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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Removing a bunch of lines Post 302464974 by BeefStu on Thursday 21st of October 2010 11:08:06 AM
Old 10-21-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
Code:
nawk '/^ *0<</ {n=5}; n && --n{next}1' myFile

Thanks for the help. Just curious, why nawk and not awk is this statement not portable amongst different flavors of UNIX (ie Solaris, AIX, HPUX).

I also like to know if I got understand your code. I get the matching part.
The second part, is because I have four lines to delete you set your varable n=5, decrement it and delete a line at a time?

Very eloquant solutuon.
 

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ucblinks

ucblinks(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands					      ucblinks(1B)

NAME

       ucblinks - adds /dev entries to give SunOS 4.x compatible names to SunOS 5.x devices

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/ucb/ucblinks [-e rulebase] [-r rootdir]

DESCRIPTION

       ucblinks  creates symbolic links under the /dev directory for devices whose SunOS 5.x names differ from their SunOS 4.x names. Where possi-
       ble, these symbolic links point to the device's SunOS 5.x name rather than to the actual /devices entry.

       ucblinks does not remove unneeded compatibility links; these must be removed by hand.

       ucblinks should be called each time the system is reconfiguration-booted, after any new SunOS 5.x links that are needed have been  created,
       since the reconfiguration may have resulted in more compatibility names being needed.

       In  releases prior to SunOS 5.4, ucblinks used a  nawk rule-base to construct the SunOS 4.x compatible names. ucblinks no longer uses  nawk
       for the default operation, although  nawk rule-bases can still be specifed with the -e option.  The  nawk rule-base equivalent to the SunOS
       5.4 default operation can be found in /usr/ucblib/ucblinks.awk.

OPTIONS

       -e rulebase     Specify rulebase as the file containing nawk(1) pattern-action statements.

       -r rootdir      Specify rootdir as the directory under which dev and devices will be found, rather than the standard root directory /.

FILES

       /usr/ucblib/ucblinks.awk        sample rule-base for compatibility links

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
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SEE ALSO

       devlinks(1M), disks(1M), ports(1M), tapes(1M), attributes(5)

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