Good morning,
Novice scripter in Unix here, and I've run into and sed task I can't quite wrap my head around. I'm pulling my hair out fast enough as it is and thought I would go to the knowledge bank.
I have a sorted file that I'm trying to trim down by deleting any line whose first few... (2 Replies)
I have a variable called PATH that contains a path
example: /Users/rtipton/Desktop/testusers/test
I need a sed command to set a variable called USER to the last directory name in that path
PATH="/Users/rtipton/Desktop/testusers/test"
and from that PATH i need USER to = test
I know sed... (4 Replies)
Hi All
I have a file for ex .log file which contain several lines within it.
I have to read that file contents & assing that to a variable. (2 Replies)
Hello!
Im trying to read file contents. Then, print out every line that has "/bens/here" in the file that was read.
cat /my/file.now | sed '/bens/here/p'
I keep getting the error asking if I need to predeclare sed?
What does predeclaring sed mean?
Thanks!
Ben (2 Replies)
I have a very large results file, and a list of filters
grep -wf filterlist.txt datafile.txt > outfile.txt
The above line works but is very slow and I'm wondering how to make it faster.
The items in my filterlist are only relevant to the first column. I don't care if any item in the... (1 Reply)
Can someone tell me how I can do this?
e.g:
a=$(echo -e wert trewt ertert ertert ertert erttert
erterte
rterter
tertertert
ert)
How do i replace the STRING with $a?
I try this:
sed -i 's/STRING/'"$a"'/g' filename.ext
but this don' t work (2 Replies)
Hello All,
i am a newbie and need some help when reading a csv file in a bourne shell script. I want to read 10 lines, then wait for a minute and then do a reading of another 10 lines and so on in the same way. I want to do this till the end of file.
Any inputs are appreciated
... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
Hereby wish to have your advise for below:
Main concept is
I intend to get current directory of my script file.
This script file will be copied to /etc/init.d.
A string in this copy will be replaced with current directory value.
Below is original script file:
... (6 Replies)
I want to do something like sed -n '/PATTERN/,+10p' and get the ten lines following PATTERN. However, this throws an "expected context address" with the sed that comes with OSX Lion. If that + is a GNUism, can I do this, or do I have to find another tool? (2 Replies)
I've tried numerous commands, but I am not sure how to use sed in a loop. This is what I have:
VARZ contains CARD_FILE_LIST and it also contains CARD_FILE_LIST2
so
echo "$VARZ"
CARD_FILE_LIST
CARD_FILE_LIST2
I have a file with 60 lines in /tmp/testfile it and I want those lines deleted... (3 Replies)
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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)