Parameters passed from the command line into a script can be referenced in the script using $1, $2, $3.... In your case you just need to change INPUTFILE to $1 in your script.
I prefer to assign input parameters to meaningful variable names so that it's obvious when you use them what they reference. For instance:
And then you can use $inputfile where you have INPUTFILE in the script.
Do note that there cannot be spaces round the equal or you'll get an error.
Hi,
I have a file with duplicate lines in it. I want to keep only the duplicate lines and delete the non duplicates. Can some one please help me?
Regards
Narayana Gupta (3 Replies)
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I'm having trouble outputing from a sorted file... i have a looooong list of PVIDs and need to only output only those which occur 4 times!! Any suggestions?
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I have a tab-delimited file and want to remove identical lines, i.e. all of line 1,2,4 because the columns are the same as the columns in other lines. Any input is appreciated.
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Hi All,
I am trying to remove the duplicate entries in a file and print them just once. For example, if my input file has:
00:44,37,67,56,15,12
00:44,34,67,56,15,12
00:44,58,67,56,15,12
00:44,35,67,56,15,12
00:59,37,67,56,15,12
00:59,34,67,56,15,12
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Hi All,
I have a very huge file (4GB) which has duplicate lines. I want to delete duplicate lines leaving unique lines. Sort, uniq, awk '!x++' are not working as its running out of buffer space.
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hello, one, two
bye, goal
first, second, third, fourth
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Dear All,
I have a two-column data file and want to duplicate data in second column w.r.t. first column.
My file looks like:
2 5.672
1 3.593
3 8.260
...
And the desired format:
5.672
5.672
3.593
8.260
8.260
8.260
...
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Hi All,
I am storing the result in the variable result_text using the below code.
result_text=$(printf "$result_text\t\n$name") The result_text is having the below text. Which is having duplicate lines.
file and time for the interval 03:30 - 03:45
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