies)